Colt Signature Series Parts

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I have an 1861 Navy Colts Signature series I purchased in the early 2000s.Unfortunately it is missing a screw underneath the trigger guard that holds the guard to the pistol and , also is missing one of the screws used to hold an optional rifle stock to the pistol. I want to find those two screws without damaging the value of the piece. Done a lot of online research and am confused as to looking to Uberti ,Pietta or some other source of authentic 3rd Generation "Signature Series" parts. Can anyone help please?
 
Uberti screws are 'original equipment' since the 'Colt' 2nd and 3rd gen revolvers were made using Uberti parts. :p
 
be carefull if they don't work you call Dixie or Colt Parts I bought w/out knowing anything 2 hammer hands from Colt parts and they were way too big. Dixie says piettas are piettas/ ubertis are ubertis and colts are colts. I would think uberti parts woud fit 3rds
 
colthoarder said:
I've used Uberti screws on a couple of my second Generation Colt BPs, Uberti screws should work just fine on your Sig series.
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Metric threads:confused: I have never really checked any of my 2nd or 3rd gens. I would have thought standard US threads. I guess I have something to do today.:)
 
Knock yourself out. Of course metric threads! These 'Colts' were assembled from Uberti (made in Italy) parts. Did you really think that Colt made them? :rolleyes:
 
zullo74 said:
Knock yourself out. Of course metric threads! These 'Colts' were assembled from Uberti (made in Italy) parts. Did you really think that Colt made them?
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I little research on your part may enlighten you to the truth.:rolleyes:
 
The 'TRUTH' is all 2-3 generation Colt guns were assembled from Uberti parts.
The research is out there. Lou Imperato assembled the guns. ;)
 
zullo74 said:
The 'TRUTH' is all 2-3 generation Colt guns were assembled from Uberti parts.
The research is out there. Lou Imperato assembled the guns.
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You speak in half truths.

Some Uberti raw parts were used on both 2nd and 3rd gens. Lou had nothing to do with C series 2nd gens.
 
I forgot that SOME of the C series was built from Uberti parts by Val Forgett of Navy Arms.

Excerpt from History of Colt Black Powder Reproductions by Dennis Adler

"Within the 2nd Generation, the first or "C" Series, consisted of the standard 1851 model, with serial numbers 4201 through 25099, produced from 1971 through 1976, with those in the 1971-73 serial number range having been built by Colt's from Forgett's components."
"Beginning in 1974, Imperato replaced Val Forgett as Colt's supplier of components to build their percussion revolvers."
 
zullo74 - you're interpreting Adler's words differently than I do. I think he very clearly says Forgett and Imperato were parts suppliers, and Colt's Manufacturing were the builders. Do you disagree with that?
 
I do not disagree with that for the C series, but for the rest I do. Regardless, the parts were still Uberti (and metric).
 
Gentlemen,Gentleman.....thanks for all the responses. They really helped. The Uberti web page directed me to MidwayUSA.com...it seems Uberti doesn't deal parts directly from their web page. Anyway, MidwayUSA shipped immediately and their (Uberti's) screw fit like a glove...BTW , you guys are the experts but I was under the impression that ,regarding 3rd gen, Uberti made most of the parts and Colts Black Powder of Brooklyn finished them here ...In any case , thanks again!
 
Ouch. You mean my 3rd Generation Colts weren't made in Hartford on 1862 machinery? Does that mean that the signature on the backstrap isn't really Sam Colt's?
Damn. I'll never look at them the same way again.
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To some and many collectors-- the 3rds Have greater value than the piettas and uberti. i retail bp guns. I have sold 2- 3rd gen 51 navys/ 1 49 pocket and one 1860 army at less or equal to ones priced fairly on other sites in the last year.. All the 3rds I sold were meant to be shot except 1--- 1851 navy that came w/ extra accessories box. The man that bought it had 12 to 15 bp guns(Experienced and wise to thess) and he wanted it to give to his grandson. Now I'm finding these pretty guns harder to find. What a lot of folks here don't like is that they are not real Colts. But- they don't make them anymore and they say Sam Colt on barrel and nothing is mentioned about BLACK POWDER ONLY-- So do not discredit them even though some do.

WBH
 
Logoth said:
... I was under the impression that ,regarding 3rd gen, Uberti made most of the parts and Colts Black Powder of Brooklyn finished them here
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Colt's Black Powder ... of Brooklyn?

Is/was that some kind of Colt subsidiary, or a completely separate company from Colt's Manufacturing? The farthest the real Colt's has moved from the original blue onion domed factory in Hartford is about 10 miles west, to West Hartford.
 
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