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Very nice. Ours is from the 40s and is a great shooter. But looks no where near as good as yours!
Colt Woodsman;1st Issue (1928).
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Yes, the mainspring housings will interchange, but, if you stumble across one that is stripped, you need to install a high speed hammer spring.
Also, you need to replace the recoil spring; High speed recoil springs are twisted in the opposite direction of the standard velocity mainspring for easy identification.
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I don't know anyone who does not like their Woodsman.
Anyone you let shoot your Woodsman will like it.
John Moses Browning really did this one right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Woodsman
Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either [boxer] Gene [Tunney] or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner. - Ernest Hemingway 1938
Anyone you let shoot your Woodsman will like it.
John Moses Browning really did this one right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Woodsman
Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either [boxer] Gene [Tunney] or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner. - Ernest Hemingway 1938
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FWIW, the change to the new mainspring housing (backstrap) and mainspring were made at the factory in 1932 at SN 83790, so any guns with the new housing and older serial numbers were updated after market. Colt sold the new springs and housings to individuals and gunsmiths for many years.
The new mainspring was not required directly because of the pressure of the new high velocity ammo but because of its stronger brass case. Prior to the development of the high velocity ("high speed") Long Rifle ammunition, many .22 cases were copper; the ammo companies found that those rounds tended to burst at the rim if the pressure was increased, so they went to brass for the HV ammo. But brass is a harder metal and more resistant to the crushing needed to ignite the priming, hence the stronger mainspring for the Woodsman.
JIm
The new mainspring was not required directly because of the pressure of the new high velocity ammo but because of its stronger brass case. Prior to the development of the high velocity ("high speed") Long Rifle ammunition, many .22 cases were copper; the ammo companies found that those rounds tended to burst at the rim if the pressure was increased, so they went to brass for the HV ammo. But brass is a harder metal and more resistant to the crushing needed to ignite the priming, hence the stronger mainspring for the Woodsman.
JIm
