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Arctic US Air Force COLT WOODSMAN ultra rare! 1 HR

Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,082 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
This one is ending SOON!!!


http://www.GunBroker.com/item/683978097


This will be the "impossible gem" in someone's collection.
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  • SperrySperry Member Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beautiful Colt, but it is missing the wear and tear one associates with a beloved shooter.

    Wonder if the new owner is going to shoot it or leve it in the safe?
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,082 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm sure it will be locked up and sealed away....and will remain hidden away by the new owner when they get it. These things are seriously impossible to find and I'm betting there are a few people that will kick themselves when they learn this one went up for sale and they missed it.


    I've got a few things I'd like to have that would be safe queens if I got them. I kind of want to tuck a Python away, but I want one of them that I can actually shoot without taking a ding on it's value. The wartime 1911's are a must have at some time in my life. We have one pretty cool one that was Larry's grandfather's gun. He actually shot the Cullman County Sherriff with it....Larry's aunt said "Papa was a scoundrel" when she sold it to me.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very Nice


    I would bet a dollar that some supply sargent stole that gun or some officer did.
    RLTW

  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Sperry
    Beautiful Colt, but it is missing the wear and tear one associates with a beloved shooter.

    Wonder if the new owner is going to shoot it or leve it in the safe?


    If a certain bid is successful, it will be tested.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,082 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:D][:D][:D]

    Well....if you get it you have to record yourself shooting it so I can share it.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
    [:D][:D][:D]

    Well....if you get it you have to record yourself shooting it so I can share it.


    Will do, Kasey.

    I'll take it out with the two pre-war elephant ear Match Target Woodsmen, and see if we can get a Colt Collector purist to cry in his soup.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder if it could even cycle/function in sub zero temperatures? Must have had special lubricants to fire in those conditions.

    serf

    http://www.chuckhawks.com/firearms_cold_weather.htm

    Yet few are capable of retaining their viscosity when exposed to sub-zero temperatures. In the freezing weather, lubricants begin to bind and set, becoming gummy. As the mercury continues to fall, some lubricants can even begin to freeze, rendering them almost as hard as epoxy. In fact, one of the only gun lubricants currently available for extreme cold conditions is a blended vegetable and synthetic based, biodegradable product from United Bio Lube called "Bio Arctic," which has been tested by the army to function at temperatures below -50 Fahrenheit. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, "Bio Arctic" is only available wholesale to gun manufacturers and for government procurement, leaving the majority of shooters "in the cold."
  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You might let Chuck know that we had two Infantry Brigades that operated in Alaska, along with the Alaskan National Guard (Eskimo Scouts). Somehow we managed to shoot everything from M14s/ M16s/ M60s to 155mm artillery without Bio Artic.

    But the coldest I have every been in the field was an air temp of -65F.
  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oh, man, that one is tempting and it isn't a prewar Single Action, "must stay strong"!!!!!!!!!!!!! [:I]

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,082 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know it will be the last and only one I will see in my lifetime. Its so sad to know something is so rare it will never happen along again and not be able to keep it.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,253 ******
    edited November -1
  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's jumping in the last few minutes.
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