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"Custom Colt New Service
AN HISTORIC ENGRAVED .45 ACP COLT NEW SERVICE REVOLVER, NO. 259048 FOR 1919, CARRIED BY TEXAS RANGER CAPTAIN M.T. "LONE WOLF" GONZAULLAS Extensively customised for Ranger Gonzaullas, the revolver is shortened at barrel, with high fore-sight added, engraved overall with scrolls, shortened butt, nickel and gold plated, trigger guard cut-away at front (in the manner of Fitz-Gerald), oversized rosewood grips, with its brown tooled leather holster by HUNTER 2 3/8 inch (6.1 cm.) barrel Modifications non-factory. Accompanied by a singed letter from J.F. "Buster" Kreuz, an Austin, Texas gun-smith, noting his recollection of working on this revolver for Captain Gonzaullas."
I like it. I like it alot. It's a little bulldog. And, with those pre secret service grips it would be a great CC rig.
FWeidner, the front of the trigger guard being removed is simply for quicker access to the trigger. You don't have to try and stab your finger between the guard and the trigger when milliseconds count.
kimwcook wrote:I like it. I like it alot. It's a little bulldog. And, with those pre secret service grips it would be a great CC rig.
FWeidner, the front of the trigger guard being removed is simply for quicker access to the trigger. You don't have to try and stab your finger between the guard and the trigger when milliseconds count.
I understand that might be the logic behind the modification, and I know that a revolver isn't gonna go off DA on a light touch of the trigger, but I envision myself shoving that piece into a pocket or waistband, or even drawing it from the holster, and being the owner of a newly peforated right thigh or buttock.
Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
Lot's of knowledgable folks swore by the "Fitz" modification. And Lone Wolf would definitly known of which he spoke. For that reason alone, I would never fault those who carried handguns so modified. Like others have said, not my cup of tea, but, I haven't spent my adult life depending on firearms to survive, as did many of the Fitz proponents.
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
Yes, he had multiple guns altered this way. He told me "at close range, it's who's the fastest to get the shot off". He meant real close. He also said, " if the bad men are a good distance, use a carbine". Here is another custom set of revolvers "Lone Wolf" used. They are in the "TEXAS RANGER MUSEUM" in Waco, Texas.
Looks almost like the one , we where shooting while I was studying with Col.Askins his was not engraved but was "Fitzed" with a bobbed hammer, seem to remember it being either 38-40 or 44-40 sweet belly gun, the Ole man carried one that had been done up on a S&W 1917.
Normally feel better about Mr.Jordan's rendention, ust a small sliming of the one side
but not my cup of tea. That shortened butt would give me problems.
