Time for my most recent pick and my only shooter I actually haven’t been able to fire yet thanks to the National ammo shortage, my Colt Army Special in .38 Special
Easily the most comfortable to hold gun I have in my collection, it molds perfectly to my hand.
The cool thing about this one is even though it’s the most common type of revolver in the US, it’s known as the Colt Detective Special now, but prior to 1920 it was known as the Army Special as it was made for a contract sent by the Army, but they never got fielded cause the .38 SPL round and the Colt M1917 was chosen instead.
I found out thanks to the serial # and Colts official website that this revolver was one of those made in 1917 for that contract. As it’s dated 1917 on their tracking page.
Only a real handful of Army Special revolvers were made before they were renamed and rebranded to the Police/ Detective special respectively and became the most common police issued revolver in the US. And made them up to about 1970 before auto pistols became the next big thing.
I really just want some fucking .38 SPL please guys just a single box.