A nickel-plated 4 specimen once owned by Chicagos Al Capone went for a cool $109,080 at the Christies Antique Arms, Armour and Collectors auction in 2011. But do you know how to properly use them? The 1908 Sears Roebuck catalog lists it at $14. cartridge did not catch on with civilians until well into the 1920s. Blued Colt Police Positive revolver; six inch barrel, "Release: Al Capone's colt .38 Police Positive Revolver sells for 67,250/$109,080/75,656", "COLT'S MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. REVOLVERS: DOUBLE ACTION, SWING OUT CYLINDER", The Colt Revolver in the American WestPolice Positive .22 Target Model G, The Colt Revolver in the American WestCutaway Police Positive .38 Model, M1892/1894/1895/1896/1901/1903/1905, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colt_Police_Positive&oldid=1115340276, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Fixed iron; half-moon blade front, V-notch rear, This page was last edited on 11 October 2022, at 00:14. This Colt Police Positive Target is a beautiful piece of history, one I think is often overlooked. Barrels were 4", 5", and 6", caliber was .38 Special. Detective Special: This is Colts classic snubbie. No purchase necessary. The .38 S&W is a slightly wimpy looking cartridge that packs more pep than one would think by just looking at it. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism, State Agency: Fortunately, the intervening decades have seen a great deal of improvement in handgun ergonomics. Deployed military should use stateside address. All in all, the Police Positive Special proved to be a practical enough revolver. THE POLICE POSITIVE MARK V. While it is designed for target shooting and perhaps small game hunting, the revolver would serve well for double-action firing practice. Gun #: 907834240. Not stagey with the mid-hitch I remember from most old Colts but with quite a bit of takeup. (Full article at link) Bankers' Special [ edit] And the third was a stainless-steel variant called the Detective Special II, or D-SII, manufactured from 1997 to about 1999. He served as editor of two of the industry's most respected annuals: Standard Catalog of Firearms and Gun Digest. The metal is in good condition except for the bluing. Associated taxes and fees are the responsibility of winners. Here is what handgun hunters can expect from this big-bore X-Frame revolver. Learn the difference between revolvers and semi-auto pistols and what makes them different. Full Details. Mikey Hartman, Lt. Col. CALIBER 32 POLIC, Serial #63827, .38 S&W, 6" barrel with an excellent, bright bore. It was designed primarily for sale to federal, state or local law enforcement agencies. It was made with 4", 5" and 6" barrels and came with either wood or hard rubber grips. Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources, State Agency: The 6-inch barrel gave it a nicely balanced look and feel. Match .38 Special wadcutters. SN 282808. It came as an iteration of the Colt Police Positive. The Police Positive Special was intended primarily for sale to law enforcement agencies and enjoys the distinction of being Colt's most widely produced revolver design with over 750,000 built. New York Department of Environmental Conservation, State Agency: You may have also noticed that I have mentioned .38 Colt New Police and to expand upon that, it is essentially Colts proprietary version of .38 S&W that typically featured flat-nosed bullets. Subscriber Services. The Police Positive Special action was made almost unchanged from 1907 to 1995. To protect the privacy and security of winners, names will not be made public. For the sake of today, we will be pulling a unique Colt revolver from my personal collection that does not get as much notoriety as it should, the Colt Police Positive Special chambered in .38 S&W. This revolver features a classic Colt revolver design with a steel construction, rich blued finish, fully intac, The Colt Police Positive is a small-frame, double-action revolver features a six-round cylinder. Gun #: 954405348. COLT Double Action POLICE POSITIVE SPECIAL .38 Special Caliber C&R REVOLVER Colt's Widely Produced Revolver Design Here we present a C&R Colt Police Positive Special made in 1916 b .Click for more info. The Police Positive was somewhat lighter than either the Smith & Wesson Military and Police or the Colt Army Special, and with its mild-mannered cartridges (.32 Colt New Police and .38 Smith & Wesson), the revolver was easy to shoot. About 25 years before Colt brought the curtain down on the Police Positive Special 1969 to be exact it was listed at $93.50 (blued). Colt named this new security device the "Positive Lock", and its nomenclature ended up being incorporated as a partial namesake for the new revolver. I had taken a nicer one in trade and decided to pass the old one on to someone who would appreciate it. Alabama Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. | Lets be serious. The Colt Police Positive Special was the Police Positive with a lengthened frame and cylinder to allow using longer, more powerful cartridges like the .38 Special. The Colt Police Positive is a small-frame, double-action revolver featuring a six-round cylinder, chambered for either .32 or .38 caliber. Finally, I sold it back to Phillip Peterson, who took pity on me and gave me 30 percent of what I originally paid him for it. double action? Maybe you already have one or one of each issue? [4] The Positive was itself incrementally modified in 1908, forming the basis for Colt's Police Positive Special model. Colt Police Positive Mfg 1923 38 Special. It has a 6-inch barrel marked "POLICE POSITIVE SPECIAL .32-20 W.C.F." The original Police Positive is doomed to languish forever in the shadow of its more desirable offspring, and theres nothing that can be done about it. For those reasons, rifles and handguns firing these cartridges were very popular with varmint hunters, trappers, and farmers. This Police Positive Special was made in 1916, so the "Coltwood" plastic grips are a later replacement. Features include fixed sights, a square butt, and 4-, 5- or 6-inch barrel lengths. Let us know all of your thoughts in the Comments below! My three loads were Winchester 158-gr. Police Positive Special: This was basically a Police Positive with a 1/4-inch longer frame to accommodate the .38 Special and .32-20 cartridges (in addition to the .32 and .38 New Police and their S&W counterparts). The Police Positive saw the light of day in 1905, when it debuted as an improvement on the old square-butted Colt New Police double-action six-shooter introduced in 1896. Make sure to watch till the end. The gun is scarce, and it was only made from 1955 to 1956. Full Details More from this Seller. All entries must be received by giveaway end date. I think this old gat is valid and unique in its own right but would you yourself purchase one? Taurus has redesigned this sporting pistol for performance. West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, State Agency: Mississippi Deptartment of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks, State Agency: The second, made in 1993, featured a barrel shroud and neoprene grips. Very good overall condition. Bore and action are excellent. It deserves a spot on the list of stack-and-a-half micro 9 millimeters. Federal's new.30 Super Carry pistol cartridge offers the equivalent of 9mm Luger performance with recoil and muzzle blast comparable with 9mm. But another Colt Police Positive version is, in my opinion, among the most useful and beautiful of all Colt revolvers, and that honor belongs to the Police Positive Target in .22 Long Rifle (also in various .32s, although I've never seen one). The cylinder of the Police Positive rotated in the clockwise direction, the opposite of firearms maker Smith & Wesson's competing models. Although this makes sense in a hard-duty gun, it did in my opinion remove a lot of the classic Hartford charm from the gun. $ 25. By comparison, the larger blued Official Police was going for $110, while the also-heftier competition Model 10 was bringing S&W a somewhat friendlier $76.50. It sports a 4" barrel and a blued finish. Ever a canny competitor in the firearms industry, Colt missed no opportunity to score points over its arch rival, and began a marketing campaign which accentuated this detail. Winners must respond within 30 days of receiving notification or an alternate winner will be selected. California Department of Fish & Wildlife, State Agency: Idaho Department of Fish & Game, State Agency: Contest open to U.S. residents only. 226 Williams Ln. Courier: This was a 3-inch version of the first-issue Agent chambered in .32 Colt/S&W and .22 LR. Thus, my Colt Police Positive Special is made to fire the 38 New Police cartridge which is basically 38 Smith and Wesson. Subscriber Services. Yet another stainless variant, the Magnum Carry, was introduced in 1998 and was chambered in .357 Magnum. Employees and agents of Publishers Development Corp. are not eligible. 1 Image (s) Colt Official Police 38 Special. The rear notch is about 0.10 inch. Colt Model Agent, Cobra, Detective Special Diamondback Fac Manual Reproduction. As I mentioned above the Third Issue Colt Police Positive Special was manufactured from 1946 to 1976. [6] Both of Colt's New Police rounds were actually slight redesigns of existing S&W cartridges, the .32 S&W Long and .38 S&W with the bullet noses flattened, as Colt resisted providing its main competitor with any free advertising. Guns International Sellers Terms and Agreement CONTACT INFORMA, Vintage Colt Police Poitive. It was introduced in 1907 and was produced until 1973. Action is in-time, but cycles sluggishly due to dried oil in inner channel of cylinder. Joseph Von Benedikt shows his custom 500 and how well it shoots. State Agency: I think the Colt Police Positive Target is the perfect size .22 for many reasons. In todays market, the .32 version actually seems more desirable than the .22. While the forward-curving grip frame felt a bit odd in my hand at first, it is a finely made and--thanks in great part to the longer barrel--well-balanced revolver. Yet today, the Police Positive isnt remembered for the gun that it was but rather for the guns it inspired. [2], Colt's Positive Lock safety, the innovation responsible for the gun's introduction, functioned by preventing the firing pin from striking the primer of the cartridge unless the trigger was deliberately pulled. A Practical PerformerMy brother Vincent's apparently bottomless gun collection contains a .32-20 Police Positive Special made in 1916 that is in very-good-plus condition. The first, made from 1955 to 1973, had an unshrouded extractor. Its basically a round-butted Police Positive Special chambered in .32 Colt or .38 Special with a 2-inch barrel. Joseph VonBenedikt is with Joel Hodgdon to talk about the improved accuracy and long-range potential of the already reliable Core-Lokt ammo line. "Pre-war revolver made in 1926. c1903 mfr COLT NEW POLICE .32 C&R REVOLVER Double Action Gangster LE Nickel Early-20th Century Law Enforcement Sidearm Here we present a C&R Colt New Police Revolver, made in 1903 by the, Colt Police Positive Special in 32-20 wcf 6-shot revolver (Manu. The Police Positive Special was the model that Colt would use for all small frame revolvers up until the last of them were discontinued in 1995. 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