{"id":3475,"date":"2015-07-20T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T22:56:30","slug":"umarex-colt-saa-co2-bb-airgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/umarex-colt-saa-co2-bb-airgun.html","title":{"rendered":"Umarex Colt SAA CO2 BB airgun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Umarex Colt .45?…Let’s skeedadle!!!<\/p><\/div>\n

Having a problem with empty soda can desperados? Have BB gun – Will travel.\u00a0 Wire Gordon; Denver.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

For those of you too young to make a connection to the \u201cHave gun – Will travel\u201d reference, it comes from the opening of a weekly horse opera of the same name.\u00a0 The show aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963 and starred Richard Boone as the title character, Paladin.\u00a0 Paladin was a gun for hire and that gun was his trusty Colt Single Action Army.\u00a0 The new Umarex Colt SAA<\/a> would look right at home in Paladin\u2019s fancy black holster with the silver knight chess piece embellishment.\u00a0 Flat out \u2013 this is one well designed and awesome replica!\u00a0 When I first laid eyes on it at the SHOT Show, I had to have one.\u00a0 The size and weight are very close to the original and the operation is identical to the Colt SAA, right down to the individual cartridges that the shooter loads with a single BB and then places into the cylinder through the loading gate on the right side of the revolver.\u00a0 CO2<\/sub> cartridges fit under the left grip panel which contains a really nice design feature of a permanently mounted hex key for turning the piercing screw.\u00a0 No more misplaced hex keys!<\/p>\n

They currently come in 2 flavors: a nickel-like finish with faux ivory grips and a \u201cblued\u201d finish, also with the ivory grips.\u00a0 The 4 \u00be\u201d barrel has an enclosed ejector rod underneath that is used just like on the original powder burner.\u00a0 The smooth bore BB barrel ends about \u00be\u2019 from the muzzle and Umarex saw fit to put \u201crifling\u201d into that last \u00be\u2019 to add even more realism.\u00a0 The individual metal cartridges are a nice touch as well, but do make it a bit tedious to load, so you may want to order up extra cartridges from www.airgunsofarizona.com<\/a> for quicker reloads.<\/p>\n

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A most handsome tribute to Col. Colt’s invention<\/p><\/div>\n

I like everything about this licensed replica and it would make a fantastic training tool to introduce a new shooter to proper safety\/loading of single action revolvers.\u00a0 The action is so smooth and easy to cock and there is even a half-cock position of the hammer for loading and unloading that blocks the trigger, just like the original.\u00a0 To meet modern liability requirements, there is also a manual safety located on the bottom of the frame in front of the trigger guard.\u00a0 It is a very unobtrusive sliding switch that locks the trigger movement and doesn\u2019t spoil the lines of the gun.\u00a0 The left side of the frame carries the original Colt markings and the right side has the obligatory warnings and safety messages seen on all airguns plus a unique serial number.<\/p>\n

In a side-by-side comparison with a real Colt SAA, about the only telltale giveaway on the Taiwanese made replica would be that the hammer does not fully seat into the recoil shield when uncocked. \u00a0It is a minor thing and takes nothing away from this fantastic replica in my opinion.<\/p>\n

The approximately 400fps velocity produced by this revolver is plenty for decimating those no-good, low-down soda can desperados as well as any other plinking targets you can come up with.\u00a0 As a backyard shooter this gun is second-to-none, right down to the fact that you could line up six targets and take \u2018em out like Clint Eastwood in \u201cHang \u2018Em High\u201d by holding the trigger down and fanning the hammer.<\/p>\n

If you appreciate fine firearm replicas like I do and have a hankerin\u2019 to practice the art of fast draw, or just want a really fun plinking gun, connect with the folks at Airguns of Arizona and they can fix you up pardner.\u00a0 Umarex has a pretty extensive line up of realistic firearm replicas as well as their own brand of BBs and CO2<\/sub> and in the near future I\u2019ll showcase another of their historic guns.\u00a0 Until then, I\u2019ll just saddle up my old stick pony and ride off into that sunset.\u00a0 Take care y\u2019all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having a problem with empty soda can desperados? Have BB gun – Will travel.\u00a0 Wire Gordon; Denver.\u00a0 For those of you too young to make a connection to the \u201cHave gun – Will travel\u201d reference, it comes from the opening of a weekly horse opera of the same name.\u00a0 The show aired on CBS from…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}