![]() Now don't misunderstand me, I love the feel of the Colt, and quite honestly the slant of the grip frame is a little different than that of the Ruger…this positions the end of the barrel slightly higher in the shooting position, which allows a shooter to get the barrel up and on target a bit faster when competing. Having used the Colt in my earlier years of competition (I started out as a thumber), I found myself working constantly on them to keep them in "competition form". If you ask any of the old shooters like myself, they can probably show you scars from this era. In the fifties and sixties it was shoot-till-you-hit, and everyone was fanning two or more back up shots at the target for good measure. This allows the shooter now to dry fire without fearing the firing pin will fall out of the hammer, and most importantly, removes the chance of taking a chunk out of your fanning hand or finger when you happen to mis-time your recovery fanning motion or second shot in some events. Most important was putting the firing pin in the frame instead of the hammer. Overall, coil springs lightened the action and decreased wear and tear on the internal parts, providing better response from the weapon, and reliability far superior to the flat springs. The hand spring was also subject to these undesirable problems as well, and using the coil spring here eased the pressure on the star or ratchet at the rear of the cylinder, and smoothed the action even more. ![]() Removing the spring part of the sear stopped the breakage and loss of tension problems that were prevalent in the Colt and clones. Ruger also changed the lock-up system to a solid locking bolt or sear dropping into a narrower notch that is deeper and more adapted to fast action shooting. Coil springs throughout the gun instead of the old flat springs smoothed the action, eliminated the "bounce" that was prevalent in the action with flat springs, and virtually removed the breakage factor, a frequent happening of the early competitor. Much of this success was credited to the major changes Bill Ruger built into his gun. However, after some hard competition and many repairs later, the practical shooter realized that the Ruger version of the single action gun seemed to hold up better under stress than the Colt, Great Western, Hawes, and other colt clones. 45" was the gun best suited for the western style of fast shooting, since it was the gun depicted in the TV westerns and movies of that era. Fast Draw Resource Center - Fast Draw Gunsīack in the fifties, when Fast Draw as we know it today, started, most of us thought the "Colt.
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