A special run of only 503 SAAs were made in. 44 Special with the shortest barrel length. Standard barrel lengths remained 4 ¾”, 5 ½” and 7 ½”, but for some strange reason you couldn’t buy a. Again it’s interesting to note in the first run, only 506 had been chambered for. Those were merely different names for the same cartridge. Interestingly, in 1st Generation production, only 25 had been made as. 38 Special became a standard Peacemaker caliber. 44 WCFs (Winchester Centerfires) were not offered. 45 Colt, but in the latter half of the 20th century gun buyers’ tastes in calibers had changed. Naturally the initial chambering offered was. However, instead of taking up where serial numbers left off 15 years before they started again plus added an SA suffix as in 0001SA. In fact Colt merely pulled the tooling from storage to begin production. There were virtually no changes in the model from the last ones made circa 1940. No wonder also that keen minds at Colt saw sales opportunities, and therefore in 1956 reintroduced the SAA. No wonder then that the firearms collecting fraternity and just about every TV watching kid focused on the Colt SAA revolver almost totally to the exclusion of every other Old West handgun. In fact I can’t remember ever seeing either a good-guy or bad-guy with anything but a Peacemaker. There were far too many to detail here but it is safe to say in the holster of each and every one of those “little-screen” stars there resided a Colt SAA revolver. Anyone who lived through the decades of the ‘50s and had a TV must remember the vast assortment of western programs. They weren’t considering the new phenomenon of television.

Colt saa second generation