The One I Shouldn’t Have Traded
The Colt Police Positive Target .22 LR Some guns stay with you even after they’re gone. For me, that’s the Colt Police Positive Target chambered in .22 Long Rifle. Not because it was the fanciest piece I ever owned, or the most powerful, but because it came from my Uncle Bob. He gave it to me when I was a scrawny teenager, just starting to understand the balance between respect and responsibility that firearms demand. I shot my first tin can with that revolver and, later, my first squirrel right through the eye at 15 yards. But like a lot of young men coming back from the service in the late ’60s, I wasn’t thinking about legacy, I was thinking about speed. So, I swapped that old Colt for a box of motorcycle parts and a bottle of Jim Beam somewhere in the back alleys of San Francisco. I’ve regretted it ever since. Colt Police Positive - Target A Bit of Colt History The Colt Police Positive revolver has a long and storied history. First introduced in 1905, it was designed for ...