Standard Catalog of Colt Firearms. Rick Sapp

destination – cost as follows:

      o Company Executives – add $50.00

      o Buffalo Bill, Bat Masterson, etc. – add $200.00

      o Colt family members – add $100.00

      o Retype Service: A previously prepared Colt historical letter can be submitted for verification and reissued in the current owner’s name – $35.00

      o Retypes for custom engraved firearms – $50.00

       ARCHIVE PHONE SERVICE

      This premium service enables our customers to obtain all the pertinent information on 1st Generation Single Actions up to the 343,000 serial number range over the phone. This does not include the Bisley Model. A historical document containing the information will follow within two to three weeks. A MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover Card is required as a method of payment for this service. This expedited service is also offered on the 2nd Generation Single Actions. However, we require one day to process these requests.

      • 1st Generation Single Action Army Phone Service: $150.00 – up to serial range of 343,000 (see Premium Pricing for additional charges)

      • Expedited Phone Service – applies to all other models – Standard letter fee plus additional $100.00: Requires three days to process (see Premium Pricing for additional charges )

      • Dates of Manufacture – $25.00

      • Identification Service – $50.00: This service provides novice collectors and customers with identification and general information on a specific firearm

      • Memorabilia Identification Service - $25.00: This provides novice collectors and customers with identification and general information and approximate value on a specific Colt memorabilia item

       DISCOUNTS

      A 10% discount will be given to all members of the Colt Collector’s Association. (This discount may not be combined with quantity discounts.)

       QUANTITY DISCOUNTS:

      • Requests for 5-10 historical documents qualify for a 10% discount

      • Requests for 11-20 historical documents qualify for a 15% discount

      • Requests for more than 20 historical documents qualify for a 20% discount

       REFUND POLICY

      If we have records available and can attempt the research, but do not locate the firearm in question, a research fee will apply as follows:

      • $75 & $100 requests will be charged a $50.00 research fee

      • $200 requests will be charged a $100.00 research fee

      • $300 requests will be charged a $100.00 research fee

      No fee will be charged for Single Actions serialized under 343,000 (which include the Phone Service) that are non-record guns. Please make check or money order payable to Colt Archive Properties. MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover Card are accepted for all services

       GUN COLLECTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

       BY JOHN CARADIMAS, EXCERPTED FROM WWW.M1911.ORG

      Once you begin collecting, you may find that index cards with handwritten notes serve just as well to keep track as anything. As your collecting expands, however, as you meet additional collectors and consider tracking purchases and sales prices, the index cards may become more confusing than helpful. At that point, you may want to turn to a specialized computer program.

      Several programs have been developed especially for gun collecting: NM Gun Collector, Gun Inventory, GunTracker, GunSafe and KollectAll, among others. [Editor’s Note: These and other collection management programs can be located for download or purchase through any web search site such as Google or Dogpile.]

       KOLLECTALL

      This is a generic “Collection Management Software.” It allows you to organize anything that you may be collecting, from books to stamps to guns, with everything in between. The program comes with some predefined “collections,” including guns.

      Unfortunately, by trying to be all things to all collections and collectors, this program lacks several features of the more specialized programs. This generic philosophy shows up with the lack of dedicated help fields, fields that have predefined values from which to select. Also, the data entry form is organized in a strange way, where the various gun-related fields, which should be grouped together, are spread all over the form, in no rational order, at least for a gun owner. Being the “Jack of all trades” is not always the best approach.

      On the other hand, KollectAll allows you to summarize the value of your collection, and to add images of any gun stored in its file. Unfortunately, the images are only loosely connected to the related item, which only shows you the image of that particular item after you have clicked the “Images” tab. From then on, however, you can browse all the images you have stored in the program’s files. Finally, the program can show you a list of all your guns.

       GUN SAFE

      Gun Safe is a dedicated gun collection organizer program, made by Kevin Kelly. Kelly is a shooter and a collector, and he has used his experience to good effect when developing this program.

      From the program’s main menu, you can select your next step. The data entry screen is very well organized with drop-down menus helping you fill in the various fields. There is a huge manufacturer’s list, a list of all possible calibers, a configuration list (single action, double action, pump, semi-auto, etc.), a type list (pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine-gun, etc.), a stock/grips list (with various stock or grips to select from), a finish list (blue, stainless, Parkerized, etc.) and more.

      What’s significant is that all these lists are customizable, so you can alter them to suit your needs. For example, if one is collecting only 1911 pistols, you can edit the manufacturers list, to include only 1911 manufacturers. You can edit the caliber list to include only those calibers that a 1911 is available in, and so on. I liked that feature. Such lists exist also in the other data entry screens. In the same screen the user can fill in other useful details, such as manufacturing date, purchasing date, condition, if he has the original box or not, if the item is a C&R or not, where the gun is stored, what accessories he has for that particular firearm and more.

      Gun Safe has separate forms for entering purchasing and sale information. There is a list of “Transaction Kinds,” from which you can select how the gun was acquired (gun shop, on-line shop, auction, etc) and enter details about the seller. Likewise, there is a separate form for the sale of the gun while another allows you to maintain detailed records of when that particular firearm was maintained and what was done to it at that time. Still another form allows you to enter notes for that particular firearm, very useful for keeping important information, such as favorite loads.

      The program has a final data entry screen in which you can enter pictures of that firearm. An unlimited number of pictures can be entered, which however are not directly associated with that particular gun. Even though the program will show you the picture associated with that gun first, it will also continue and show you all other pictures entered in its database, something not very intuitive. You can also, of course, ask to see a complete list of your collection.

      Apart from a few minor idiosyncrasies, the program is very nice and should cover the needs of the average gun owner. What serious collectors will miss is the ability to see the total value of your collection, something Gun Safe does not offer.

       GUNTRACKER 2.4