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American western arms serial numbers5/28/2023 Dougan and Jim Hoobler (Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 2012). Assembly and polishing were done in-house, according to the book, Great Western Firearms Company by John C. Barrels were supplied by Weatherby, which also provided testing facilities. Frames came from Arwood Precision Investment Casting-the same company initially used by Ruger. In fact, many parts were interchangeable, with exceptions such as the hammer, which was reconfigured to accommodate a Christy Gun Works floating firing pin (later, a Colt SAA fixed firing pin hammer was offered as an $8 option). The first guns, blued or casehardened and priced at $97.50, were assembled in May 1954 and admirably duplicated the Colt SAA. Wilson, who had no previous firearm manufacturing experience, was company president. in Los Angeles, to produce a full-scale, American-made replica of the SAA. Consequently, in 1953 (prophetically, the same year that Bill Ruger introduced his Single-Six), former aircraft engineer William Wilson, with investors including Los Angeles Rams owner Dan Reeves, established the Great Western Arms Co. C olt’s 1949 announcement to discontinue its Single Action Army (SAA) inspired a few entrepreneurial individuals to fill the void left by the Peacemaker’s departure.
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