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I happen to collect anything chambered for the .41 caliber cartridge. For me, it is just a nostalgic caliber that’s not made any more. They don’t even produce the ammunition in the United States now, and if you want to fire one of the old .41s, you have to build the ammo yourself. I know of some guys who load the .41 for cowboy action shooting, but it’s still an obsolete caliber. I just kind of like it and want to try to collect one of every model Colt produced in that caliber. Some of them are quite rare, too, and then you had the .41 rimfire and the .41 Long, but Colt didn’t offer a .41 Long after about 1923. So the history goes back quite a long way for me. And no, they never made a semi-auto in .41 caliber.

RS: You make collecting firearms sound like a pretty fascinating hobby.

Ed: Well, that is what it is for me, because it connects me to a fascination with the cowboy era. Along with that is the Single Action Army revolver and whatever, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill Cody, but everyone goes their own way for whatever personal reason.