Old Colt

[loiblb]

A friend telling me for few years about an old gun that was given to him years ago. We finally got together at the range, he is not a shooter.
In the case was a small very thin Colt with 1903 on it. Grip safety and small sights like a 1911 but no hammer. Very little bluing walnut grips with Colt medallions. Another surprise was a bag of .380 rounds.
After looking it over and the action smooth and slide being very tight fitting to the frame. We decided to shoot one round at the falling plates and it shot fine. We both got to liking how well it handled and shot.

 

[sceva]

If it's a .380 it is a Colt Mod 1908 pocket Auto; In .32 Auto they were the model 1903.

They show up regularly in the old Noir detective movies, a favorite of Bogart's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Model_1903_Pocket_Hammerless

 

[Acorn]

One of the coolest handguns made IMO.

 

[mistermills357]

Sounds great, I have a Colt 1911 .45, and they make good guns.

 

[RSIno1]

I have my grandfathers Type 2 in 32acp. He bought it new in 1909.
From the Wiki article. Looks like the 380 is very rare.

Variants
Type I: Integral barrel bushing, 4 inch barrel, no magazine safety, Serial numbers 1 through 71,999.[2]
Type II: 32 cal separate barrel bushing, 3 3⁄4 inch barrel; 1908–1910, SN 72,000 through 105,050.[2]
Type II: 380 cal separate barrel bushing, 3 3⁄4 inch barrel; 1908–1910, SN 001 through 6250 [2]
Type III: integrated barrel bushing, 3 3⁄4 inch barrel; 1910–1926, SN 105,051 through 468,789.[2]
Type IV: integrated barrel bushing, 3 3⁄4 inch barrel, magazine safety.[2]
Type V: integrated barrel bushing, 3 3⁄4 inch barrel, military sights, magazine safety on both commercial and "U.S. Property" variations. SN 468,097 through 554,446.[2]
There was an M1903 version with a military Parkerized finish, which is otherwise the same as the Model IV, SN 554,447 through 572,214.[2]