Colt Ace

[Subdeacon Joe]

Sailor training with a Colt "ACE" at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn New York - 1941

Between April 1931 and July 1941, a total of 10,745 "ACE" pistols in .22 LR were manufactured by Colt.

The majority of the “ACE” pistols were purchased for use by US Military Organizations and R.O.T.C. units.

Fort Hamilton is still open, and its current mission is to provide the New York metropolitan area with military installation support for the Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.

Thanks John Klear for his assistance

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[Timothy]

I wouldnt mess with him cool post!

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

That sailor dude surely appears to be righteously focused.  

 

And I wish I had ME a Colt Ace...  

[Pat Riot]

Notice the trigger finger position?

It only took Hollywood, what, 60 or 70 years to follow suit and stop their bad displays of gun handling and idiot bravado. 

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

I've had a few Colt ace pistols over the years, all shot realy well. All I have now is a Colt made conversion.

[Warden Callaway]

I have a Colt ACE converscon kit.  It's a little hard to keep running because rhe chamber is a piston that drives the action.   It's better not to use wax coated bullets.  I haven't shot it in years. 

 

[Dapper Dave]

They kept them in service a long time - I shot a Colt ACE in Navy Boot Camp in 1986, 5 rounds only to familiarize and we were not allowed to check the target. After that I never saw another one, as we had Colt and Remington-Rand 1911s on board ship in 45 ACP. We didn't move to the Pizza Pistol until well after I left active duty. 

[Sedalia Dave]

On 6/20/2025 at 5:47 PM, Dapper Dave said:

They kept them in service a long time - I shot a Colt ACE in Navy Boot Camp in 1986, 5 rounds only to familiarize and we were not allowed to check the target. After that I never saw another one, as we had Colt and Remington-Rand 1911s on board ship in 45 ACP. We didn't move to the Pizza Pistol until well after I left active duty. 

 

I remember shooting one in Navy Bootcamp back in 1982. Don't remember how many rounds but if you scored high enough with it, you got to attempt to qualify with a 1911 in 45. 

 

I didn't make the cut. Pistols were not my thing back then. 

[Dapper Dave]

First time I qualified with the 1911 was on board ship, and I was a Gunners Mate!

[Three Foot Johnson]

My dad bought this re-issue in '78 - I inherited it in '88 when he passed on, and still have it.

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

28 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

My dad bought this re-issue in '78 - I inherited it in '88 when he passed on, and still have it.

Those 4 magazines are worth more now than he paid for the whole gun.

[Three Foot Johnson]

8 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

Those 4 magazines are worth more now than he paid for the whole gun.

One of them came with the gun, of course, and the other three I bought from eBay auctions years ago. The two on the left are pitted from being in a storage unit or something for several years - I've long forgotten the story the seller told me, but they cleaned up nicely and function fine. A hundred to a hundred fifty each for the mags is common today. I can't really tell what the price sticker says, but it looks like 263.95. The first number has to be a 2 or 3, and it doesn't look like the other #3, so...