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Question about Colt SAA Quickdraw

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#1 ·
What exactly sets the "Quickdraw" apart from other M1973 Colt pistols? Is it the grip? Barrel length? I've tried some searches on the Interwebs to no avail.

Many thanks.
 
#6 ·
I was researching guns that were used in movies and came by info on the movie Tombstone. The pistols used by Doc Holliday are listed as a Colt Lightning in .38 Long Colt and a Colt SAA Quickdraw in .45 Long Colt. I wasn’t familiar with the term either but found the one website that offered the idea that it’s another name for the Civilian Model. Perhaps it is a reference to the holster and if that’s the case the article is at best misleading and at worse inaccurate.
 
#7 ·
The final word on the guns in the movie Tombstone is a book by Peter Sherayko. He played Texas Jack, was the armorer and headed up a group of extras that hang together and do historic movies. Book list almost every gun that was used, original or repro, why a gun was carried by whom and what they had to do to get the originals up and running. I have the feeling that the Quickdraw is a name given a model by a repro company. I have the book but it is 8 hours away at home while I'm on a project site.