Safari Arms?

safari arms

Hi,I have a repro #3 model colt dragoon revolver complete with shoulder stock & folding leaf rear sight made by Safari Arms sometime in the early 1980's.I believe the company was bought by Olympic arms in 1987.Not the best quality repro Colt( wrong colour blue) I've ever seen but functions well.Got me interested in bp shooting.:) Cody
 
I am almost positive it is a import firm for Italian repro guns. I am pretty sure that my first flinter was a hawken style by Safari Arms, back in 1980. No better and no worse than any other Italian gun.

cheers mooncoon
 
A friend of mine has an over/under 12 gauge folding shotgun made in ITALY ,marked SAFARI ARMS . I found that SIR sold them in their 1992/93 catalogue.
 
My first muzzleloader, way back when, was a Safari arms Hawken .45 Cal. They were one of the generic Italian makes, and mine seemed as good as any other. I had a dealer swear up and down that he had once had a front stuffer marked Safari Arms on one side and Lyman on the other.
 
lol ok then, thanks guys,

any knowen problems with them for you guys that have owned them?? like flints not sitting far/low enough or loose barrel etc etc etc anything like that?
 
Percussion

I had one(54 cal percusion) for two years and did a lot of hunting with. I took about three deer and one very large mulie buck. It would misfire no and then for no apparent reason. The accuracy was never consistent. One day it would put three slugs through the same hole at 50 yrds the next it wouldn't even print 20" at 50 yds. Got sick of it and switched to Knight guns and have never regretted it.

I've owned over twelve BP guns over the last twenty years and know just about every reason a BP gun won't shoot straight. My safari was number 19 in the qaulity range. Only one was worse.
 
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