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This is a USFA Rodeo II, which is a clone of the classic Colt 1873 Single Action Army.
On the surface, it may look like any other clone, but these actually have a lot going for them. USFA was a somewhat small scale company, and they made everything but their grips in-house, all down to the screws, pins, and springs, everything was made by them, and to really quite a good standard, some people say these revolvers were the best clones of the Colt 1873, and I can see why.
There's small changes here and there on the internals, to make certain parts and fittings much stronger, these guns really can take so much more abuse than any of the original Colts, even things such as hammer fanning, a practice discouraged on most Colts, as without special modification it leads to quite excessive wear.
They were available in all sorts of calibers, .45 Colt, .44-40 Winchester, .44 Special, .38 Special, .32-20 Winchester, etc. Basically any caliber you could get the original Colt 1873 in, and Colt's own later improved versions. These guns were quite liked by people who were into Cowboy Action Shooting.
Regrettable though, USFA was owned by a person who is notoriously fickle, production batches could sometimes take excessive time, sometimes he'd take orders for making 1911s, which took an awful lot of time, one time he had this idea for a goofy revolver using .410 Bore shotgun shells, etc.
One of his ficklest ideas was a .22LR semi-automatic pistol called the Zip-22, the production of which he would finance by selling all of USFA revolver tooling, the idea being that obviously the Zip-22 would make a lot of money and they would buy it back.
This didn't happen, because the Zip-22 was a plastic deathtrap and overall piece of fucking shit, which nobody wanted to buy. The company goes under because of this absolute potatoing, and the owner, who had other businesses, moves on.
These nice revolvers thus are now rather desirable and collectible, as there will be no more of them made.