[3] The Match Target Model debuted in 1938 and featured a heavier barrel with a one piece wrap-around grip known as the "elephant ear.

[3] In 1941 as the US entered World War II, Colt ceased civilian production of the Woodsman but delivered 4000 Match Target models to the US Government as late as 1945.

[5] These pistols had oversized plastic two-piece grips and were marked "Property US Government", but appeared on the surplus market after the war.

[3] Colt also introduced the less expensive Challenger model, which came equipped with fixed sights and featured a magazine release near bottom aft side of the grip.

The Air Force models had no special markings and most were sold as surplus through the Director of Civilian Marksmanship Program.

He had his hat low on his forehead and he had a wedge-shaped face that ended in a point, like the bottom of the ace of diamonds.

"[8]Novelist Ernest Hemingway: The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if…he is really smart…he will get a permit to carry one and then drop around to Abercrombie and Fitch and buy himself a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, Woodsman model, with a five-inch barrel and a box of shells...Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either [boxer] Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner.