Posted on 09/19/2019 11:54:43 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
I own several firearms, pistols and rifles. Not one single Colt at this time, and might I add never in the future.
I own an 1882 Colt Derringer in .41RF and after thisdecision that is likely to be the only Colt I ever own.
Cartoon today paraphrasing, showed a guy saying he would not called his rifle a AR-15 but instead a MS-13 so the democrats will be for it.
According to a local gun dealer here in Texas. Colt didn’t tell the whole story to the public. The letter that dealers received stated they are only discontinuing production for the next several months. They have a contract with a foreign country to produce rifles for them and once that is completed will they will start production again for the US market. A marketing tactic used before to have a run on inventory.
Good points, all...Thanks...
PSA makes a lot of lower receivers with different names/labels on them. Maybe they should do a run of MS-13s!
;^)
Wonder if Colt will buckle under when the lefties smelling victory with this swings their ban impetus to the semi-auto handgun Colt line.
I think GM manufactured M-16s, under license, because of the Army’s demand, during the VN era. A least, that’s what the Drill Sgt. told us.
Yes, the mags are interchangeable with all AR-15 mags. It came with 2 10s and I added a 30.
The ones I held were too small for my hand - and I don’t have big hands.
“The handwriting was on the wall when the stopped producing the Python and started producing the Anaconda.” [.44 Special, post 39]
You have the timeline inside out.
Colt’s Python was produced from 1955 or so into the first decade of the 21st century. Custom Shop offered it in special limited-issue configurations until about 2013 or so.
Their Anaconda was produced from 1990 until 1999 as a standard item, and the Custom Shop sold limited editions for a very short time past that. They overlapped.
The Python has a legendary reputation but it wasn’t innovative at all: simply a somewhat refined target version of the same double-action swingout-cylinder revolver Colt’s offered from about 1890 on. Poorly suited for day-to-day field use, it could not take a steady diet of full-power 357 loads for long without loosening and getting out of time. Owed its accuracy to extra-tight bores and carefully matched chamber throats (long a feature of Colt’s target revolvers), and its easy, smooth action to careful fitting and polishing, requiring extensive hand work by skilled craftsmen.
The Anaconda (MM Frame) was simply the largest, heaviest version of a basic design Colt’s introduced in 1969 as the Trooper Mk III in 357. Owing little to previous Colt’s designs, it exploited newer manufacturing techniques and materials, and required less fitting. Accuracy could be good but trigger pulls were atrocious at first and never did progress beyond average. All Mk III and Mk V DA revolvers did earn a great reputation for strength and durability.
I’m sure Colt will continue to supply the necessary parts to service the millions of AR’s they’ve sold.
Might just have to build it yourself.
We carried the A2 in the army, but the only other Colt I’ve ever fiddled with was the Colt .38 revolvers that we used when we went to the range and re-qualify when I was a federal armed guard. I liked the sights on it, but never could figure out why we didn’t use our duty pieces - most of us were issued Ruger Security Sixes and +P hollow point loads. P.S. I always thought Smith & Wesson revolvers sucked.
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