Posted on 12/31/2016 10:32:10 PM PST by monkapotamus
To do this job right, one has to keep secrets. And Colt dropped the biggest secret of 2017 on me, then told me to keep my yap shut—until now. Finally, the biggest news in new gun introductions is out. Colt is back in the double-action revolver business...
If you haunt gunbroker.com, odds are you have seen the prices of Colt revolvers skyrocket. Anything with a snake name has been going for big money—sometimes ridiculous money. My friend Steve Fjestad from Blue Book of Gun Values recently wrote about this. While some of the lunacy has subsided, it is clear that the guns Colt used to make still have tremendous power in the consciousness of American shooters.
Colt spent some serious time trying to get this gun right. They knew they only had one shot after a decades-long double-action hiatus. Some changes include trigger geometry. When you look at the new cobra you can see that the trigger rides on a pin more centrally located in the frame. And it is straighter than one might expect. Colt wanted to use the trigger of the Python as the baseline for what it wanted in the new Cobra. They have graphs, charts other tests that resemble a pathological liar’s polygraph test saying that they have determined this revolver’s trigger is right in there with the well-regarded Pythons...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanrifleman.org ...
Not that I object to a good semi-auto, either...
Revolvers - don’t leave your brass all over the ground when you shoot.
Damn Good Lookin’ Wheel Gun!
At $699 MSRP and 23 oz, this gun will have very limited marketability compared to similar S & W pieces which sell for much less...and are lighter. The extra round won’t make that much difference to the market. IMO.
You can put me down for one for sure. Many thanks Colt.
New Colt Revover
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