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 ...
Colt is starting to get so desperate for sales that they’re doing what they should have done in the first place - instead of pissing all over civilian shooters for decades, and producing pieces of increasingly crappy quality.
This DA revolver is a step in the right direction, but Colt needs to institute a crash R&D or acquisition program to get real, modern autopistols that aren’t the 1911 in their lineup without repeating their huge mistakes of the past.
Neato.
The cost of Pythons is ridiculous. I’m not sure about Cobras but this has to have an affect on that market.
I thought colt cobra was a malt liquor.
It’s a good thing I can’t get excited about revolvers; the semi-auto pistols pretty much keep me broke already.
Looking at CZ’s right now.
Colt is apparently making a big deal about the trigger on this gun. I had a six inch Trooper Mk.III, around 70’s vintage, with a trigger that had a serious casting “void”. A large chunk of metal was missing from the trigger, but all of the bearing surfaces were there, and the gun worked well, shot well, but it got stolen. I thought that they had a quality control problem, and it has affected my opinion of Colt ever since. I have also had a problem with them ever since they backed the gun control efforts of Carter. America has better offerings than Colt.
Please let me know if you find any CZ53’s.
They need to do pythons and anacondas again. I also heard a rumor way back when, they bought the patent for the p&r medusa, they should put that out. Colt has had a bunch of idiots running it for a long time.
If I had the money I’d look at the suppresser ready CZ 75B SPO1 in Urban gray.
Will prolly just get a barrel and can for my Glock 19.
My best friends are Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson. Also Mr. Rossi makes the a fine companion especially at age 44.
Colt has rarely met a gun control proposal it didn’t at least initially like and support.
I'm a S&W guy and carried one on duty. Just never liked the feel of a DA Colt. But I wish I would have bought all he had that night ;-)
Ed
ps; the owner died a few months later and the store closed.
I’ll give the writer his due for telling us what they are shown shooting in the photos is a pre-production example that they will not fully review. And he also gets props for restraint when describing the new trigger geometry. I’m sure the PTB @ Colt would have loved for him to favorably compare the performance of the new trigger to the old “breaks like glass” trigger.
Finally, that MSRP will never be seen attached to any gun in a store or on a website. Never ever, IMO. If you want to be ready to acquire an early release, you better have 10 crisp examples of old Ben Franklin’s visage tucked away just for the purpose.
That gun looks just like my Colt Magnum Carry. I guess it’s not worth as much now.
The writer should know that Colt cylinders rotate CLOCKWISE.
To win back any part of the market it will have to be a quality product.
Stamping a horse on the frame and expecting crap to sell on the Colt name will not make in the age of the internet.
BTW, it works great; thanks.
I like my pre 60 colt det specials. They feel just right and are accurate as hell with a 2 inch barrel. No +Ps though for it.
Glad to see Colt returning to wheelguns and hopefully they will start making autos for the civilian market that are not 1911s. The new cobra looks promising but the weight (25 oz) is more like that of the original Detective Special than a Cobra. Cobra was aluminum framed and 10 ounces lighter. The Agent was lighter still at 14 oz IIRC. Years ago I found a first gen Agent (no barrel shroud, blued not parkerized). The finish is trashed (it looks like it rode around in someone’s pocket for 40 years) but it still locks up like a bank vault and the timing is good. I thought about getting it refinished but decided to leave it as is. Its a great carry gun, same size as a S&W but has 6 shots not 5 (I like sixguns not fiveguns). I hope the new Cobra does the old one justice but they need to change the cylinder latch. The new one looks like a part of the male anatomy.
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