"New" snake gun from Colt coming in 2017

Other makers are putting out high tech revolvers made with space age materials and high tech machinery. Colt is losing out on sales. S&W likewise. No one likes the current crop of S&Ws with safety locks, etc., driving up the price of older models.

Sign onto the Smith & Wesson forum to see what that has done for prices. Not quite as ridiculous as those for Pythons, but climbing.

CCW permit holders in the US seem to favour revolvers. The market will be the determining factor.
 
Scotty454 said:
Um... You can keep your $4,000 Python, if I can get one with similar or better fit/finish/function for $1,000. It would totally matter, haha.
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freezer filler said:
You can almost guess who has one in their collection.:rolleyes:
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I am not trying to pick a fight gents, just pointing out that your "opinion" is just that, yours, and whether you feel something is worth a particular dollar value or not, has nothing at all to do with what some other person is willing to pay. They are not "wrong" to do so, although you appear to make them out to be idiots. Human nature and the sentimentality of some folks will cause them to continue to pay what some would consider outrageous prices for all kinds of things, regardless of practical considerations. I do not criticize you for your particular take on things. Live and let live. Do I have Pythons, yes from time to time...I buy them when I can get a good deal and sell them for a profit to those folks who overvalue them. It helps me pay for those guns I cherish, and for which I tend to pay more than the average person will, in order to acquire them...

Happy New Year to you!
 
Sharps '63 said:
Other makers are putting out high tech revolvers made with space age materials and high tech machinery. Colt is losing out on sales. S&W likewise. No one likes the current crop of S&Ws with safety locks, etc., driving up the price of older models.

Sign onto the Smith & Wesson forum to see what that has done for prices. Not quite as ridiculous as those for Pythons, but climbing.

CCW permit holders in the US seem to favour revolvers. The market will be the determining factor.
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You can buy the 442 and 642 without an internal lock for $350-400 brand new. I can't see Colt selling many of these for $699. Very hard to believe the Colt is work 2x as much as a Smith.
 
That $699 price is in US Dollars. Expect this pistol to cost around $1400 in Canada, and............................you may not see it on Canadian retailer displays for at least a year from the date it's released in the US due to US demand for it.
 
Seems to me they could be had not too long ago for 2000ish...before Walking Dead came out.
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Oh big time! I remember them going for ~1500 before the show came out. the price has been slowly creeping up ever since.
 
hatman1793 said:
Rumours do not equal facts. I made it my business to question many Colt reps at the SHOT SHOW a couple years in a row. I got the same answer:
Colt would never, could never build the Python ever again.
Something big was coming from Colt...we just can't say what...
Colt wants to enter the revolver market again but we can't say when...

Consider this: For Colt to re-enter the revolver market, they would have to create an entirely new gun based on today's technology as their old machinery, and procedures just are too obsolete. That means an investment cast frame, maybe a sleeved barrel like S&W's new model 66, and probably MIM parts. Plus they would need a ton of new money to make it happen.

I'm not buying it....
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Would Colt Canada have a more effective set-up cost to produce an up dated Revolver? (from what I understand, they have a bleeding edge facility)
 
LK-13 said:
Would Colt Canada have a more effective set-up cost to produce an up dated Revolver? (from what I understand, they have a bleeding edge facility)
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Revolvers can't just be cast/forged/machined and be slapped together by some minimum wage guy that doesn't care. There is a lot of careful hand fitting required to make it work and work well. Impossible? Absolutely not. Cost effective? Not likely. Far more money in goobermint contracts.
 
I disagree. How do you explain Alfa Proj revolvers then?

wbaad said:
Revolvers can't just be cast/forged/machined and be slapped together by some minimum wage guy that doesn't care. There is a lot of careful hand fitting required to make it work and work well. Impossible? Absolutely not. Cost effective? Not likely. Far more money in goobermint contracts.
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radmacks said:
I disagree. How do you explain Alfa Proj revolvers then?
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Good point. I do like my 9261 Alpha Proj revolver. I found the quality better than Ruger, and surprisingly not too much below S&W. I think the low price can be attributed to a combination of low labour & operating cost, as well as foreign currency exchange.
 
I'm guessing it'll be a modern design cheap-ish small revolver...along the lines of the Ruger LCR, and that we won't see it here.
 
IRUNGUNS said:
We are working on getting the 5" models when they are released
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Best New Year's Day news. 6" would be cooler but I would settle for 5" :)

Article out this morning on American Rifleman's site.

h ttps://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2017/1/1/the-keefe-report-colt-cobra-a-new-factory-double-action-colt/

And on Colt's website now:

http://www.colt.com/Catalog/Revolvers/Cobra

 
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