ColtPythonElite
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Where can you get a 2017 Cobra for 400 bucks?
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Where can you get a 2017 Cobra for 400 bucks?
Master Blaster
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A new Cobra will set you back about $600 by the time you get it home, if you buy it from Bud's.
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog...RA+.38SPL+P+FS+2.1+MATTE+S/S+HOUGE+OVERMOLDED
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog...RA+.38SPL+P+FS+2.1+MATTE+S/S+HOUGE+OVERMOLDED
Gordon
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The model 12 besides aluminum frame has a slimmed down frame, hey are notorious for cracking.
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Eddietruett
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I've seen several used ones in the $400-450 range at gun shows with no buyers surprisingly. I just bought one from a dealer still sealed in box for $500 which I understand is right around cost. He had 4-5 and wanted to dump a few. I was able to flip it and make a few bucks but not what I thought. It seems there are nice ones that have smooth actions and others have gritty actions. I handled one in a shop that felt horrible. Maybe it go something in the action, I don't know but I put it down immediately. I had 2 brand new ones when they first came out and they both felt different. One was much smoother than the other, but I never shot either one, that's when people were paying stupid money for them.
Gordon
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Exactly, a crap shoot with the 80s ones.
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Cocked & Locked
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I've got one...1974 production if yy memory is right. I seldom shoot it and seldom carry it but I do at times.
Crowman
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I remember seeing a post above for an old Cobra at $699. That was my basis. For $400, I’d buy two or three. The new Cobras are very good.
Monac
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I did not know that, Gordon! Just in case I misunderstood, do you mean the Model 12 frame is actually slimmer in some areas than a Model 12 frame? Boy, if that's true, S&W went too far for weight savings. Although I guess way back in the 1950's or 1960's, when 38 Special +P wasn't as much of a thing, it may have made more sense.
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thinner
Gordon
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yup it is thinner in some areas. I was issued a Model 10 as a Counter Intel agent in 70s and longed for a model 12. When I finally bought one, long after getting out, I was horrified to find regular model 10 grips did not fit . And the frame and throat cracking were pretty universal unless shot lightly and infrequently . The dimensions of a revolver are critical and monkeying with the success of the Model 10 was not a real success.Now another thought "I heard" from a long retired old school Colt employee is that the Agent in the unpolished format was amazingly found a slight bit more rugged from the metal left on and not removed compared to the Cobra of same years. Fits with my unaware abuse of two of them with low .357 mag pressured 110 +p+ loads. Some of the Agents how ever were very poorly assembled with little or no final fitting required on those old D frames.
. The dimensions of a revolver are critical and monkeying with the success of the Model 10 was not a real success.Now another thought "I heard" from a long retired old school Colt employee is that the Agent in the unpolished format was amazingly found a slight bit more rugged from the metal left on and not removed compared to the Cobra of same years. Fits with my unaware abuse of two of them with low .357 mag pressured 110 +p+ loads. Some of the Agents how ever were very poorly assembled with little or no final fitting required on those old D frames.SwampWolf
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Not considering the last run of Cobras/Agents having shrouded ejectors (post-1972), the post-1966 Cobras had the same shorter grip frame as the Agent but came with longer wood stocks, otherwise the two revolvers were identical in every respect.
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