Earth shattering discovery for me

17 years ago my best man gave me a king as my wedding present. I shoot it all the time, it is a great gun

Now find a friend with one of the even older Colt or S&W's and feel the joy. The King Cobra's are fine guns, but the older actions are the best as far as feel.

Even when I expect it it is still a pleasant surprise as to degree regarding how fine our KC is when we take it and a couple of our other open carries out for play.

The KC sits against two sweet (really) large Tauri, a GP100 and an old Dan Wesson. The DW comes close but doggonit, that KC is the bee's knee's and I really, really like all the others too.

I'm glad we shucked the NIB status on it years ago and can enjoy shooting it all we want.

Smooooooooooooooooooooooooooth!!!!!!!

You better get yourself a little bit conditioned before you shoot a Python.

A King Cobra is and old gun?

Me and Genn'l Custer is feelin' a mite old here.

I look at 'em as upgraded/modernized Troopers started in what - 86 and ended in 92-3 including to a degree the span of the Trooper, so to me, I think of them as old. hell, they haven't made any for twenty years now.

I see that they were in fact re-introduced 94-98, but still.

Now you need to move to the head of the class and shoot a Python. Watch out. Once you're Snake bit there's no cure. You're in for a lifetime of lust and poverty.

A King Cobra is and old gun?

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I agree. A gun introduced in 1986 is old????

Sadly none of the "good guns" are made any more. Old model Rugers, S&Ws without the cursed IL and any DA Colt revolver are all products of a by-gone era and the gun buying public is the worse for it.

Dave

Well, since the KC is a Trooper Mk3 with a facelift and the DW lockwork was designed by the same man who designed the Colt Mk3 lockwork, it makes sense that they would compare favorably to each other.

Certainly the classic Colt and S&W revolvers are worth acquiring for many reasons. They are excellent investments, durable and iconic family heirlooms, beautiful examples of 20th century craftsmanship, very enjoyable to shoot or even just to look at, and often a viable alternative to a current new model. It's hard to go wrong when exchanging paper dollars for one of these fine machines.

"Now you need to move to the head of the class and shoot a Python. Watch out. Once you're Snake bit there's no cure. You're in for a lifetime of lust and poverty."

I agree- to a point. For many years, the Pythons were hand fitted, and were outstanding. Later models had less of that attention, due to higher production costs, and were not up to the same standards. I've shot an older Python that had an outstanding trigger. I more recently shot a friend's newish Python, and I was less than impressed with that trigger. It really needed work. JMO, of course. The blued models are gorgeous, though, aren't they?

Chuck

Sadly none of the "good guns" are made any more. Old model Rugers, S&Ws without the cursed IL and any DA Colt revolver are all products of a by-gone era and the gun buying public is the worse for it.

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this

Any gun not made in the last 10 years is "old". If you are over 40, you're old... just ask most elementary aged kids.

When I first started buying guns, I feared buying a used gun because I knew so little (even a "new" used gun). That's after growing up with guns and shooting them for years. So, it's a learning and comfort thing.

Colt and Smith & Wesson competed for many years head to head. S&W won.

Buy yourself a Mark V action Colt and see how you like it. It might open your eyes to a whole new world in revolvers.

I just happened to luck out and purchase a pre-lock model 67 used because both the boy and I liked how it felt in our hands. Then I learned what a treasure I have; it shoots like a dream.

Gotta look out for them snakes . . . it is easy to get snakebit after handling the newer, cruder-looking new wheelguns.

Ditto with the premier old S&W model, the Model 27 in .357. Checkered topstrap and checkered on top of the back sight . . . recessed cylinders, mirror-polished finishes, gorgeous wood stocks, etc.

This is a Model 27-2 from 1970 . . . in the highly desirable 3 1/2" barrel, and gorgeous original S&W magna stocks and the bright nickel-plated finish. It was one of my "grail guns" before I finally got one! BTW, the earlier versions of this revolver (Registered Magnum, pre-Model 27 and Model 27) were finished even better than this!!!



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