Colt to reissue the Colt Cobra. Steel Frame!

[JellyJar]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/12/daniel-zimmerman/new-colt-cobra-38-revolver/

According to the web site Thetruthaboutguns.com Colt is to produce a new version of the Colt Cobra, Six shot 38spl with a steel frame.

If it is steel frame why not call it a Detective Special instead?

Take care

JJ

 

[Blacksmoke]

If you scroll down, this topic has been under discussion for a few days.

Of course, it is momentous enough to bear repeating.

 

[DPris]

It is not a re-issue.
New gun, not the same action as the original Cobra.
Denis

 

[Old Dog]

Not liking the fiber-optic front sight (not that I don't approve of fiber-optic front sights, they're quite nice for natural light target shooting outdoors during the day), the look is all wrong ... and why I am thinking it's gonna take at least nine or eleven hundred bucks to bring one home?

 

[CajunBass]

In the other thread the figure $700.00 was tossed around by someone who seems to have some connection with Colt. I'm too lazy to look it up, but it would be easy to find.

For years I've been hearing people complain that Colt needed to bring back their revolvers. Well, apparently they are, so people complain about what they're not instead of looking to what they are.

Oh heck.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/2017-new-colt-cobra.815460/

 

[Plan2Live]

Already under discussion. https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/2017-new-colt-cobra.815460/

But let me get this in before shutdown. First came the Kimber K6, now the Colt. I hope Ruger is listening and has a team scratching around the basement looking for the old "Six" plans and dies.

 

[CajunBass]

I said it in the other thread, but I'll add it here. One thing I'm glad to see is that manufacturers have enough confidence in the revolver market to introduce something that started with a clean sheet of paper. This Colt, the Kimber, the Smith & Wesson Model 69 and the "new" Model 66. It seems Ruger and especially Taurus are always trying something different. They've done this all on the belief that there is a "civilian" market for them. They know they're not going to get any major military or police orders for these guns.

We might argue over this feature or that one, but I think it speaks well for future of the revolver.

 

[SwampWolf]

According to the web site Thetruthaboutguns.com Colt is to produce a new version of the Colt Cobra, Six shot 38spl with a steel frame.

If it is steel frame why not call it a Detective Special instead?

I agree. And I also think that the market for snub-nosed revolvers being carried concealed is best addressed with a lighter weight, alloy frame, 6-shot revolver (aka, the original Cobra), having a concealed hammer.

 

[MrBorland]

As noted, this is already under discussion in the thread linked above, so I'll go ahead and close this one.