alexander45
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Probably wouldn't bother with it there's a new service in 45 colt down at one shop for $800 or so Iv been drooling over but don't have the funds for I doubt a new one would go for less than $1200
Colt Working to Bring New DA Revolver(s) to Market
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A new Colt would be nice. but can they compete with companies like Ruger or Tarus who seem to have the hottest R&D Depts in the marketplace.
Seems like Tauris comes out with revolvers in 3"s or 4's anymore!
Smith has a good solid base that they keep building from. and Ruger can'r seem to make enough guns to keep up.
I think that Revolvers are the Pocket guns of the future. WHen buyers go and lay their cash out, they want to see soe mechanical stuff going on as they pull the trigger/ Look at the see-thru Tarus...
ME? I carry a Chief and a Model 10. For really small and light I carry a Breetta Timcat .22.
ZVP
Seems like Tauris comes out with revolvers in 3"s or 4's anymore!
Smith has a good solid base that they keep building from. and Ruger can'r seem to make enough guns to keep up.
I think that Revolvers are the Pocket guns of the future. WHen buyers go and lay their cash out, they want to see soe mechanical stuff going on as they pull the trigger/ Look at the see-thru Tarus...
ME? I carry a Chief and a Model 10. For really small and light I carry a Breetta Timcat .22.
ZVP
Not many. They have to make some serious decisions, and what they'd see here is a relatively small customer base that is highly fractured in explaining what they want. Worse then that, some want what can't possibly be done. :banghead:
CraigC
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Many say they want it and then find other things to spend their money on.
larryh1108
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....it will be small, it will be plastic, it will be light and the only way it will look like a Colt is the pony on it.
Vern Humphrey
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I'm retired. I don't have anything else to do.
I have mentioned this before, but a while back folks told market surveyors that they would for sure buy a new Luger if such were available. So Interarms and Mauser sank some serious bucks into producing new Lugers at the same factory where the originals were made. The result? All those folks who wanted Lugers didn't want NEW Lugers, they wanted OLD Lugers, or S&W's or Colts or whatever. The new Lugers never made back the investment.
I think there may be a lesson there for any company thinking of "reviving" old models. A lot of "prospective buyers" are all mouth and no money.
Jim
I think there may be a lesson there for any company thinking of "reviving" old models. A lot of "prospective buyers" are all mouth and no money.
Jim
scaevola
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If I was a betting man I'd go with this:
Vern Humphrey
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That's because as a friend of mine said, "No one can shoot a Luger. They get so fascinated by watching the thingy go up and down that they forget about the sights."
I guarantee I'd buy a half-dozen Colt Shooting Masters in .45 Colt.
Even if it was...
The first thing you have to do is find somebody at the factory who knows what the Shooting Master is or was...
I strongly recommend that you start following some of the better auction sites for an original one. Expensive yes, but relatively cheap compared to one made today.
Vern Humphrey
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In fact, I have a Colt New Service made in 1906. This gun has been reblued, and to sight it in I soldered on a big honking slab of steel and widened the rear sight notch to the right.
It shoots dead on, but I'm seriously considering trimming the barrel to 5 1/2" and putting on target sights -- a sort of ersatz Shooting Master.
If I could find a Shooting Master in good condition, under $2,000, I'd buy it.
That might be possible, but you'd likely have to settle for one in .38 Special or maybe .45ACP. Other chamberings are very rare.
Or you could do what Colt did, that was to take a regular New Service Target frame and slim the backstrap, frontstrap, and stocks.
Vern Humphrey
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What I plan on doing is simply cutting back the barrel on my New Service and mounting target sights. I already have Herrett Shooting Master stocks on it.
Frank V
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Dreaming is nice, truthfully, I don't see Colt reintroducing a DA revolver. We can wish, but I'm not holding my breath & I REALLY hope I'm wrong.
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If Colt makes a revolver, I'll buy it sight unseen. Don't need to know any of the specifics or see any photos; I'll take it.
Vern Humphrey
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I agree with you. As others have said, they'll probably never make the revolver I WANT (a Colt Shooting Master in .45 Colt.) But if we make the revolver business profitable for them, the odds of them making my gun get a little better,
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If they ever do make a double action revolver, I'm betting on a new version of the Magnum Carry. I love my D frames and would buy a new one in a second.
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jimbo555
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Colt could bring back the ds2 and I would buy that tomorrow!
Panzerschwein
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I'd LOVE a detective special stainless steel, especially in .357 magnum! I think with aggressive marketing and making a good product Colt could easily have a market for CCW revolvers even in 2014. J-frames are still going strong, real strong, and there are many people pining for the old Detective Specials because it holds one extra round over the J-frame .38/357s and is nearly the same size.
I'd buy on in a hurry!
I'd buy on in a hurry!
But at Colt they will be asking:
Would he do so regardless of the price?
Are they're enough others with the same viewpoint to support sustained sales over the long run?
If the answer is "no" they won't make enough profit to pay for the development, tooling and marketing of the new gun. They must all so consider that if it was indeed popular other competitors wouldn't sit on their hands, and whatever they introduced would take a cut out of their projected sales.
This thread was started on May 8, with the "news" that Colt was getting a DA revolver ready to go. It is now July 23. No Colt. And I bet in 2015, and 2016, and 2017, and ??? there will still be no new Colts except maybe another warmed over 1911.
Jim
Jim
That's the manufactures and shareholders concern.
But for us, it could be a sound investment.
A company with a financially tumultuous past, present and probable future, a limited run of a new revolver could be quite the collectors piece.
Or Colt could live to tell the tale.
Either way, it could be seen as plus to consumers.
It might be seen that way by some consumers, but not the owners of stock that invested money expecting that they'd make a good return.
After taking a loss they just might fire the CEO that made a bad decision...
Companies (including those that make firearms) are in business to make money, not lose it to make consumers happy. If they thought otherwise they wouldn't be around long. What they previously made might become collectables, but that would do them absolutely no good.
Maybe, Sol, but I have an AA2000 and it seems to not be especially valuable, even though it 1) is a Colt, 2) was limited production and, 3) was a failure.
The Paterson, of course, was a failure and it became very valuable. But it took well over a century for that to happen. I guess I will just have to wait around until my AA2000 is worth big bucks.
Jim
The Paterson, of course, was a failure and it became very valuable. But it took well over a century for that to happen. I guess I will just have to wait around until my AA2000 is worth big bucks.
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