Worship at the altar of Colt much?
Ah, nope. (Maybe if they paid me) Just another anonymous guy on the internet who noted that he likes his own King Cobra very much while having also noticed there's been a lot of praise for this very same gun... on the internet (on which, strangely, it took seven months for you to deign to respond to my post). Anyway, all I said was I don't have the issue of a weak trigger return on my personal KC and many others have posted hundreds of positive threads on numerous internet forums in praise of this revolver. Oh, I guess I did challenge the notion that you dismissed the KC (and the new Python, not even the subject of this thread) based on a sample of one:
The sample I handled was finished as well as modern standards allow, and the trigger pull itself was quite light. But the trigger return was wholly inadequate, and took conscious effort and concentration to avoid having the trigger lock up due to inadequate reset. I could not recommend it for defensive use.
Please tell us your extensive experience in DA revolvers for defensive use, as it's not really coming across in your acrimonious post. Over the past 34 years, I've probably trained north of 30,000 law enforcement officers in revolver and pistol shooting for DEFENSIVE use, that is, when someone is trying kill you or an innocent person. I've been involved in, debriefed, studied and had more training from actual gunfight victors to fill several volumes. I've competed in - and won - dozens of pistol and revolver shooting matches. MY EXPERT OPINION - which I am not alone in - is that the trigger reset on these guns is too light for defensive use, under all circumstances and factors. For bullseye and target and casual shooters, it's probably fine. But under stress when someone is trying to kill you, it's clearly lacking.
Gosh, you're making me almost sorry that I have zero experience using a DA revolver for defensive use (although, as a youthful MP, I was formerly issued S*&W Model 10, 15 and 36 revolvers, thankfully never doing more than having to qualify with them on paper targets). Acrimonious? Goodness, gracious -- I must not understand the meaning of this term. I must defer to your most impressive experience (that'd be what, upwards of or over 1,000 officers
a month you trained?); 34 years in LE, and all of it as a firearms instructor? Wow. Unfortunately, for me, my employers made us perform routine actual law enforcement duties for several years before we could even apply to be firearms instructors, so my paltry experience is this regard is apparently about half of what you claim. Not sure about anyone having enough experience in debriefing, training with "actual gunfight victors" to "fill several volumes," though... I've been in the business for a minute myself, but one suspects that one would have to travel the country over several times a year for many years to even fill one volume (and it'd still be a thin book). Mas, it that you? But, I digress. I will say that my opinion is that there's no "victors" in a gunfight, only survivors. And my paltry competition experience pales in contrast to yours, as I never competed with a revolver (although I've watched a lot of video of Jerry Miculek). Come to think of it, I've never won
dozens of matches, either. Maybe a couple. Ah, well.
2-3 dry fires will tell you all you all you need to know about a trigger press.
At last something we can agree on! Yes, 2-3 dry fires in a gunshop might tell me all I need to know about a trigger press on a revolver I'm looking to possibly purchase... but then, that's only one particular specimen, and even I, with my vast experience, wouldn't presume that the one example was typical of an entire production run of a mass-produced revolver.
Anyway, my thanks for coming along to share your wealth of experience and knowledge with us (oh, and bringing back the other technical expert on the mechanical deficiencies of Colt revolvers, too). We can never have too many anonymous folks on the internet cautioning would-be buyers (especially those in law enforcement or law-abiding citizen shooters) of inferior Colt products. I do hope that you'll visit more often than every seven months to advise us on the other sub-optimal guns out there, lest someone unwittingly buys for defensive use a gun that is not worthy! I'm sure there's quite a few Kimber, Springfield or Taurus guns out there that need to be examined for their faults as well.
