What's the difference between the Colt Agent & Detective Special & Cobra???

[dfariswheel]

The .327 is "about" where the old 32-20 was.
I get nervous when the word "Magnum" is spoken in conjunction with Colt "D" frames.

"Maybe" the Detective Special, but almost certainly not the aluminum framed models.
The "D"'s were intended for standard .38 Special, with the late versions rated for some +P ammo.
The old pre-war Police Positive Special was chambered in the 32-20, but I don't think Colt ever did a post-war "D" frame in it, and not in an aluminum frame at all.
The .327 might be pushing it a little too hard.

 

[45crittergitter]

I once had a steel Agent, or at least a steel-framed Colt with "Agent" on the barrel. I got it online thinking all Agents were lightweights. Live and learn.

 

[DiverJ]

Even assuming there is physical room to fit a 327 Magnum shell into the cylinder, the Cobra in .38 Special caliber is not cleared to fire +P ammunition. The 327 Magnum is a VERY high-pressure round (45,000PSI!), way higher pressure in fact than a .38 Special +P is.

 

[whitecoyote]

Colt Cobra w/3" barrel. Manufactured 1968.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

That's BEAUTIFUL whitecoyote!

 

[doc540]

Agents and Cobra's are steel barrel and cylinder - alloy frame and are of identical weights.

Agents, typically, didn't have labor-intensive finishing work, many were parkerized.

Cobra's did have more labor-intensive finishing work.

1982 alloy-frame Agent w/o parkerizing:


1982 alloy-frame Cobra


Both of these have the same size and shape frame and butt, but different grip panels (stocks, to you purists)

Both make great concealed snubbies;

Agent after mod's:



Cobra after mod's:

 

[Nasty]

Ahh...the good old days.

I couldn't afford them then...and now that I can, they have gone crazy in price.

 

[doc540]

Bought an Agent yesterday for $225

 

[HexHead]

Bought an Agent yesterday for $225

I hate you.

 

[DWFan]

Are these the revolvers that Amscor copied?

 

[medic_guns]

I love my Lawman III. I had a nice DS III and sold it for some reason. I'm thinking of buying another ds for carry. Awesome finish on those guns. I can't keep my hands of that Lawman III.

 

[savit260]

Are these the revolvers that Amscor copied?

Only cosmeticly. As I understand it, inide the Armscor has entirely different lockwork.

It does look a lot like a DS though

 

[Elmer]

Bought an Agent yesterday for $225

Great deal.....

I probably don't have more than $125 in most of my Colt D frames....... but that was then.......

Never forget that today is the "good old days". With the inflation that's sure to be coming down the road, (maybe sooner than later, the way the government's spending money...), young folks are going to be lamenting the prices that they could have bought guns for back in 2010.........

 

[savit260]

I'm already lamenting the prices I could have had in 2008.

 

[45crittergitter]

Agents and Cobra's are steel barrel and cylinder - alloy frame and are of identical weights.

Might want to check my previous post. I bought a steel-framed Agent.