Colt has had a bad habit of just missing the trend. They reintroduced the SAA too late for the first cowboy craze and then bumped the price for the second. They discontinued their small revolvers just as CCW was coming in. They introduced the Anaconda long after the "Dirty Harry" .44 Magnum boom. If there were a prize for the world's worst trend spotters, Colt would win hands down.
I don't know which was chicken and which was egg, but one reason the Anaconda never went anywhere is that Colt didn't advertise it or give it much publicity support. I don't think the Python mystique had anything to do with it, or the fact that it was not a "super shiny" gun. I think by the time it came out, Colt had already made the decision to virtually abandon the civilian gun business and concentrate on police and military contracts. So did Colt give up on it because there was little interest, or was there little interest because Colt gave up on it? Chicken or egg - which came first?
Jim
I don't know which was chicken and which was egg, but one reason the Anaconda never went anywhere is that Colt didn't advertise it or give it much publicity support. I don't think the Python mystique had anything to do with it, or the fact that it was not a "super shiny" gun. I think by the time it came out, Colt had already made the decision to virtually abandon the civilian gun business and concentrate on police and military contracts. So did Colt give up on it because there was little interest, or was there little interest because Colt gave up on it? Chicken or egg - which came first?
Jim