Cobra Patriot .45 ACP Report

[jaime]

Can you imagine having to protect yourself with this pile? I can see it already:

Bad Guy - "Give me your money!"

Me - "Wait, I gotta un-jam my Cobra!"

Bad Guy - "Boom!"

Me - "I told you not to shoot me yet dammit, I'm un-jamming the Cobra!"

Bad Guy - "Boom!"

Me - DEAD

 

[jaime]

So, I've most recently found that you can get this pile of crap to fire a little more consistently by putting a ton of oil on the load ramp at the entrance to the barrel. It still has serious issues, but if you have already stepped in this crap, you may as well be able to use it for target shooting. Definitely not a self-defense type gun. You'd be left looking silly as you tried to un-jam the damned thing and got your arse shot.

 

[franco45]

I bought a Cobra Patriot 45 last May. I finally sent it back to Cobra in August. They had it for 3 and1/2 months. They gave me a song and dance about needing a new slide and them not having anyone to make the new slides. They finally sent me a Shadow 38 special to replace the Patriot. Not a Smith and Wesson but goes bang every time.

 

[DasFriek]

Well since this old thread isnt going away i may as well add my opinion.
I know 2 years ago while looking at my first guns after being away from pistols for 20 years i actually read many good reviews of the Cobra 9mm and .45

Very glad i didn't get tempted by one, I guess a 9mm wouldn't be bad if you needed a range gun and know enough on how to make the gun run right yourself.
Visually the gun is no beauty queen, But its not Hi-Point ugly either.

But as in most cases with guns and many other things, You get what you pay for.

 

[jaime]

More on the Cobra Patriot 45 ACP

I'm gonna have to take back my last comment about the massive amounts of oil making this POS work. Went back again yesterday with the same type of setup (massive amounts of oil - nearly dripping) and as usual, it was very consistent at being inconsistent and unreliable. I damaged more ammo than what I actually shot. It was yet, another day of misery with the Cobra Patriot 45 ACP (I think this is short for A Pile of Crap).

Upon reading the story of the guy who sent it back to the factory and got the run-around, I might think again about that. I guess I can modify it myself, then those bastards will say that it's been modified. What a pile of crap.

I guess the thing that bugs me the most about this is the fact that magazines with semi-reliable reputations wrote good things about this POS. These were good reviews, what gun were they reviewing and what gun was it that they shot?

I think that these magazines need to list what kind of ammo was used for their testing, how many rounds of each type and what special preparations were made. If they fire the thing 2-3Xs, they may not run into problems, but if they fire several boxes one right after the other, they may see problems. I guess I am not very trusting of these tests or reviews anymore as I don't see how they came to their conclusions statistically.

I did send my review of this POS to the guy that wrote that quality could be had at a low price, but never got a response.

 

[ulflyer]

Jaime, hate to say it, but you've got a loser that will never be reliable. I did all sorts of polishing, respringing of the striker, etc, all to no avail, and this was several years ago when they first came out. Biggest prob, as best I can remember, was failure to ignite. Stronger striker spring, new striker(firing pin), etc, didn't make any diff. Obviously, they've still not got their act togather and aught to stop selling crap like that.

 

[franco45]

Jaime, after they gave me the runaround for a while they did offer me my choice of any gun they make. As I said I chose the 38 special revolver. I also read on another forum about a guy who chose the 9mm. So it seems they will not leave you completely hanging out to dry. The revolver is really a nice looking snubbie and I have put 200 rounds through it without any problems. At least I got something that works out of the deal. In the meantime I bought a Kahr CW45 for just over $400 that is a real nice weapon.

 

[89cr500]

the gun you guys might be thinking the 9mm looks like is the sccy or skyy 9mm or thats what it seems to look like to me just a little more like the kel tec p11 just thought id add that in

 

[89cr500]

well some one was trying to think of a gun name for what it looks like i cant find who it was

 

[trekgod3]

I had a patriot 45 for a few years. I recently sold it and bought a G21 and G30. The patriot is a nice, small, light gun. The problem is the trigger. DAO and 12+ pounds. Not fun.