Did Colt stop making revolvers?

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I'm personally a Ruger GP-100 & Blackhawk fan boy to be honest.
But I've owned a Smitty or two in the past that I loved as well.
Just for fun, I went on Colt's website today.
I haven't been there in years.
The "only" revolvers I saw were cowboy action guns.
I even downloaded their 2013 catalog...and still...nothing.

Did Colt stop making double-action revolvers?
Have I painfully just been living under some rock?
Is this old news that I just apparently completely missed?


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Wikipedia states that production for the Python was 1955-1996. It also state that they announced the end of production in 1999. If I remember correctly they stopped serial production but still had some revolvers coming out of the custom shop for a few years, this probably explains the 2 different dates.
 
WOW!!!!

I guess I "have" been living under a frickin' rock!
I would have never imagined this at all.
They used to have some cool revolvers I remember from when I was a kid.
Thanks for the quick replies.
I feel really stupid now.
lol....
 
Cheer up. It just means you've missed the 10,000th "overpriced Pythons", "what happened to Diamondback prices", and "I can't even afford a Trooper III" threads.

Don't even get me started on 1,000 "strange schemes Colt can do to get back into double actions" threads, followed by "no they can't" replies.

Plus, rocks can be very nice. See some of Frank Lloyd Wright's work.
 
I was on GB this morning and Detective Specials are listed from $650 (well worn) to over $1000.

Gun prices are crazy right now.
 
Dain Bramage said:
Cheer up. It just means you've missed the 10,000th "overpriced Pythons", "what happened to Diamondback prices", and "I can't even afford a Trooper III" threads.

Don't even get me started on 1,000 "strange schemes Colt can do to get back into double actions" threads, followed by "no they can't" replies.

Plus, rocks can be very nice. See some of Frank Lloyd Wright's work.
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Well thank you.
That makes me feel a little better I guess.
Kinda.....lol

I did think the Python was a pretty revolver though. But I've never held or fired one.
The only Colt "anything" I've ever fired were all M16s and M4s in the army. I've never owned a Colt of any kind personally.
Looks like I'm not going to now either.....lol

On the bright side, yep....FLW designed some absolutely awesome stuff...
 
Yes. A very very large rock.

The good news is that airplanes and the internet have been invented in the mean time!!!! So you have something to celebrate after all!!!!

;)

Bill Clinton is no longer president either........

Just ribbing man
 
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If we could only go back to 1955 in a DeLorean...
Then we could buy all the pythons we want at dirt-cheap prices!!
 
Oldsmobiles have been out of production for less time than Double Action Colts !
 
Funny thread. Yeah. No DA revolvers. But the old ones sure get a lot of attention! $$
 
Absolute & utter BULLSPIT, if you think you're refering to Colt Peacemakers.
Many of the parts are outsourced, but NONE are Italian.
Denis
 
SabbathWolf said:
Did Colt stop making double-action revolvers?
Have I painfully just been living under some rock?
Is this old news that I just apparently completely missed?
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I hate to break this to you, but disco is dead too. :D
 
This is something I only relatively recently learned as well. Having not been a valid consumer for a factory fresh Colt... ever, the slipping into producing semis and SAAs only passed without my notice. The fact that any given Colt was always just enough out of my price range and not favoring the cylinder release system on Colts kept me outa the loop on production.

It was only the fairly recent re-introduction of S&W's 1917 which caused me to go over to Colt to see if they had one as well.

Next step: Much mocking, derision and speculation as to how long I have and how large the rock was that I had been living under.

Who knew? Apparently not me, the OP and at least one other. But that's not all that passed unnoticed over at Colt for me. Their array of AR based rifles, reissued 1911s and more. I'm just not enough of a new Colt guy to follow I guess and generic unsought after knowledge clogs up my brain ball.

Not unlike reading about a car or motorcycle of which I have no hopes of buying and have no inherent technical interest in - Colt has been well under my radar for some time.
 
Only a handful of New Frontiers have shipped and I haven't seen a new SAA in a year or so.


The new SAAs are Uberti parts assembled in America.
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Yep, pure BS.

This rumor started when Colt contracted parts from foreign sources for the 2nd and 3rd generation percussion guns.
 
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