I don't like snakes

[vanfunk]

That’s precisely the point, lol.

 

[jmorris]

I'd buy any of them before I bought a "Colt Rainbow Trout", so, I guess the marketing guys were worth something but if you could eliminate that department and just use numbers to designate models and bring a good product to market for a better price, I'm all for that too.

 

[dickydalton]

I've had this one for over two years. Finally shot it today with full power 158 grain bullets. Didn't miss once in single or double action at 30 yards on a reactive target 4"X4". Pretty cool.

 

[Bwana John]

Never occurred to me to like or dislike a name. It's just what they're called.

I will say I think "Combat Masterpiece" is the best gun name ever, followed closely by Colt's "Peacemaker."

A Combat Masterpiece on one side, and a Combat Commander on the other, à la George Patton.

 

[CajunBass]

I aways thought of Colt as the Rough side of town. And, Smith as the Gated rich neighborhood

Funny, I'd have thought it the other way. Colts to me have always been more upscale, maybe it's just the Python, but even the lower tier guns were more expensive than an equal level Smith and Wesson.

I have fantasies of stubbing into a shop and finding a RM prefix and they not know what they got!

I used to hunt with guy who fancied L.C. Smith shotguns. He told me once, "There ain't no more ol' widder women" who think an "Elsie" is just an old shotgun they want to get rid of." Registered Magnums are the same.

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Drat! I miss all the good stuff.

S&W had some interesting names before they went to just model numbers.

Military & Police, Registered Magnum, and as mentioned previously, Combat Masterpiece, etc.

Shame they replaced them with featureless numbers.

For a long time, they used both the number and the name. I remember seeing the first copy of Guns and Ammo magazine I ever saw at a Peoples Drug Store when I was a teen. COOL! A magazine about nothing but guns? Who knew? Across the front page was a picture of a revolver, enblazoned with the words "SMITH AND WESSON MODEL 19, COMBAT MAGNUM!!

Man, that was what a handgun was supposed to look like. That picture all but made sure a "Model 19 Combat Magnum" was my first handgun (with some minor competition from the Colt Python, but that was eleminated early when I saw the price difference, even in 1978 or so.) For a long time they used both model numbers and names. Not many people remember that the 5/686 series were originally called the "Distinguished Combat Magnum" I don't think.

I don't know when they stopped using names or if they even have. I still see the name "Combat Magnum" used for both the Model 19 and the Model 69. They still use "Ladysmith" and "Masterpiece" also.

 

[Old_Grouch]

I like it better than Smiths numerical model numbers.

Sometimes it makes no sense, the model 357 is a 41 magnum for crying out loud!!!

Yep. Almost as bad as Glock.
45 - 9mm
44 - 22 LR
40 - 10mm
22 - .40 S&W
41 - .45 ACP

 

[HowardC]

My wife's hobby is snakes. She has over 2 dozen of them.

Oldest boy was/is into snakes. Pythons and tree boas. Had a 4 ft African rock python loose in the house for about 6 months. Never could find it, then it appeared one day. Noticeable lack of mice around the place hehe.
_West out

 

[Mal H]

UncleEd had his say on the naming of Colt's, and then it started getting downright silly (much of which is now gone). Closed.