![]() The topstrap of the frame is drilled and tapped for mounting a Picatinny rail available from Colt. My Lyman Digital Borecam revealed extremely smooth six-groove, left-hand rifling. The barrel is fairly heavy, and the added weights of a ventilated rib along with a full-length underlug minimize muzzle rise when firing heavy loads. From 0.835 inch in diameter at the receiver, the barrel tapers to 0.825 inch at the muzzle, where it has a recessed crown. Switching out the front sight for another style is as easy as turning out a small retention screw at the front of the barrel rib.īarrel length options are 6.0 and 8.0 inches, and my test gun had the 8.0-inch barrel. Open sights consist of a fully adjustable leaf with a 0.130-inch notch at the rear and a 0.130-inch-wide ramped blade with red insert up front. A Real Handfulīuilt on Colt’s MM-size frame, the Anaconda is a handful, but its 59.4-ounce weight (for the 8.0-inch-barreled model) does a good job of dampening. Turning out a retention screw at the front of the barrel rib allows the 0.130-inch-wide red ramp front sight to be removed for replacement. Today’s Anaconda is basically an upsized version of the new Python, and internally, it has nothing in common with the old revolver of the same name. The Anaconda is the big news for 2021, and like all handguns now produced by Colt, it is built at the historic Hartford, Connecticut, factory. ![]() Leaping forward to 2017, Colt introduced a redesigned version of the Cobra, followed by the King Cobra in 2019 and the Python in 2020. 38 Special, built during 1977 only, and the Boa in. 38 Special in 1950, and it remained in production for 31 years. To touch on a bit more history, the first of Colt’s deadly serpents to emerge was the Cobra in. ![]() For the benefit of those who are not familiar with Colt’s Anaconda, it is the big-bore member of the company’s family of “snake” revolvers and was originally produced from 1990 to 1999.
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