However, the pull did give a clean break, and as we’ll shortly see, the heavy single action pull did not seem to impair the gun’s accuracy.Īs noted, the DA pull was very sweet, and the SA pull crisp, if a bit heavy, and as also noted earlier, it felt distinctly muzzle heavy. As I’ve found with the 2021 Python, SA pull on Colt’s current model, big six-guns tend to be heavier than we were accustomed to with 20th Century Colts. On a Lyman digital scale from Brownells, pull weight averaged 10 lbs., 1.4 oz. The custom work would have brought those guns up to at least the same price as the 2021 Anaconda. 44 Mags that were better were custom guns: a 29 built by Russ Jefferson, a 629 tuned by the late great Andy Cannon, and a Super Redhawk with action by Ron Power. Several auto pistol shooters could not detect any stacking at all. As soon as the shooting got a little bit faster, it felt to the several of us who handled it that the pull seemed perfectly even. Only the most experienced trigger finger will feel any “stack,” or increase in resistance in the double action stroke, and then only in the slowest of slow fire. The updated lockwork also gives this gun a very sweet double action trigger pull, as good or better than its current competition out of the box. It was this signature Colt feature that always helped give the Python and the old Officer’s Model target revolvers their reputation for unsurpassed accuracy, and it’s good to see it in this newest Colt revolver. With the trigger back and the hammer down, its second cylinder hand locks the chamber in line with the barrel absolutely motionless. I tried a couple of old Anacondas from the Jeff Boss collection and found they each had a very slight cylinder wobble. The Anaconda’s finish was nicely polished: not quite comparable to the Royal Blue of a 1955 Python, but really, what is anymore? A Redhawk is a quarter pound lighter than the Anaconda with the same barrel length, and the Super Redhawk will exactly equal the 6″ Anaconda’s weight if the Ruger has a 71/2″ barrel. It’s roughly three-quarters of a pound heavier than the standard S&W 629. Like the Python before it, the Anacondas have a full-length barrel underlug bringing the weight, and point of balance, forward toward the muzzle making it feel even heavier when extended to arm’s length. Here we test a 6″ barrel sample designed to compete with S&W’s Model 629 and Ruger’s Redhawk and Super Redhawk. However, those who did own them generally loved them, and it became a case of “you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” When Colt returned to the DA wheel-gun market recently, with updated Cobra and then Python models, the Anaconda seemed a natural follow-up. 44 Magnum revolver market, and at a time when Colt was phasing out of that type of handgun, thus it never gained great popularity. Manufactured from approximately 1990 to 2003, the massive Colt Anaconda came late to the DA.
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