Posted: 8/8/2006 12:53:45 PM EDT
| I have a 357 King Cobra in perfect condition. I just read in someone elses thread that Python's arent being made anymore. Could some one give me a quick run down as to if the King Cobra is still made and what the differences are btwn that and a Python? If there not made anymore, What are they worth? excuse the noobnes please....... |
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All Colt DA revolvers are discountinued. Prices have been erractic of late. King Cobra is a decent rig but not one of the "hot" ones. King Cobra was made with the later Trooper Mk III lockwork, a completely different set up than the Python. It was intended to be cheaper to produce, the old Colt lockwork required a lot of hand fitting. Just wasn't practical in today's market. Not sure what the going rate on KC's are. No where near Python money. |
Value of your KC will vary depending on whether it's blued or stainless, and where you live (in addition to the buyer's assessment of its condition - your description as "perfect" notwithstanding  ). Check gunbroker and gunsamerica to see what similar guns have been selling for nationally lately. KCs are getting harder to find in really good shape, and I've been seeing them selling well into the $400s (blued and stainless). Ikor is correct that they are very strong: Kuhnhausen (writing in the late '80s) said they were the strongest .357s on the market at the time. Just this weekend I used my KC to shoot some way-over-current-max loads from the Speer #10 Manual - wow!  Pythons are more hand-fitted and have a different lockwork. They also have a different bore (gets tighter as it nears the muzzle), and a nicer level of finish all around. |
I have a Colt Double Eagle model 1. Colt came out with the version 2 to correct for some initial criticizms. Initially, people thought it was good gun, but magazine writer Mas Aayoob, panned it because when you remove the right grip panel the workings for the DA, a tirgger bar and a spring that held it place fell out, plus it was a rather heavy DA pull. To me, and I'm not an expert, but it was not that heavy trigger pull, but the long trigger travel. The SA was pretty good. It was super realiable, never a babble on factory ammo, I shot about ~200 rounds. True there could be some collector interest in the All-Ameircan 2000 because it was designed and made with contract parts from Eugene Stoner. There wasn't very many made. I haven't handled any personally, so I can't make any comments in that department. This gun had an interchangeable barrels, factory was 4", and 2.75 was available as an option. I don't know if there are actually any 2.75" barrels available, but I remember that Colt advertised they had some(my guess is that it is probably a not very many). After awhile, they couldn't sell the gun, they bundled the long & short barrels together as an added inducement to sell the gun. Stoner was among the creditors owed for All-American 2000 parts & services when Colt went bankrupt. |