![]() The double-action trigger pull was a happier story, as it was plenty smooth and light enough for accurate rapid-fire shooting. The single-action pull was quite smooth with no creep and only a trace of overtravel, but its average weight on my Lyman digital scale was a bit heavy at 5.75 pounds. Said another way, its mainspring is the leaf-type rather than the coil-type. The gun also has what is described by Colt as an LL2 Linear Leaf Trigger System. The transfer bar safety system of the Anaconda requires a frame-mounted firing pin. 44 Magnum cases flying from heavily fouled chambers. Chamber wall thickness is 0.120 inch.Īn extractor star travel of 0.970 inch proved to be plenty long for sending spent. The cylinder had slight amounts of rotational looseness and endshake, but considering the impressive accuracy of the gun, neither was enough to matter. Cylinder gap at lockup was a snug 0.005 inch. With diameters ranging from 0.4310 inch to 0.4314 inch, the new Anaconda’s chamber throats were quite uniform. ![]() The original Anaconda had a coil-type mainspring. With the Hogue rubber grip removed, Colt’s relatively new LL2 Linear Leaf Trigger System’s leaf mainspring is visible. And for those who believe increasing free-travel of lighter bullets from case to barrel engagement harms the accuracy of a revolver, I will point out that when fired from the Anaconda, the handload carrying the stubby Hornady 240-grain XTP averaged just 3.14 inches at 100 yards. I hasten to add that lighter bullets are capable of handling most of the game taken by most handgun hunters, but when an enraged bear is headed your way and no other option remains, the increased penetration and huge energy delivery of a long, heavy, hard-cast bullet is good to have. Close to 200 rounds of full-power rounds were fired, and the mounting system never loosened or budged. Loctite 248 applied to the threads of all screws was allowed to dry for a week prior to the gun being shot. That put fully loaded weight at 5.0 pounds. When accuracy testing the Anaconda at 100 yards from an MTM K-Zone handgun rest, I used a Nikon Force XR 2.5-8X handgun scope attached to the rail with three rings from Weigand Combat Handguns. The optic rail is held in place by the three screws, while the recoil load is handled by contact of a thick integral shoulder at the bottom of the rail with a vertical flat machined into the frame for rear-sight clearance. ![]() 44 Magnum Anaconda is being offered with 6.0- and 8.0-inch barrels. When switching back to the open sight, use a small plastic mallet to gently drive the pin back into position. Using a small screwdriver, remove the elevation screw and its spring, push out the horizontal pin with a 2.5mm punch, and the job is done. Two holes are in permanent view, and a third is exposed when the rear sight is removed. 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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