Colt has has a history of making firearms that seem to be total afterthoughts. The Double Eagle which was produced for about 8 years was one such pistol. The Colt 2000 is another. The Double...
I’m an Old Revolver Cop (ORC) and I’ve carried revolvers since, uh, never mind. I always switched out the factory grips for Pachmayr Compacs on all my revolvers (J-frames, K-frames, and D-frames). I just checked and Pachmayr still makes them for D-frames. Assuming the new Cobra has the same grip frame as the old D-frames do, you can switch out this bulbous, Shockwave-like grip for a real...
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The Colt Double Eagle is a double-action / single action, semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company between 1989 and 1997. It was the first double-action semiautomatic pistol offered by the company and was available in standard full-size, as well as in more compact versions.
The Eagle has landed: Colt billed the Double Eagle as using a “state of the art shooting system” that brought a double-action and “large-bore punch” when the gun hit the market in 1989.
The Double Eagle was born in the 1990s out of Colt’s ambition to be competitive in the world of pistols which offer double action as well as single action. Picture a 1911 without a grip safety nor thumb safety, with a trigger which pivots instead of sliding, and with a decocker which lives between the slide release and the mag release — and ...
The Double Eagle was Colt’s foray into the DA/SA pistol market in the 1990s. It was effectively just a standard 1911 with a Seecamp-type double action trigger mechanism and a modernized (for the time) trigger guard profile. Available in .45ACP, 10mm, 9mm, .40 S&W, and .38 Super, it never did sell well and was discontinued in 1997 (having been ...
Colt has has a history of making firearms that seem to be total afterthoughts. The Double Eagle which was produced for about 8 years was one such pistol. The...