Anonymous
6/10/2025, 4:54:39 AM
No.63808898
>>63808428
Haven’t fired the new ones but handled several.
Double action is smoother than most or all of the other .44 magnum revolvers I’ve handled. One gun, a 4.25” Kodiak, was competitive with a Korth I dry fired.
Single action is decent but a lot less noteworthy. Better than a Redhawk’s, but not by that much. Can be massively improved upon if you feel like spending more money.
Allegedly uses very high quality stainless steel, very hard and tough. A few MIM parts but they’re low stress and/or non-load bearing, and even the MIM is supposedly better/more consistent than other manufacturers’. It’s meant to be durable enough to be produced in .454 Casull, although that has yet to be released. Heffron Precision writes in greater detail about the design in his blog. It’s much closer to an oversized new Python than the legacy Anacondas.
Cylinder is very long, about 1.91”, so you can load heavy bullets further out.
Main problems: Factory rear sight is kind of garbage. The stock Hogue grips leave the metal backstrap exposed, which translates to more felt recoil than necessary, and also get in the way of speedloaders a bit. The most common QC issue seems to be light striking on magnum primers in double action, which it seems Colt CS will usually fix but sometimes will not. Heffron Precision will apparently replace and/or tune the relevant parts as part of a package upgrade if you send the gun off to them.
Haven’t fired the new ones but handled several.
Double action is smoother than most or all of the other .44 magnum revolvers I’ve handled. One gun, a 4.25” Kodiak, was competitive with a Korth I dry fired.
Single action is decent but a lot less noteworthy. Better than a Redhawk’s, but not by that much. Can be massively improved upon if you feel like spending more money.
Allegedly uses very high quality stainless steel, very hard and tough. A few MIM parts but they’re low stress and/or non-load bearing, and even the MIM is supposedly better/more consistent than other manufacturers’. It’s meant to be durable enough to be produced in .454 Casull, although that has yet to be released. Heffron Precision writes in greater detail about the design in his blog. It’s much closer to an oversized new Python than the legacy Anacondas.
Cylinder is very long, about 1.91”, so you can load heavy bullets further out.
Main problems: Factory rear sight is kind of garbage. The stock Hogue grips leave the metal backstrap exposed, which translates to more felt recoil than necessary, and also get in the way of speedloaders a bit. The most common QC issue seems to be light striking on magnum primers in double action, which it seems Colt CS will usually fix but sometimes will not. Heffron Precision will apparently replace and/or tune the relevant parts as part of a package upgrade if you send the gun off to them.