Colt’s newest 10mm 1911, the Two-Tone Delta Elite with Novak sights, borrows the cool of high-end custom 1911s from the 10mm’s early years. Fans of the 10mm owe a lot to the Colt Delta Elite. Sure, the Bren 10 gets all the hype, but that gun got more years on screen than it did in … Read more
Colt pistols are – supposedly – going to be all that the company will be to selling to the public once the current inventory of their AR-platform rifles sells out. Granted, it could be that they’re just doing this to stoke demand, which wouldn’t be the first time that a gunmaker — or any manufacturer … Read more
On March 29, 1911, Lt. Col. John T. Thompson of the U.S. Ordnance Department sent a letter to Colt’s in Hartford, Connecticut. The purpose was to inform them that the military testing held at Springfield Armory just two weeks prior had concluded and John Moses Browning’s 1911 design produced by Colt had come out on … Read more
Walking through the Cabelas Gun Library recently, a pistol caught my eye. A base model Colt Government Model Series 80 normally wouldn’t get a second look. It’s not that I don’t like them, it’s because I already have them, and I know the guns well enough. The USGI configuration Colt is what I compare all … Read more
You may remember our report back in March noting that Colt had laid off a number of employees in its custom shop and had stopped taking orders for custom work. It was another bad sign for the rampant pony, given the company’s downturn over the last decade. The good news, though, is that the Connecticut-based … Read more
There’s been some talk of bringing back the .45 in US military circles for years – basically since the Beretta M9 was adopted. Well, for the US Marine special operators, that talk has been pretty much put to bed – at least for the time being. The Marine Times reports that Marine Corps Forces Special … Read more
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