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Been wanting a 4” Colt Anaconda or Kodiak, but was waiting to see if they’d bring out a 45 Colt. Well, while walking around the Vegas Speedway Show yesterday, my impulsiveness got the better of me and I folded like a lawn chair. Came home with a 4” Kodiak in 44 mag…and a cherry 2.5” 19-7. :) It’s actually the first -7 I’d ever seen.
 

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Some nice 6 shooters there CH4..:)

I would really like a 4 inch BLUED Anaconda / Kodiak. The blued Pythons are nice, and tempting, but it seems whenever I head into the woods, or the range, the caliber of the revolvers I normally carry all seem to start with ".44".

Larry
 
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I too, really want one in .45Colt. Any thoughts or experience with the porting on these? Does the recoil reduction make up for any excessive flame or lead shavings from the ports? The small holes just look so much less than the larger seen in MagnaPorting/etc.
 
Those are a couple of fine looking revolvers. Could you do a review on how the Kodiak shoots? I am interested in how it feels with full power .44 mags.
 
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Those are a couple of fine looking revolvers. Could you do a review on how the Kodiak shoots? I am interested in how it feels with full power .44 mags.
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Hickok 45 does a good review. Shoots all kinds of loads from 44 spl to Underwood.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nwVe6ASHc5E&pp=ygUMQ29sdCBLb2RpYWsg[/ame]
 
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There were 2 minor things I didn’t like about my 4 inch Anaconda:
The front sight was too short. I found a replacement on the internet for about $40. I put the new front sight on. The gun shoots right on the money now.

I dislike the SA trigger pull on all my new Colts. I have a 3 and 4 in Pythons. 4 and 6 inch Anacondas. The 4 inches is on its way back from the gunsmith as I write this. It’s immediately going to Magnaport to have the barrel ported. It’ll be my “home made” Kodiak.

Fighting the trigger all the way, before I sent it off to the gunsmith to have the trigger’s single action addressed, I could put five, 240 XTPs around 1.75” at 25Y from a rest. My gunsmith asked me how it shot, and I said, great. He said the crown needed attention. I told him to re-crown it. He said the gun should shoot better now. I told him the gun may shoot better, but I’m maxed out at 1.5-1.75 inches for 5 shots at 25 with iron sights.

Me personally, I don’t shoot light loads in anything that says Magnum on the barrel. I have CZ 9MMs that shoot 147s at 1000 fps if I want to shoot something lighter recoiling. Or lighter recoiling still is the good old 22 in my 617 or M41. My Anaconda still wears the rubber grip. The Anaconda is a very big revolver. It about 110% of a 629. The recoil is not a sharp snap. It’s more like a big shove. I’m having mine Magnaported mostly for fun, and looks.

The cylinder on an Anaconda is really long and greater in diameter than a 629. I’d be willing to bet that adventurous handloaders could get some really impressive numbers if the extended the OAL do their loaded rounds.
 
Yendor357 said:
There were 2 minor things I didn’t like about my 4 inch Anaconda:
The front sight was too short. I found a replacement on the internet for about $40. I put the new front sight on. The gun shoots right on the money now.

I dislike the SA trigger pull on all my new Colts. I have a 3 and 4 in Pythons. 4 and 6 inch Anacondas. The 4 inches is on its way back from the gunsmith as I write this. It’s immediately going to Magnaport to have the barrel ported. It’ll be my “home made” Kodiak.

Fighting the trigger all the way, before I sent it off to the gunsmith to have the trigger’s single action addressed, I could put five, 240 XTPs around 1.75” at 25Y from a rest. My gunsmith asked me how it shot, and I said, great. He said the crown needed attention. I told him to re-crown it. He said the gun should shoot better now. I told him the gun may shoot better, but I’m maxed out at 1.5-1.75 inches for 5 shots at 25 with iron sights.

Me personally, I don’t shoot light loads in anything that says Magnum on the barrel. I have CZ 9MMs that shoot 147s at 1000 fps if I want to shoot something lighter recoiling. Or lighter recoiling still is the good old 22 in my 617 or M41. My Anaconda still wears the rubber grip. The Anaconda is a very big revolver. It about 110% of a 629. The recoil is not a sharp snap. It’s more like a big shove. I’m having mine Magnaported mostly for fun, and looks.

The cylinder on an Anaconda is really long and greater in diameter than a 629. I’d be willing to bet that adventurous handloaders could get some really impressive numbers if the extended the OAL do their loaded rounds.
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All new generation Colt revolvers were built to pass the CA drop-test requirement...that's the reason behind the often criticized single-action pull. No matter having a transfer bar prevents the gun from firing if dropped on a cocked hammer means anything to the fools in CA and any other state with such requirements. A good gunsmith can improve the single-action pull...there are a few that know how.

The Anaconda was designed around the .454 round...that's he reason for the longer cylinder. Whether Colt will actually ever produce any for the round is an open question. It was released as a .44 Magnum first which is sensible...a bigger market and gets the gun proven in the field by users before additional chamberings. If the .454 gets produced it can easily be shot with .45 Colt as well.
 
I've handled a couple of the Kodiaks in local gun shops lately. Would like to have one as a companion to my 6" Anaconda, just can't quite justify it at this point as much as I'd like too!
 
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Yendor357 said:
There were 2 minor things I didn’t like about my 4 inch Anaconda:
The front sight was too short. I found a replacement on the internet for about $40. I put the new front sight on. The gun shoots right on the money now.

It’s immediately going to
Magnaport to have the barrel ported. It’ll be my “home made” Kodiak.
I’m having mine Magnaported mostly for fun, and looks.

Magnaporting just for looks is a great way to reduce the value of a nice revolver by about 20%
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My guns aren’t for sale.
I don’t care what others think about me nor my possessions.
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CH4 said:
Been wanting a 4” Colt Anaconda or Kodiak, but was waiting to see if they’d bring out a 45 Colt. Well, while walking around the Vegas Speedway Show yesterday, my impulsiveness got the better of me and I folded like a lawn chair. Came home with a 4” Kodiak in 44 mag…and a cherry 2.5” 19-7. :) It’s actually the first -7 I’d ever seen.
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Eggcellent choices!

You know, it seems the 44M just doesn't get the respect it deserves! There's a reason Elmer Keith chose to develop the 44 bore over the 45 bore back when! The natural presumption is due to cylinder wall thickness and that's certainly relevant, but the 44 bore was more consistent in dimensions, not having been an amalgamation of different dimensions. the 44 bore also has slightly better ballistics in that a 240 grain bullet was fully capable of downing ANYTHING in North America, as Elmer Keith demonstrated time after time. Going "heavy" is a post-modern fallacy that actually reduces magnum handgun effectiveness, and both the 44 and 45 are beset by provocateurs' who pursue this format.

Point being, the Anaconda in 44 magnum is a factory ready, turn-key solution to dropping ANYTHING from the tip of South America to Barrow Alaska and all points between! Does this mean I'm not a fan of magnumized 45s? Not at all, just that there isn't a "magnum" version of the 45 Colt - yes the 454 Casull, but not the 45 Colt, which means no "turn-key" complete package such as exists with the 44 magnum. Is a bear more likely to bound away because it was hit by a bullet 2-hundred's of an inch smaller in diameter making statistically identical energy? Only in a magazine article designed to sell guns and ammo.

Fact is, once delivered energy equals or exceeds one kilojoule, whatever caliber that is will reliably put down dangerous animals given proper shot placement. As Shakespeare once pontificated, "A rose by any other name is still a rose."
 
I'm a die hard 629 and 29 guy, and always will be, but I've always kicked myself for not getting one of the early Anacondas. So when they came around again, I jumped on one last year. While S&W's will always be my favorite, I'm hooked on that Anaconda and find myself shooting it about once per week. As mentioned the trigger isn't great, but I shoot it about as well as any of my S&W's, with much better triggers, so I don't think I'm going to worry about it.
My front sight was too low also. I couldn't find a hunting style red ramp available in the height I wanted, but I found that a slight modification of a cheap blade for a S&W fit great - and it looks right when installed.
I almost feel like a trader enjoying a Colt so much... but it seems to beg to tag along on every trip to the range.
 
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