Anyone carry a Colt Detective Special?

[bronco45]

Pocket carry this Cobra a lot. It's carried in a Galco pocket rig, loaded with the FBI load from Remington. Pictured here with an EPS holster that is worn in winter months.:

 

[straightshooter1]

Yes! A Cobra that had been carried a lot, but was mechanically great. I sent it to Karl Sokol, who did a trigger job and refinished it in the Black T type finish (I forget what HE calls the finish). He also installed the shroud for me.

 

[Erich]

Bronco, are you borrowing my gun when I'm not around?

Oh, I see that yours says "Cobra" on it.

 

[38-44HD45]

Straightshooter, how uncomfortable to shoot is that Cobra with the Eagle grips and hammer shroud? My Colt Ds with hammer shrouds bite hell out of the web of my hand, except when I put modified Pachmayr Compacs on them.

 

[straightshooter1]

It doesn't bother me to shoot it.

Funny you should ask, though, as SOME Colt snubbies, (DS, Cobras, Agents) do bother me a bit when I shoot them. I think it is the trigger bouncing off my finger.

What's wierd is that most Colts don't do that, just some.

I have heard others say this, too and IIRC someone was slightly reconfiguring the triggers.

I just checked my paperwork and Karl Sokol did do something to the trigger to stop that-called it RD Trigger, which I guess is round the trigger.

Not a great picture, but maybe you can see that my trigger is more rounded, more of a semi-circle than the others pictured.

But, the shroud never bites me. I should carry this one more that the rare times I do.

Bob

 

[Agent6-3/8]

I used to carry a 70's vintage DS. It belonged to my grandfather and was my first CCW. Its been all but retired for several years now in favor of either a 1911, Glock 19 or 442.

 

[Cocked & Locked]

I traded this Cobra so I don't get to carry it anymore.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Those are the EXACT grips I want on mine! Along with a bronze Tyler T-grip.

If I could just find some.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Originally posted by Photoman44:
This from Mas Ayoob...scroll to the bottom of the page...

Detective Specials

Nice read.

 

[bronco45]

Erich: I had an Agent with a shroud I traded years ago but this ole Colt isn't going anywhere, unless it goes with me.

How I long for the remake of the Colt DS or Cobra.

Enjoy your Colt as you know they are wonderfully accurate with a great action.

Tom

 

[David LaPell]

A carry and old and well worn Colt Agent.

 

[j38]

My DS still gets some carry time - deservedly. It is accurate and very easy to shoot.

Regards,

Jerry

 

[Grayfox]

First gun I ever legally carried was a 1975 3rd Issue DS. With the Pachmyer grips its looks just like the one Barb C posted.
But then my wife discovered it.......
I do still get visitation rights now and then.

 

[Class III]

I've got three, all 3rd gen D frames. First is a near new 1974 blue that is a safe queen as she has her original box and papers and has exactly 24 rounds put through her plus the factory firing. Second is a 1977 that was blued and has been Teflon coated, she ain't purdy but boy can she shoot the x out of a target at 25 yards. The third is what is on my ankle in a Bianci #12 as I post this, a 1978 nickel that shoots to POA at 25 yards. I do my part and she will do hers. I had a fourth but made the mistake of putting on the table at a gun show in Knoxville, TN to fill in a hole on the table. It was a NIB w/papers blue that looks suspiciously likes Barbs, but this one had the factory wood grips. I put a price of $1150.00 on it just to keep people away from it. Just my luck, someone came up and wanted to trade a Ruger Mini 14 SS Ranch with ten thirty round mags and eight twenty round mags. I took his Mini plus the mags plus $600.00 and he took my DS. All the Mini 14 mags were factory mags and most were NIB. And this was during the clinton (intentionally not capitalized) ban era. I felt so bad about this deal that I gave him two speed loaders, a double speed loader holster and an IWB holster that I had the Teflon coated DS in. Don’t blame me for this deal; he is the one that pushed it to this level.

Edit

All of mine currently are 2" barrel models.
The one I sold in Knoxville was a 3" barrel. Just looked it up in my bound book. Sorry Barb yours was not exactly like mine.

 

[tshyde]

Just picked up a 1958 vintage Agent that was worked over by Cylinder & Slide. Trying to decide on a couple of holsters next. What are you using for pocket carry and OWB carry?

Thanks!

 

[Erich]

Pocket - Mika.

Don't carry OWB . . .

 

[KSCowboy]

OWB I use a Bell Charter Oaks "Gumshoe" that Lefty made me.

http://bellcharteroakholsters.com/index.htm

I don't see a picture of it on his site but email him and he can send a pic to you. It's kind of a neat retro holster.

 

[safearm]

I used to have a circa-70's factory nickel Detective Special with Colt walnut grips, until my wife decided she wanted to carry it as her gun. Now if I want to remember the good old days, I have to look in my wife's purse.

 

[gold40]

My "old style" Detective Special is almost mint, so I can't bring myself to actually carry it. So, I carry a 2" M-64 instead.

 

[yes]

Had a DS but sold it. Have an old, unshrouded Agent with a hammer shroud and T grip that I regularly carry in a pocket holster. Fabulous carry piece.