COLT’s latest “snake gun” is the resurrected King Cobra, featuring a heavy-duty stainless steel frame complete with a full-underlug, 3" barrel and a six-round, fluted cylinder.

Between 1955 and 1998 Colt designed and sold the Python, Diamondback, Cobra, Anaconda, King Cobra, Boa and Viper. The lines spanned the gamut of calibers, barrel lengths and receiver sizes.

Wiley Clapp was around for the Python's introduction in 1955. In this first of a three-part series, he journeys through the early days of this now legendary Colt revolver and ponders its ...

Colt was well known for making some of the finest revolvers the world has ever seen, with classic such as the Colt Python, Detective Special, and original Cobra and King Cobra revolvers.