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12/24/2020 3:05:15 PM
 
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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Blue Colt Msg# 1107340
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I was embarrassed for Colt when it brought out that gun. Colt seems to connect itself to the color blue. It still offers its Competition and Gold Cup models with blue grip panels. When they first came out the Competition models with fiber optic sights came with red, green and blue fiber optic bars and they came from the factory with the blue bar installed. I guess nobody at Colt had ever tried to use the blue sight because it was obviously the worst of the three choices in almost any ambient light. Soon after, they started shipping with the red bar installed.
If I had been shopping for a Colt Defender I would have passed on that blue one... |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: This is a message to all. This photo popped up on the home page. See my original comment below. Three years later I note in checking that Colt no longer catalogues this pistol in "Kimber Blue." Apparently the consumers who buy 1911s for looks above all didn't flock to Colt for them. Colt still sells a couple of models with what are now almost traditional gray or green frames, dead common with plastic pistols, less common with steel or aluminum frames, but then Springfield offers them by the dozens. But this pretty pretty blue must not have resonated with customers who buy the Colt product. I have to ask out loud, did Colt learn anything from this? Colt has been trying to re-learn their identity for thirty or more years, I'm afraid.... Image below from Mark Freburg - Image Title: photos  |
