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12/26/2020 12:19:29 PM

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Section 8: Handguns
Subject: Blue Colt Msg# 1107399

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TJ Parmele

Joined 6/1/2005

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

Yeah, I think CDNN was trying to blow them out.
Not interested in colored pistols at all outside of Blued or Stainless steel and black plastic.

I also own no Springfield product at the moment either.

I think Colt needs to go back to its Sam Colt roots and offer stuff that will sell, or that people will pay for.

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
Image Info: Colt, apparently to improve sales, has stooped to copying Kimber and their use of colored frames as a way of selling pistols. I understand Colt's position, but I personally find this pistol as ugly and undesirable as all the colored Kimbers.

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