It is a pretty gun. But it doesn't work. And, the more I hear about this, it makes me wonder if any of them work.
There appears to be an ongoing problem at Colt. A friend who works part time at the local gunshop asked about them, and the answer was a disparaging "yeah, typical Colt quality control..."
That one shop has, in the last 6 months gotten two (2) of
the exact same Colt, the King Cobra Target, brand new, and both had to be returned because they wouldn't work. One would not fire, the hammer strikes were too light to fire anything (at least three different brands of ammo were tried) and the other was so far out of time that the primer was struck too far off center to fire. EVERY TIME.
One bad gun here, another there, can be put down to the "everyone has a lemon get out once in a while" but there is a limit to coincidence, and I'd say the issues with the Colt King Cobra Target have gone beyond happenstance.
The old rule is, first time is happenstance, second time is coincidence, but the 3rd time is Enemy Action!
Still say the gun should go back to Colt to be fixed, but I now have less hope of Colt fixing their internal problems.