Here is how it works. Coltistas worship at the feet of the Prancing Horse. Coltistas will tell you in no uncertain terms, the Colt SA is the finest SA on the planet. Do NOT ATTEMPT to speak otherwise. You will be SHOUTED down. Loudly. Never mind that view is KRAP.
COLT KNOWS for a fact, Coltistas will buy everything Colt makes, whatever they make, whenever they make it. Good or bad. There is basically no attention paid to what orders are do where. There are only two, sometimes three guys at Colt assembling SAs. That's it. They assemble whatever comes down the line, then they ship guns to their prime dealers. The Coltistas champion those guns no matter what they are. Colt doesn't care they aren't making enough guns. They have other irons in the fire. And they are going broke. Slowly dying. Believe it.
Colt single action guns have all the same problems the other makers of SAs have for the CAS market. Over Sprung, out of time, poor fit of action parts and take just as much work to make user friendly as Uberti. Colt knows most of the Coltistas will never play with their guns. They see their guns as a piece of "history." That's BUNK. Nothing more than a newly built SA. THAT'S IT.
The best value for dollar in a CAS gun today is a Pietta built GW II. You can get a pair for the price of a Colt. I personally hate the term "CLONE." (Have I said that before??). The replicas aren't clones. They're reproductions. Replicas. Copies. By in Large, better made than Colt guns. Considering the HUGE selection available in reproductions from the established manufacturers, introducing a new copy of the SAA, priced well out of the competitive range, is a fools errand.
Soap Box Mode off. Back to our regularly scheduled programming
Coffinmaker