I was looking around on Colt’s website thinking about getting one of those new semi customs and ran across this. I knew without even looking this had TALO written all over it. They sure seem to love this sort of thing. I refer to it as a “El Jefe special” they like this sort of thing down there. It’d different I guess and Colt collectors will be after one I’m sure. Not my sort of thing but I have to admit it does have a certain Zazz to it.
This is what I have been pondering getting.
I been hearing some really good things about this model. But you know, it pisses me off. Colt will do damn near anything except just make an accurate M1911A1 USGI issue repro. Giving it the roll marks, short trigger and safety of a GI model feels like just rubbing my nose in it.
More annoying is that everyone I knew at Colt has been fired by CZ so the days of getting anything I want to T&E are over, CZ doesn’t have any interest in that. I suppose maybe if you are the Editor of Guns and Ammo it might make a difference but seems even that doesn’t pull enough weight.
Scattered Shots 
I’m glad you said that fucking gold thing wasn’t your cup of tea (as we say here in Australia), because if you said it set your heart on fire I would’ve had to deny all knowledge of you.
The Australian War memorial here in Canberra Australia has a gold plated AK style gun (one of the short barrelled variants, IIRC) captured from one of Saddam’s palaces by Australian troops back in the day, and it’s one of the ugliest, most disturbing things I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen lots of ugly, disturbing shit in my time.
As for Colts, I just saw my second ever Colt revolver the other day, after almost 50 years on the range. For whatever reason, Colt really aren’t big in Australia. I suppose they’re so big that they just don’t give a shit about small export markets like us.
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you know, I was thinking about this the other day. Even here in the US I notice there are some brands in some reasons you just never see or you see them so rarely that it may as well be never. All my life I never saw a Winchester Model 70 anywhere close to where I live. It wasn’t until the late 2000s I started seeing them in stores. Never have I seen Sako rifle for sale until very recently. I have noticed a region will have this thing where everyone gets into a lockstep about what brand or models are ” the best” and that is all you see and you can go 2 states away and see a flood of brands you never see back home.
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I wonder how closely the rose gold Colt matches Apple’s rose gold iPhones and MacBooks.
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