Today’s Anaconda is basically an upsized version of the new Python, and internally, it has nothing in common with the old revolver of the same name. The Anaconda is the big news for 2021, and like all handguns now produced by Colt, it is built at the historic Hartford, Connecticut, factory. Leaping forward to 2017, Colt introduced a redesigned version of the Cobra, followed by the King Cobra in 2019 and the Python in 2020.
38 Special, built during 1977 only, and the Boa in. 38 Special in 1950, and it remained in production for 31 years. To touch on a bit more history, the first of Colt’s deadly serpents to emerge was the Cobra in. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with Colt’s Anaconda, it is the big-bore member of the company’s family of “snake” revolvers and was originally produced from 1990 to 1999.
