Colt Police Positive vs Official Police

[Nyles]

No, they're in proportion to the rest of the gun. Just going by eyeball on mine, the only parts that might be interchangable are the screws.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Nyles

No, they're in proportion to the rest of the gun. Just going by eyeball on mine, the only parts that might be interchangable are the screws.

Oh well. (And that just seems really inefficient from a manufacturing standpoint.)

[Jcordell]

Oh well. (And that just seems really inefficient from a manufacturing standpoint.)

You nailed it. As I've gotten into collecting both S&W and Colt handguns I've come to realize that S&W has always been a better run company. More efficent, better organized, less chaotic in it's product development and output. Colt has made some great guns over the years and in some aspects better than S&W, but Smith is just tighter. Even in the bad old Bangor-Punta days in the seventies and eighties S&W was a better run company. Also S&W has better relationships with the fans. Colt tends to be a little more distant and harder to get info out of.

[Spartan198]

Colt has a long, storied history and they're proud of it. But the thing about such pride is that it's easy to confuse with elitism and snobbishness.