Colt Police Positive vs Official Police

[funkychinaman]

Yeah, that was me that asked. I was hoping there was a way to make the ID using the gun alone. After, you probably won't get a convenient screencap of the two guns side by side.

Is the cylinder release the same size on both pistols? Maybe it's possible to make an ID based on the size of the gun in relation to that.

Hmm, I always assumed the DS was a shortened OP. Thanks.

[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.