
The Anaconda is a descendant of the large-frame Colt New Service revolver (bottom) this version is the Model 1909, made for the U.S. It stayed in the catalog until 1999, was dropped, then reemerged in 2001, only to be dropped again in 2003. 45 Colt, it looked like an enlarged Python, with its vent-rib, full-underlug barrel. Other than the Single Action Army revolver, Colt didn’t have a large-bore revolver until 1990, when production began on the Anaconda. The New Service was dropped from the Colt catalog in 1944. Border Patrol and the NY State Police among other law enforcement agencies. This big wheelgun became the platform for the Colt Model 1909 and Model 1917-both used in wartime by the U.S. This large-frame revolver is the great-grandson of the Colt New Service, a large-frame swing-out cylinder, double-action (DA) revolver first introduced in 1898. The biggest news, however, is that after an 18-year absence, 2021 has seen the reintroduction of the Anaconda. More big news came in 2020 when the Python was reintroduced and again became a bestseller. Since then, the Cobra line has been expanded to include several versions in.

New “Snake Guns” have been rolling out of Colt Manufacturing since the Cobra came out in 2017. The Colt Anaconda was reintroduced in 2021.
