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12-03-2018, 03:24 PM | #1 |
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Why the Colt Offensive Handgun lost the bid to make the next SOCOM handgun
I never saw what Colt entered in the competition. I just found it on YouTube. H&K won, and I can see why Colt lost. The entry by Colt was a Rube Goldberg device.
It was about as intricate as a Luger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnY6FSLFy3c
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12-03-2018, 04:16 PM | #2 |
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03-26-2019, 09:11 PM | #3 |
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It even looks like some abortion some guy cobbled together in his garage from a box of spare parts from a variety of different handguns. I'm sure ze Germans had something that looked production-ready from the start. America used to be able to do great things, but we started sucking when top management started signing off on "it's good enough" designs that tried to maximize production values from existing ideas so they could slap together something cheaply with already amortized equipment and R&D.
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04-01-2019, 09:18 AM | #4 |
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It's definitely a work in progress. I actually like most of their ideas, just not their execution. With more time and improvement I think it had potential, but it was definitely not ready for prime time when submitted. I'm sure they knew that. ...but time constraints are time constraints.
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04-01-2019, 12:37 PM | #5 |
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Why try to reinvent the wheel when you have proven performers out there like Glock & SIG?
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04-09-2019, 07:25 AM | #6 |
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Kinda pitiful.
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