Just ran across this!
Anyone heard anything more about when they might actually be launching/available to buy??
I havenāt heard anything about the release timeline, but here is a thread that was started about this topic.
http://m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=45634
I think there MIGHT be another thread on this in the AR GD forum, but the search function isnāt working right on my work computer.
A Colt middy with a monolith rail would be the bomb.
Iām sure I said it in the other thread, but if itās like most things Colt they will be a day late, a dollar short, and listen to input from a bizarre choice of āexpertsā.
This was first mentioned during this years SHOT show. So now almost 6 months later, there is still nothing new. Plus the URL that they registered is dormant and the Facebook page they started has disappeared. Not looking too promisingā¦:rolleyes:
Yes would like to know this myself , contacted colt they had no clue what I was talking about !!!
Colt has definitely established a pattern of joining the party late, and then showing up with new models which often arouse more curiousity than admiration, but what bothers me is that they put so little emphasis into staying relevant for the civil market.
This whole āColt Tacticalā thing is confusing in the extreme. The boys roll into town for the industryās biggest symposium, set up their new displays, hang a few newish/reheated rifles on the wall, float a promising new URL and wait for us to work ourselves up into a lather.
Well, Colt ā here we are. What seems to be the trouble with www.colttactical.com? How is it that you cannot even seem to figure out how to launch a placeholder page? Iāll bet you could give a cool poster to a some 14-year-old at Hartford Middle School, and he could have something decent up and running in about an hour.
I could do it in 20 minutes ā and you can keep the poster.
Colt cannot seem to get marketing right, no matter how hard they try. Are they doing this āColt Tacticalā thing, or not? If so, is any of this still going to be relevant by the time they get around to fixing it? Colt is simply too big and too well-established a company to be making these kinds of errors, and the complete lack of follow-through here is simply beyond my comprehension.
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Iāve pretty much heard if you aināt Military or Law Enforcement, Colt doesnāt want your business. Too bad.
I donāt believe that is the case at all.
I would hope not. I wish they would go back to making Python revolvers personally.
Iām sure Colt wants as much business as they can get.
However, they donāt seem to be working particularly hard to make people (or at least myself) consider them over some of the other viable options. They put out some damn fine rifles. So do other companies. What, then, are the other facts that remain that we can use to make our final purchase decision?
Those other āfactorsā are what steered me towards BCM and slowly away from Colt when I bought my last AR. BCM has the quality, like Colt. However, they also have outstanding customer support and many options/configurations available.
Iād go with Colt if I want a basic M4 clone (6920). However, if I want anything else, especially mid-length, thereās simply too many other options to consider.
Sorry to derail the thread with yet another rant. However, it just seems that these Colt Tacticalās are a few years behind the curve. What do they bring to the table to make me consider them over something else? Perhaps Iām not the target market.
^^^^^ That is HK.
Negative. I have an arsenal of Colts. 80% of which have never been shot. All purchased as a civilian
Since weāre dissing Coltā¦ rant mode.
Coltā¦
You could own the market if youā¦
Take am M4 off the military lineā¦ and DONT DRILL THE THIRD HOLEā¦ maybe putting a 16" bbl on someā¦
itās that simpleā¦
We donāt want the sear blockā¦ (whoās illegally modding their rifles anywayā¦ NOBODY)
ā¦ we donāt want your big pinsā¦
we donāt want the ton of other stupid shit you doā¦ ājust for usāā¦ instead take the money you save not blocking us from doing shit we donāt do and lower the asking priceā¦ or whateverā¦
Ummā¦ When is the last time Colt made a Rifle with a sear block?
And they have been using normal pins for what? 2 years now.
Colt makes Rifles the Military wants. They are more than happy to sell Civilian versions to us but they are not going to make Middies, etc.
I donāt really know why Colt doesnāt market a mid-length monolithic rail carbine. Without doing that they are letting other companies run all over their potential business. With all the current methodology pointing towards better control when driving a weapon on target with a mid-length set-up and a longer grip, they are showing an inability to evolve to better tactics. This means they are failing to meet the demands of many consumers for a modern tactical carbine.
You are terribly misinformed. Please do more research before postingā¦
Why would they do that? The majority of the guns they make go to military. It would add considerable cost and complexity for them to make a relativity very small number of mid length guns for little benefit. They may in the future but its not something I see them jumping on unless the military goes mid length, too.
Colt R&D, production, and related activities are geared to serve the military, export, and government markets. That they only allocate small quantities of production to the commercial side, provide minimal support to that side, and have limited interest in expansion in that market doesnāt mean they are anti-commercial, it means they are focused elsewhere.
The commercial side is also finicky, tends to be high maintenance, and is a moving target requiring itās own unique sales, marketing, and support. Why take it on when youāve sold every unit you can produce in your focus area before you produce it?
All this isnāt unique to Colt. There are other manufacturers in other industries that likewise focus their efforts at a particular segment to the annoyance of others.
There are folks out there that are looking for some great conspiracy behind it all, or who have an axe to grind with Colt. Take a deep breath.
They havenāt done either of those things for a while.