Snub Nosed .38 Special Colt Commando, WWII Revolver

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  • Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025

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  • @scooterbob4432
    @scooterbob4432 3 года назад +6

    My Dad had the rare 2" barrel Colt Commando. He was a US Army captain fighting the Japanese in the Philippines during WW2. After the war, I think he gave the Colt to his older brother who was then a captain also in the Philippine Constabulary, The Philippine Constabulary or national police was established when the country was still a US Commonwealth.

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  3 года назад +4

      Very interesting. Thanks for posting that.

    • @robertonavarro7713
      @robertonavarro7713 Год назад

      @@ObjectHistory You're welcome, sir. I bought a vintage Colt Agent 38 Special revolver a few months ago. It has a shorter grip frame than the Detective Special and Cobra.
      In very good condition, it's quite accurate and highly reliable with a very smooth double action trigger pull.

  • @davek5027
    @davek5027 3 года назад +5

    Awesome video! I own several older Colt .38s, and they are extremely well-made pistols. Have a 1966 and a 1968 vintage Cobra lightweight, a 1957 vintage Colt Agent, and a 1942 vintage Officers Model Match .38.

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  3 года назад +2

      I have two 1963 Colt Cobra’s and yeah, built like tanks. Nice collection you’ve got there!

  • @larrypesek8818
    @larrypesek8818 3 года назад +2

    Old drafting tables, T-square, Triangles, French curves and sanding blocks for the many varies of leads... Thanks for reactivating some memories...

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  3 года назад

      My pleasure! I’ve always loved anything that calls back to a bygone day, even when I was a kid.

  • @Howler
    @Howler Год назад +2

    The Commando feels "more muscular" than the Detective Special because it is. The Detective Special is the small, or "D" framed Police Positive special revolver with a 2 inch barrel which Colt eventually decided to give its own name. The Commando was the medium or "E" framed "Official Police" revolver with a matte finish, no checkering on the trigger or cylinder release button and plastic grips. It was mostly made with the 4 inch barrel with a significantly lesser amount made with the 2 inch barrel.

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  Год назад

      Thanks for the info. Guess I held a rarer Commando then.

  • @robertscherer6343
    @robertscherer6343 2 года назад +2

    great video. I own a colt cobra 2" chrome plated revolver that was my grandfathers and I have my father service revolver from the Philadelphia police dept. It's a Colt official police in 38 special 4" barrel

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  2 года назад

      Awesome on both. Great family heirlooms.

  • @Covert_Arrangements
    @Covert_Arrangements 3 года назад +1

    As a vintage firearm collector, your channel has become one of my favorites. 🤠

  • @polskatoja
    @polskatoja 2 года назад +2

    About 3,450, of the roughly 49,000 Commandos produced were in two-inch “snub” variants that were commonly termed Junior Commandos.

  • @duncanbrave3465
    @duncanbrave3465 Год назад +2

    My grandfather and my father carried Colt firearms in their wars

  • @jonwhitley2083
    @jonwhitley2083 6 месяцев назад

    I have a 2” Commando in the original box that was carried by a intelligence officer in WWII. I also have his Union switch & signal 1911 and standard mfg M-1 carbine

  • @pattreadwell6149
    @pattreadwell6149 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for your research

  • @Treblaine
    @Treblaine Год назад +1

    I think one reason revolvers stuck around so long after the semi-auto is the lack of ammunition that will both reliably expand AND reliably feed through a semi-auto. You generally need a very wide meplat back then for reliable expansion (without advanced features like segmented jackets) at pistol velocity and that's easier to do with a revolver as the rounds don't need to feed from a magazine. Even when 9x19mm ammunition was on the market that did reliably feed and expand the reputation stuck around, most police departments had some experience where someone shot an entire magazine into a suspect who kept fighting, the NYPD wasn't convinced that 9x19mm pistols were good enough for issue to patrol officers until 1994.
    Ironically they didn't start carrying "high capacity" pistols until the same year that the general public were restricted from purchasing newly made high capacity firearms.

  • @michaelmetler6315
    @michaelmetler6315 3 месяца назад +1

    You got that backwards. Ford is the Colt of it's day

  • @chrispena4582
    @chrispena4582 Год назад +1

    I love this video. Very informative

  • @Brace67
    @Brace67 3 месяца назад

    The WW2 era Colt Commando was actually a Colt Official Police revolver that underwent changes to make it less costly per unit for the government to purchase. These changes included Parkerizing the finish instead of bluing it, changing the checkered wood grips to plastic, removing the checkering on the cylinder release, and removing the checkering on the trigger. The revolver is most commonly found in a four-inch barrel configuration, but two-inch versions were also produced to a lesser degree. Similar changes (but not identical) were also initiated on the Smith & Wesson M&P revolvers which became the "Victory" and were used extensively in WW2 by our naval pilots. Original two-inch versions of the "Victory" are practically impossible to find. It took me many, many years of searching before I finally found one and obtained a letter of authentication from S&W historian Roy Jinks. I also own a two-inch Commando, mint in its original factory box with its purchase history written on the box's top by the original buyer, a Marine captain in the Philippines in late 1945.

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  3 месяца назад

      Great info, thanks. I know the Parkerizing was a cost reduction thing but man, I thought it looked and felt pretty cool in person.

  • @noahbianchi1920
    @noahbianchi1920 Год назад +2

    I think of Colt having a military presence. The 1873, 1911, M-16, and I think a couple double action revolvers between the 1873 and 1911.

  • @stanleygurski7733
    @stanleygurski7733 Год назад

    The only 6 inch Colt Commando is the drawing on the pamphlet that came with the gun.

  • @larry1824
    @larry1824 2 года назад

    Love these more than ones with shroud. These guns told you meant serious business.. Churchill carried one rather than a Webley I'm told.

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  2 года назад

      That’s an interesting historical note. Will have to look into that. I agree they look better this way (non-shrouded) but I can definitely see the functional point of the shroud if you’re keeping it in a pocket.

    • @larry1824
      @larry1824 2 года назад +1

      @@ObjectHistory or a vest.

  • @richardkluesek4301
    @richardkluesek4301 3 года назад +3

    Should you have on hand in 2" barrel specimens the Commando, Detective Special, and S&W Victory, there would be distinct differences in mass and size And adding to the trio a 1950s S&W Chief Special, the comparison would be even more dramatic. As well, contrasting production numbers, as you point out there were about 50,000 Commandos, while the Victory counterpart output for the British and US contracts was close to a million units.

  • @Miguel-Olivier
    @Miguel-Olivier 5 месяцев назад

    Hi thanks for your video. Where could i find the parts list and illustration of it ? Regards.

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  5 месяцев назад

      Honestly I don't have that anymore, I ditch most of what I dig up for these videos bc otherwise I'd just end up with gobs and gobs of data. If it's something I think I'll need again or use in a book I hold on to it but didn't with the parts list/pic. If you screenshot it and do a Google image search I bet it would come up very quickly.

  • @polskatoja
    @polskatoja 2 года назад +2

    In comparison to Detective special, Comando is a much beefier revolver. The barrel on a snub version is almost double the thickness of the snub Detective…It’s basically a Detective Special on steroids !!!

    • @ObjectHistory
      @ObjectHistory  2 года назад

      Yeah, it felt beastly in hand. That really surprised me.

    • @junichiroyamashita
      @junichiroyamashita 2 года назад

      I wonder,does it takes plus P ammo?

    • @philippicphilodox888
      @philippicphilodox888 Год назад

      Colt revived the Commando name for revolvers during the strike era (1986-1990). However, it was mainly just a parkerized Detective Special. During the strike, Colt did not have enough skilled craftsmen to do the detailed polishing necessary to get the deep blue finish their guns were known for (the even deeper "Royal Blue" finish was reserved for Pythons). These strike-era Commando revolvers were inferior to the Detective Special in fit, finish, and probably function as well. However, because of their relative rarity, they usually "command" higher prices. Also, these guns had synthetic grips that were unique to this model, and the grips alone can fetch eyebrow-raising prices.

  • @pattreadwell6149
    @pattreadwell6149 2 года назад +1

    Thanks again for your research