OK, I'm impulsive. Just a little. But the tax return has this one covered. I hope this gun shoots as well as it feels, because it's pretty awesome.
All steel, parkerized, 6 shots, and weighs in loaded at 28 oz, exactly the same as my Glock 27 loaded 9+1. Nice smooth trigger, nice sight picture.
If things work out, this could definitely be a carry gun. Maybe with the hammer spur ground off. Hopefully do a range report for y'all next week.
Here's something about the gun I found on the web:
A Little History
The Commando Special was a limited time offering from Colt.
During the big Colt strike of the mid-1980's, Colt didn't have enough polishers still working to do the amount of work needed.
So, they introduced a series of Colt revolvers with unpolished black finishes, and had the available polishers concentrate on the premium guns like the Python, and the easier to polish 1911 autos.
These were nothing more than standard guns, only unpolished and with flat black parkerized finishes.
There was a "Peacekeeper" which was an unpolished Trooper Mark V, an unpolished Detective Special known as the "Commando Special" and an unpolished Cobra and Agent.
For unknown reasons, Colt didn't assign special names to the unpolished Agent and Cobra versions.
The Commando Special was only made from 1984 to 1986.