Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless 22 LR 4.25 in. – Proven 10 Shot

Description

A double action revolver teaches trigger control better than anything else you can buy, and a .22 does it without costing anything to practice with. The Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless is the version of that idea built without compromises: forged stainless throughout, thirty four ounces of it, a ten shot cylinder, and a trigger that came out of the same shop as Colt’s centerfire snake guns.

What separates this one from the rest of the King Cobra Target line is the finish. Colt part number KCOBRA22-SP4RFO wears a bright polished stainless frame and cylinder rather than the matte finish on the other 4.25 inch guns, and on a revolver with this much flat surface the difference is not subtle.

Ten rounds of .22 Long Rifle, a 4.25 inch vent rib barrel with a full underlug, a fiber optic front sight and an adjustable target rear. MSRP $1,119, and we are holding 194.

Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless at a glance

• Ten shot double action / single action revolver in .22 Long Rifle with an exposed spurred hammer and a transfer bar mechanism.
• 4.25 inch one piece stainless barrel with a ventilated rib and a full length underlug.
• Forged stainless steel frame and cylinder in a bright polished finish.
• Fiber optic front sight and a fully adjustable target rear sight.
• Oversized black Hogue overmolded rubber grips.
• 9.25 inches overall, 5.8 inches tall, 34 ounces. MSRP $1,119.

Why a heavy 22 revolver is the best trigger trainer there is

• Thirty four ounces under a .22 Long Rifle cartridge means recoil is effectively absent. Nothing masks a bad trigger pull, so every flinch and every push shows up on the target where it can be worked on.
• A double action pull is long and deliberate, which exposes exactly where in the stroke a shooter is disturbing the sights. A short striker pull hides that.
• The Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless has the same lockwork lineage as Colt’s centerfire revolvers, so what you learn on it transfers directly to a .357 rather than to nothing.
• Rimfire costs a fraction of centerfire per round, which is the difference between practicing once a month and practicing weekly.
• The adjustable rear sight means the gun can be zeroed to whatever load you settle on, and the fiber optic front is fast enough to be useful on steel as well as paper.

Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless specifications

• Colt part number: KCOBRA22-SP4RFO
• Caliber: .22 Long Rifle
• Capacity: 10
• Action: double action / single action, exposed hammer, transfer bar
• Barrel: 4.25 inches, one piece stainless, vent rib, full underlug
• Frame and cylinder: forged stainless steel, polished finish
• Sights: fiber optic front, fully adjustable target rear
• Grips: oversized black Hogue overmolded rubber
• Overall length: 9.25 inches
• Height: 5.8 inches
• Weight: 34 ounces
• MSRP: $1,119

Ammunition for the Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless

A revolver does not care whether a cartridge generates enough pressure to work an action, which is the quiet advantage rimfire revolvers hold over rimfire semi-autos. Subsonic, standard velocity, high velocity and match ammunition all work in a Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless, and you can pick the load on accuracy alone rather than on whether it will cycle.

For volume, our Federal AutoMatch 40 grain is the cheapest sensible bulk option and one of the deepest stocked items we carry. For small game or anything where expansion matters, Remington Golden Bullet 36 grain plated hollow point is the straightforward choice.

Rimfire is dirty, and the ten chambers on a Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless collect fouling faster than six do. A chamber brush and a habit of cleaning the cylinder face rather than just the bore will keep extraction easy. That is the only real maintenance demand this revolver makes.

The Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless trigger: double action and single action

The Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless trigger works two ways and both are worth learning. Pressed from the front, the trigger cocks and releases the hammer in one long stroke: that is double action, and it is the mode that builds trigger control because there is nowhere to hide. Thumbing the hammer back first gives a short, light single action pull, which is the mode for shooting groups and for checking whether a flier was you or the ammunition.

A useful drill on the Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless is to shoot the same ten rounds both ways and compare the groups. The gap between them is your double action technique, measured rather than guessed, and it closes with practice in a way that very little else in shooting does.

The Hogue overmolded grips deserve a mention here too. They are rubber rather than wood, which is the unglamorous choice and the right one on a trainer: they fill the hand, they do not slip when hands are cold, and they let the shooter concentrate on the trigger rather than on holding onto the gun.

Who the Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless suits

• Anyone learning to shoot a double action revolver properly, which is a skill that transfers upward to every centerfire wheelgun.
• Shooters who already own a .357 King Cobra or a Python and want a rimfire understudy with the same manual of arms.
• Small game and pest control at close range, where ten rounds and an adjustable sight are more useful than magnum power.
• Collectors, because a polished stainless Colt double action is a handsome thing and this one is still a current production gun rather than a hunt.

How the Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless compares with the rest of the line

• The matte stainless 4.25 inch King Cobra Target is mechanically the same revolver with a matte finish, for anyone who would rather not polish fingerprints off a gun.
• The six inch King Cobra Target trades some handiness for a longer sight radius, which is the better choice if the gun is going to live on a bench.
• Against the .357 King Cobra, this is the same platform without the running cost, and the sensible way to learn the trigger before moving up.
• Against a cheaper .22 revolver, the difference is the forged frame, the adjustable sights and the trigger. Those are the three things that matter on a trainer and the three things budget guns cut.

The Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless is expensive for a .22 and worth it for the specific job of learning to shoot a double action revolver properly. It is also, frankly, a handsome object, and there is nothing wrong with owning one for that reason. Specifications here come from the distributor record and from Colt’s own King Cobra Target page.

This is a serialized firearm and ships to a licensed dealer for transfer. Stock on the Colt King Cobra Target Polished Stainless is 194 units, which is far deeper than this model usually sits anywhere, so there is no wait.