I've always been pretty impressed with the Colt Defender. They are certainly not perfect out of the box, but as I've said many times, they sure are put together right, to the extent that sometimes I've wondered if they are made on a completely different line.
I have found them to be reliable in spite of a look that says "I'm too short! I can't possibly work right!" Now when I say reliable, I mean with a minimum of tweaking.
Accurate? Again, surprise, surprise. No, BIG surprise. Far as I know, nobody makes after market barrels for them.... and there is no need. Check it out:
Folks, that is six of six at 28 yards, from sandbags. Five of them are 230 Gold Dots, one is a Speer Lawman 230 FMJ. And this was not done using my usual accuracy protocol of firing the first hand cycled round off target, top off mag, fire one on target, top off mag, fire on target, etc. I just put six in the mag, racked one in, and started blasting.
It was not so perfectly sighted in when it came in, I had to take about .020 off the rear sight. That gave me the chance to optimize the sight a little. Taking .020 off the top got me into the white dots.... very unsightly. I recut the face of the sight to remove the dots, leaning the surface forward a bit more than stock, and re-serrated it. I chamfered and radiused the sight more than stock to try and make it a little more deep concealment friendly. Drilled for tritium, recessed, Parkerized/painted/baked, sent front and rear to Trijicon for inserts. The pics show some subtle difs between the Defender's modified rear and the same sight on a Colt CCO:
That CCO BTW should by every logic out shoot the Defender. It is in fact nowhere near as accurate. There is something very different about Defender barrels when every Defender I've worked with will out shoot most any other factory-barreled Colt.
As I say this was not what I would call a full custom..... budget figured into this a little, time constraints a little, but mostly, just the fact that this is to be a piece of equipment and not an object of adoration, meant that need/not need was really the determiner of what was done and what was not.
Among other things the little Defender got a slightly rounded butt-- I put some pics of this in the thread about round butts--
http://www.m-guns.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4812
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