Colt King Cobra Carry .357 Magnum 2 Inch DAO

Description

The King Cobra Carry is built around a straightforward mission: a full-power defensive revolver compact enough to ride on a belt or in a strong-side holster without demanding a larger gun’s bulk. It chambers .357 Magnum, which means it will also digest .38 Special for practice or lower-recoil carry—a flexibility that matters when you’re putting rounds through a short-barreled gun regularly.

The double-action-only trigger removes the external hammer entirely, eliminating the snag point that a spurred hammer creates on a draw from concealment or when firing from inside a pocket. Every trigger pull is the same deliberate stroke, which encourages consistent technique and prevents the temptation to pre-cock under stress. Gun Tests measured the pull on this model at around 8.5 pounds—heavy enough to prevent accidental discharge, light enough that trained hands won’t find it a liability.

Where most compact revolvers in this class hold five rounds, the King Cobra Carry fits six in its cylinder. That extra chamber comes at a cost in cylinder diameter and overall weight—this is a steel-framed gun, not an aluminum or scandium design, so it runs heavier than the lightest snubnoses on the market. That weight is not without benefit: it absorbs recoil from full-power Magnum loads in a way that lighter alloy frames cannot.

The brushed stainless finish throughout—barrel, cylinder, and frame—resists corrosion without requiring the same attention a blued carbon-steel gun demands, which suits a carry gun that will inevitably see sweat and humidity. The brass bead front sight gives a fast, high-contrast reference in the short sight radius that a 2-inch barrel allows. This is a working tool, made in the United States, designed for the shooter who wants a no-hammer six-shot Magnum-capable revolver and is willing to carry the weight that comes with it.