[Jeff Higgins]

Things work a little different with Colt...

Go to the Colt website and use their "dealer locator" and find an "authorized dealer" near you. Place your order through them. My local "authorized dealers" will all accept an order, typically with a down payment of some kind, to hold your place in line. These authorized dealers do, in fact, have standing orders with Colt. You are, with your order and down payment, putting your name on one of those. If what you want is not a part of their standing order, they will place a special order for you.

I have personally done this many, many times over the years when ordering an "out of stock", hard to get Colt. Like I mentioned above, however, delivery times are unpredictable. Your dealer will have no idea when the gun will arrive. Could be as little as a few months, it could be more than a year. It can get frustrating.

Hopefully this newest iteration of "Colt" will be able to increase production so as to eventually eliminate, or at least mitigate, this problem. I wouldn't hold my breathe, but one can hope. They will never crank out guns at the volumes of Ruger, Glock, Kimber, et. al., but maybe they will at least pick it up to the point where they can give us realistic time frames for delivery. That would be a start. I haven't seen it in over 35 years of dealing with them but, hey, you never know...