Colt Double Eagle

The Colt Double Eagle is an American semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured by Colt, manufactured from 1990 to 1997. The pistol was designed in the late 1980s, in response to the rise of "wonder nines" such as the Glock 17 that supplanted revolvers as the preferred sidearms of law enforcement and military forces. The venerable M1911 pistol series has also begun to be regarded as outdated by this time, so Colt decided to essentially "reboot" the basic M1911 design into a modern "combat handgun". As such, the Double Eagle shares many of the same parts and controls from an M1911 and uses the same magazines, but was updated with a double-action trigger. However, Colt chose to continue using single-stack magazines, despite the fact many of the handguns the Double Eagle was meant to compete against use double-stack magazines that offer around twice the capacity of the eight-round Double Eagle. The Double Eagle was primarily offered in .45 ACP or 10mm Auto, with a somewhat uncommon 9x19mm version later produced, along with considerably rarer .40 S&W and .38 Super versions.

The Double Eagle was an ultimately unsuccessful venture, as converting the single-action M1911 design to double-action required the addition of many small, complex parts that made maintenance difficult. It was also more expensive than most of its competition, almost all of which offered higher magazine capacities as mentioned earlier.

The standard version of the Colt Double Eagle has a 5" barrel with 8 round capacity. The Colt Double Eagle Commander has a 4.5" barrel, and the smallest version, the Colt Double Eagle Officer, has a 3.5" barrel.

The Colt Double Eagle and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Colt Double Eagle

Colt Double Eagle - .45 ACP

Specifications

(1989–1997)

• Type: Pistol

• Caliber(s): .45 ACP, 10mm Auto, .40 S&W, 9x19mm, .38 Super

• Weight: 2.66 lbs (1.21 kg)

• Length: 8.5 in (21.6 cm)

• Barrel length: 5 in (12.7 cm)

• Capacity: 8-round magazine

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto (DA/SA)

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Boyz N The Hood	Ice Cube	Doughboy		1991
Ricochet		gangster		1991
Rumble in the Bronx		White Tiger's gang members	Tokyo Marui Soft Air Gun	1995
	Marc Akerstream	Tony
Erkan & Stefan	Jeffrey Mittleman	Agent Ryan		2000
Boys Don't Cry	Maciej Stuhr	Kuba Brenner		2000
Blade II	Tony Curran	Priest		2002
Shoot 'Em Up				2007
Vengeance	Simon Yam	George Fung		2009

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Julie Lescaut	Jean-Claude Jay	Müller	"Week-end" (S04E02)	1995
Monk	Various	Various		2002-2009
The Pretenders (Los Simuladores)		Laguzzi's debt collector	Blued finish; "Diagnóstico Rectoscópico" (S1E02)	2002-2004
Supernatural - Season 4			"Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" (S04E02)	2008

Video Game

Game Title	Appears as	Note	Release Date
Perfect Dark	Falcon 2		2000

Colt Double Eagle Officer

Colt Double Eagle Officer's Model - .45 ACP

Specifications

(1991–1992)

• Type: Pistol

• Caliber(s): .45 ACP

• Weight: 2.18 lbs (0.99 kg)

• Barrel length: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)

• Capacity: 8-round magazine

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto (DA/SA)

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Quantum of Solace		Opera Performers		2008
Driven to Kill	Steven Seagal	Ruslan Drachev		2009

Umarex Colt Double Eagle

Umarex Colt Double Eagle Combat Commander - 9mm P.A.K. blanks

A blank-firing replica of the Colt Double Eagle Combat Commander manufactured by the German company Umarex.

Film

Title	Character	Actor	Note	Date
Sara	Dariusz Gnatowski	A bodyguard		1997
Children and Fish (Dzieci i ryby)	Joanna Brodzik	The Model		1997
Hot Saturday (Raskalyonnaya subbota)	Vladimir Simonov	Dmitry Zemtsov		2002
Moscow Heat	Robert Madrid	Rudy Sousa		2004
	Richard Tyson	Nikolay Klimov
	Adrian Paul	Andrew Chambers

See Also

• Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.