Hello everyone!
My brother and I inherited a few guns from our uncle who passed a few years ago. Our family is very small, he was our last uncle, so these guns are very special to us.
One of them is a Colt Anaconda that appears to be in very good condition(like new). I'm sure he had shot it very little, but he had fired it. He had told my brother he had bought it new. We got it in the Colt factory case with the owners manual.
We shot it yesterday. It wasn't hitting to point of aim so we adjusted rear sight. We had to run the sight blade to the maximum adjustment to get it to hit to point of aim, but after a few more rounds, it was off again.
We got to looking close and where the ejector shroud touches the front of the frame, the shroud was not centered with the frame. My brother took ahold of the barrel, and turned it! Barrel can be turned back and forth by hand, fairly easily. Needless to say we didn't shoot it any more after seeing that.
I called Colt customer service and they told me year of manufacture(I asked, 1992),and said that the barrel needs re-indexed. Said we would need to send it to them, BUT, right now they aren't accepting any double actions for repair work due to backlog of work,(until June). Also, we would have to pay for repair as the gun was made before 96. He said a good, reputable gunsmith could do the job.
I am looking for suggestions and/or advice. Maybe some one can recommend a gunsmith for this job.
I don't want to hand this revolver over to just anybody, it means too much to us. There's only one REALLY good smith here, that I have any experience with, and he doesn't do stuff like this that I know of(Wayne Novak). There's a couple more, but I have no experience with them and prefer not to find out the hard way that they are not very good, especially with this gun!
Anybody have any advice or recommendations of who we could send this gun to for professional repair done right? I hate to even let it out of our hands, but, what else can we do? We are both shooters, and want to shoot it.