The 2021 Anaconda is a big, capable .44, and it deserves better than the rubber panels Colt put on it. These Colt Anaconda grips give the revolver the wood-and-metal finish it should have shipped with: warm rosewood, deep diamond checkering across the face, and a white-enamel Colt rampant horse medallion sitting flush at the top. The checkering is the part that actually changes how the gun shoots. A .44 Magnum pushes hard, and smooth panels let the revolver shift in the hand between rounds. The diamond points here grab the palm and the trigger finger, so the gun resets where you held it. Hunters running the Anaconda in the woods will notice it first. Range shooters will notice it on round 20. These also fit the 2020 Python, which uses the same grip frame as the new Anaconda. They do not fit the original Anaconda made before the 2021 reintroduction, the older Python (pre-2005), the King Cobra, or any other Colt double-action revolver with different frame geometry. Installation is one screw. Take out the factory side-plate screw, lift the rubber off, drop the rosewood on, run the screw back through. Three minutes. No fitting, no gunsmith, no surprises. Rosewood is the right wood for a working revolver because it stays put. The grain doesn’t lift when it gets damp, the wood doesn’t soften where your hand sits, and the checkering doesn’t round off in the first season of use. The white Colt medallion is inlaid into the wood, set below the surface, not pressed onto it — so it stays clean through cleaning solvents and oil patches. Shaped, checkered, and finished in North Carolina. 30-day return window if the panels don’t sit flush against your Anaconda or Python.
