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 The venerable M1911 pistol series has also begun to be regarded as outdated by this time, so Colt decided to essentially "reboot" the basic M1911 design into a modern "combat handgun".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.
=Colt Double Eagle=
==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
Rumble in the Bronx	Marc Akerstream 	Tony 	Tokyo Marui Soft Air Gun	1995
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=
==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=
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
Moscow Heat 	Richard Tyson 	Nikolay Klimov 	 	2004
Moscow Heat 	Adrian Paul 	Andrew Chambers	 	2004
=See Also=
* Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt. 
Category:Gun
Category:Pistol