Colt Python NIB - Clean or No?

[kengotit]

show off..

but i like it

[Erion929]

So for those that are in the camp of "shoot it", I am betting you don't spend your silver dollars...because they are just a coin, and should be used? Or pop a mint proof set out to play quarters? Yeah, thought not. Some guns are just too collectible or are so beautiful, that they are happy being fondled but never shot.

+1.....unfortunate, but I'd have to keep that mint, too. You don't want to shoot that one. Why did he buy it then? Maybe he got a smoking deal on a highly collectible gun that has shown an increased investment curve.

A blued gun can also be severely screwed up if cleaned and maintained incorrectly. Buy another shooter grade if you gotta send some downrange.....

[Daddo]

I have a bunch of Pythons and I shoot 'em all. Ya only live once! They will always have great value, doesn't matter how many slugs went down the pipe. I make it a point to buy polished stainless guns, that way, if I get a little flaw, I can polish it out and it looks like new again. Can't do that with blued guns.

I say...choot 'em!

[sigstroker]

I bought a Python that was about 99% for $1200 in 2008. No box and had a small scratch on the butt of the stock.
Sold it last December before moving to Idaho for $2400.

If it's NIB, it doesn't add anything to have the original lube.

Clean and oil it. You are lucky that it hasn't already started to tarnish in places such as the hammer.
If you are going to admire it often,
place it back in the bag and in the safe. Try not keep opening and closing the box, as the flaps will eventually tear off.

It doubled in 7 years. That's 10% a year. You're much better off in the stock market as an investment.

A rare gun might be an investment. Pythons are not rare. Shoot it, and likely as not, in 10 years you're used Python will be worth more than you paid for it by a good bit. AND you got to enjoy shooting it in the meantime.

[OUTLAWZ]

I don't shoot this one either, so sue me.

Now your just showing off..

[vliberatore]

It doubled in 7 years. That's 10% a year. You're much better off in the stock market as an investment.

If you go off of the indexes, the Python was better than the DJI, worse than the NASDAQ over the same time period.

[SonofWWIIDI]

That's a real beauty ya got there!

Congrats.

Shoot it, don't shoot it...meh, it's your gun, do what you want with it.

[Mayor McRifle]

Show off.

Yep. He's probably posting the same "important question" about packing grease removal (with pictures, of course) on gun forums all over the country.

[highpower]

Random Thought--->

If you do not plan on pounding nails, why buy a hammer?

I could go on and on with the analogies. It never ceases to amaze me why a person would buy a gun and then not shoot it! It' a TOOL!!!!!! USE IT!!! ENJOY IT!!!

To fondle it, wipe it, gawk at it, show it off that you wont shoot it -- etc. is "weird" (IMHO!)

I have a few guns that I don't shoot. Some are old and were unfired when I got them, others, like my Python have become worth so much that I just don't want to take a chance with dinging then up.

Just because you wouldn't hesitate to shoot a NIB Python, doesn't mean that it is a good idea.

[doc540]

Thanks for the info.

I was surprised by some of the answers I got on the Colt Forum.

Some said never shipped in a bag.

Some said shipped in a bag but never with any kind of "goop".

I asked on one other forum and got mixed replies.

Figured there were a few genuine collectors here that might know if the resale of mine might be enhanced if I kept it "as is".

After all, that was the question.

[highpower]

I don't know about Pythons, but my Colt single action, made in 1984, shipped in a bag just like yours. I have shot it some, but I keep it in the bag in the original box. Every time I take it out to shoot I have to clean the oil off of it.

[doc540]

I don't know about Pythons, but my Colt single action, made in 1984, shipped in a bag just like yours. I have shot it some, but I keep it in the bag in the original box. Every time I take it out to shoot I have to clean the oil off of it.

Thanks

Before I asked the experts, I did a quick Google search of NIB Pythons, and several of them confirmed what you just wrote.

[DysfunctionalVet]

Like another poster stated I too see a slight turn ring on the cylinder.

[doc540]

Like another poster stated I too see a slight turn ring on the cylinder.

No turn ring, it's the lighting.

Apart from the factory test, it's never been fired either.

[Mirac]

No turn ring, it's the lighting.

Apart from the factory test, it's never been fired either.

I'd need a closer inspection, It's lined up exactly where a turn ring would be.