Bob Chow Colt Python

[beetle]

Can you post pictures? Please? (I'm a secret admirer of your posts, btw )

Thank you -- half the fun of being a collector is being able to share (stories, history, etc).

I don't have a pic of the officer's model revolver handy, but here is my chow 1911:





The guy I bought it from still had the original receipt when he commissioned Bob to work on his gun. The medal is one of many trinkets that Bob won over his lifetime. They now give them away as prizes for his memorial shoots. There is also an original Bob Chow marked barrel bushing tool.

As you can see in the third picture, Bob's trademark was to stamp codes into the slide of the work performed.

B = Barrel Fitting
S = Stippling
BS = Bomar Sites
FA = Fully Accurized

Is it wrong to say I lust after your Python? ha ha ha!

[javaduke]

Here's my Bob Chow 1911:


Both front strap and MSH are stippled (not checkered!). Bo-Mar rear sight, tall front sight, NM bushing, and very precise barrel fit. And, of course, the trigger is amazing

[deephouse]

more pics please!! that angle is such a teaser..

[Kingair001]

Stunning !

[RudyN]

I was lucky to meet Bob Chow back in the 70s when I went to his shop in San Francisco to pick up a muzzle loader kit. He showed me some of the guns he had put away for his retirement-WOW!

[javaduke]

awesome!!! I have a Bob Chow 1911 and a Bob Chow Officer's Model, but a Bob Chow Python is the ultimate!!!

Can you post pictures? Please? (I'm a secret admirer of your posts, btw )

[beetle]

awesome!!! I have a Bob Chow 1911 and a Bob Chow Officer's Model, but a Bob Chow Python is the ultimate!!!

[BigPimping]

Insane Playa......worth the heavy bank no doubt.

[den888]

Very nice!

[GM4spd]

I lived in Winterport,which was 12 miles from Bangor. I was 10 in 1960
when that Python went to Dakins Sporting Goods. I bet the guy that bought
it didn't have a ten day wait!

[dfletcher]

Made in 1960, accurized and converted to SAO by F. Bob Chow in June 1961. Stamped "Chow" on the hammer and on the left side of the frame, under the grips.

Don't ask me how much I paid for it...

You may find this interesting:

http://bangorinfo.com/Focus/focus_brady_gang.html

I'm from NH & MA, visited their store as a kid. Like many "sporting goods" stores they unfortunately moved away from guns and are out of business.

[Mr. Beretta]

How much did ya pay for it?

[johnnyh75]

Very nice

[Socalmp5]

How much?

[stevemac]

Unreal. From the pic it looks super clean.