2024 Colt Python blued carbon steel

[Tim padilla]

Yeah I?m a metal fabricator and do a decent amount of polish work on 316L stainless products I make for boats like railings, davits, rod holder racks , polished kelp knives for lower Outboard units and such . My polish work is good with my modern gear like a Burr King belt grinder w/VRD running 2x72 belts and a double wheel Baldor 1.5 HP with a rope sisal and cotton buff . These guys need some practice especially with the gear they probably have compared to my Independent shop . I can get a polish as good or better than them with 5 steps from a raw orange peel steel finish. 120-220-400-A16 3M Trizac belt to rope sisal with green or black rouge to a cotton buff with white rouge. That?s going fast, if you want a jewelry finish like the original pythons we?re done before the blue in a nickel there?s several more steps in between.
I never heard about animal skins for the Colt buffing machines but I did hear that only the top finishers in the shop with the most experience were allowed to work on the Pythons. You had to start at the bottom in guns like Detective Specials and Police Positives . So I was told .
If they want to produce a quality blue job in today?s times and make customers happy I think they should up charge them and out source the work to someone such as Doug Turnbull . He did well on some projects for Smith and Wesson like the Performance Center 2000 Schofield revolvers. .

[Zenderfall]

Sending this to PETA....



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Why?

Those walruses may very well be alive during the process, and possibly enjoying it!

[denpython]

Sportsman's Warehouse and Brownells are now sold out of 4 & 6 inchers.
Can't get them in kommiefornica anyway..

[Mute]

I hope the samples at SHOT aren't representative of what will be delivered in production. Finiish was good but not great. Trigger is no where near as good as Pythons of the past. They need to do way better on the trigger.

[Horsewright]

Walrus hide!?! Geez what a crock.
Everyone knows on the early colts they only used the best methods and where forged between the thighs of tall blond virgins and then polished to a high shine with baby seal fur.
Get it together man and stop spreading the fud

You forgot the quenching after heat treat in Unicorn piss.

[Pantera Mike]

I?ve sent an email to Colt customer service asking for the timeline for CA compliant models. I will let you know what they say.

This is what they said about CA availability:

We submit all of our firearms for approval with the state of CA. It is up to them when they will be approved. I would check the state approved list often.

[splithoof]

I have not yet seen one to handle, so I have no say. I am skeptical of YouTube videos and trade shows, so there is that. Until I actually hold or shoot one I will wait to comment on the finish.
I can say however that the 2020 versions IMO need a few improvements that could be easily done at the factory, such as Wilson sights, smooth trigger face, and better sear engagement for the single-action release. My issue with the stock rear sights is that over time they drift. The Wilson unit stays put and is much easier to see. Colt should buy them from Wilson, and save owners the trouble.
The finish on my stainless 2020 examples is adequate as is. Accuracy is stellar.

[Usmc0844spare]

The surface prep on that thing looks terrible. Bumpy, uneven and awful. Absolutely awful.

Pass, and curse while passing.

I watched the vids and thought I saw some "bad stuff" but then I wondered if that wasn't just some shmootz from having fired the gun recently? All the "bad stuff" seemed to be in the likely places you'd get carbon fouling after a range trip.

I am certainly no expert however.

[Steponmytoes]

The guns on video look like black lacquer paint rather than a polished blue?

[Zenderfall]

The guns on video look like black lacquer paint rather than a polished blue?

Black lacquer paint on a Python? Heaven's no, that's 20th century!

It's CERAKOTE!

[jayhuh]

Apologies to Steponmytoes. I was wrong about the walrus hide.

[Elgatodeacero]

Nice comparison between old and new.

I want a new 6 inch barrel blued Python.

https://www.coltforum.com/threads/2024-polished-blue-python-side-by-side-with-1984-royal-blue-python-both-are-6-inch-models.408174/

[1911R SSS]

The finish looks like that Durablue aerosol

[nickel plate]

Maybe it's my eyesight but it looks to me that the wood grip checkering on this recreated Python is flush with the smooth part of the grip-as in Smith and Wesson checkering.
If so, gone is the longer and more precise process of tooling the checkering which stood out and above the smooth part of the grip on the original Pythons.

[Bullwinkle]

Also noticed that they added an additional vent on the barrel. Looks goofy

Huh. You're right... on both counts. On the stainless version it looks like a vent rib should look. On the blued version it looks like an upside-down railroad track, or a bridge across a gully, or like there should be a Picatinny rail on top, or something "not right". The pillars (for lack of a better term) are too narrow.

Guess I owe you a bit of a "thank you", then. I have absolutely no desire to buy one now, even though I've been hoping Colt would come out with the blued model ever since learning they reintroduced the Python. I mean, come on... we all knew the finish on the new guns wouldn't match the Royal Blue of the past, but why the heck did they have to go and screw up the vent rib... the signature feature that makes a Python a Python?!?