Colt Python prices

[Che762x39]

Actually, it is more like a Jag to a Toyota, because at some point the Jag is going to break on you, as the Python's action is not as robust as the Smith, something I learned in Armorers school. There is a lot of hand fitting required when repair is necessary as well. I love my Python, but it is a safe queen compared to the Smiths I own.

The other difference while both is 38 Special the barrel twists are different. The S&W shoots 158 grain LRN better and the Colts shoot the 158 grain LSWC better. Since the LSWC cuts nice holes in paper targets the public got an ideal of better accuracy with the Colt.

In gunsmith school they said everything will need your services eventually. Even the most robust firearm will be broken by a bubba from carelessness or bad reloaded ammunition.

[GM4spd]

Colt Pythons are not all they are hyped to be; I've owned and shot Pythons for more than 30 years; they can easily go out of time, they are fragile, and honestly somewhat flimsy. They are very finely made and the barrels were excellent, true; but they are neither "working guns" or something that can handle full loads regularly.

This part is VERY true,I have owned and shot them since early 70s,and
although I do not consider it a defect they do go out of time more frequently
then other revolvers I have owned and shot. I ,personally, still feel it is an
American icon and the LOOK is outstanding. I dont have one presently and
I have no urge to get one at over 2K,either. It is a Colt and they have produced some of the most recognizable firearms in the world and
the Python is part of that group. Pete

[cajay]

This pretty much sums up why the python is so great. Notice this review from 'guns.com' does in fact also mention the timing issue.

http://www.guns.com/review/2012/01/12/review-of-the-finest-revolver-ever-made-the-colt-python/

[santacruzpaul]

Python porn

Nice quiver of snakes,
I have had my blued 6" Python since the early 80's, (paid $400.00) And hands down it is the Ferrari of all the other Corvette wheel gun I have. I even shoot it with mostly 38 special every couple months or so, And carry it when hunting, It is still flawless. and a pleasure to shoot.

Pythons are like a beautiful woman! can never have too many of them to enjoy![ATTACH]284802[/ATTACH]

[Kilibreaux]

I waited my entire life to own a Colt Python. Then I owned one...a WONDERFUL example of the ingenuity of man! The lockwork is sheer, Rube Goldberg genius executed in steel! The shape..the proportions, the subtle contours of the Python cause erections to transition to priapism requiring medical intervention!
There has never been a more beautiful rendering of the revolver form...in fact, Colt has NEVER built an ugly revolver...everything from 1836 onward has been possessed of curves, swoops, angles, shapes, and even mechanical sounds as pleasing to the human eye and ear as humanly possible!
I LOVED my Colt Python...however, the DA trigger pull is long and potentiates the likelihood of a short-trigger stroke reset that could result in locking up the cylinder or cylinder cycling without hammer stroke.
Buy a Colt Python, take it to bed and stroke it next to your genitals in order to become aroused enough to do your spousal unit...but when you get up in the morning, let that most beautiful execution of human thought sleep comfortably under your pillow as you slip your Glock G19 into your waistband and approach the day.

[trigger945]

^^^LOL!!! What a post!

[bodger]

I paid less than $500 for my mint unfired Colt Python.








In 1981.

[03fatboy]

Colt Python prices

Not sure what my point here was, so deleting.

[colossians323]

I paid less than $500 for my mint unfired Colt Python.
In 1981.

duhhhhhhhhh

[Aircraftman]

Thank you; I am. R.L. Wilson would likely vouch for that.

You can post a "roll your eyes" smiley. You can cluck your tongue behind your keyboard in sheer disgust. You can doubt to the heights of Mt. Olympus, if it makes you feel better, or puts you in a serendipitous state of feeling more in the know. But that flagellation serves you and you only, and would do very little to change the truth.

Good luck to you.

You know RL Wilson!!!! OMG I retract my serendipitous smiley face!!!

You seem to be so angry with your post, I thought this was all about a fun hobby and sharing info amongst fellow travelers.

Who knows what the future holds with respect to pricing. That is half of what makes collecting interesting. I love my Colts, others love their Smiths while others love their Glocks. In the end we are all together against the real enemy - the left wing Pols in Sac!!!

Good Luck to you too my friend

[Renegade1]

Those of you who say a Python is no better than a other revolvers try this, Take a friend who knows nothing about guns shooting with you, let him/her try a Python and any other .357 revolver you may have and then ask which one he/she would like to shoot the rest of the day.

[bubbapug1]

I used to hate Mercedes drivers until I tried one. Same for the python. Sure it may go out if timing, but while it's working there is no other gun with as smooth a trigger pull as a colt.

And the styling of a python is akin to a piece if art. No one ever raved about the elegance of a ruger gp100.

Prices will rise on pythons until there is an alternate to the python, and that may be a long long time.

[Bullitt01]

I waited my entire life to own a Colt Python. Then I owned one...a WONDERFUL example of the ingenuity of man! The lockwork is sheer, Rube Goldberg genius executed in steel! The shape..the proportions, the subtle contours of the Python cause erections to transition to priapism requiring medical intervention!
There has never been a more beautiful rendering of the revolver form...in fact, Colt has NEVER built an ugly revolver...everything from 1836 onward has been possessed of curves, swoops, angles, shapes, and even mechanical sounds as pleasing to the human eye and ear as humanly possible!
I LOVED my Colt Python...however, the DA trigger pull is long and potentiates the likelihood of a short-trigger stroke reset that could result in locking up the cylinder or cylinder cycling without hammer stroke.
Buy a Colt Python, take it to bed and stroke it next to your genitals in order to become aroused enough to do your spousal unit...but when you get up in the morning, let that most beautiful execution of human thought sleep comfortably under your pillow as you slip your Glock G19 into your waistband and approach the day.

Well said...

[Uglyd]

Pythons are overrated and stupid. I will buy yours - pm me so you don't have to look at it any more.

[Germz]

I don't have a Python but have shot one before. Maybe I still don't understand why Pythons are valued the way they are.

dat cylinder lockup tho...theres a surprising amount of hand crafted labor that goes into a Python

They are out of production too.