Colt Python Shooter or Safe Queen?

[JackRydden224]

Buy a ruger or s&w and $2000 of some stock index fund then go and shoot.

What's the point of a no shooter, might as well get something else as art.

Do you buy an expensive bottle of scotch to look at and then drink Johnny walker black?

If I do get a python I intend to shoot it like all other handguns I have. I don't think I can spend $2000 on something and not make good use of it. It just seems silly to me. Now I need to find one I like for the price I like.

[SloChicken]

Buy a ruger or s&w and $2000 of some stock index fund then go and shoot.

What's the point of a no shooter, might as well get something else as art.

Do you buy an expensive bottle of scotch to look at and then drink Johnny walker black?

Heyyy, Black isn't so bad.

It isn't any ol blu or green, but then again it isn't red either.


As far as Colt's go. Shoot it. They still look every bit as nice AND you get to actually shoot it.


Or to make it perfectly clear,
No matter how pretty the girl, you will never know how sweet she is until you get around the block a few times.

I have a les paul that some say is worth 5k plus,
I play it all the time, belt buckle scratches, dings, whatever. I am not rich enough to just let it sit.
Same as my Vette, and ALL my guns.
I work in emergency medicine and after seeing what I have seen over the years, I use a saying quite often.
"better to wear out, than rust out".
It pertains more to people that do risky stuff and sometimes get hurt vs being overly cautious and just dying without ever really living.

I will say this, I have a couple of times put foul weather synthetic stocks on a couple of my hunting rifles so the fancy schmancy stocks they came with didn't get dinged or warped from foul weather.
What can I say, I'm a freakin' enigma ...

BTW, I just got a pretty collectible 1911 (1960s Clark Custom Heavy Longslide on a Colt Frame), built by Jim Sr himself.

First order of business,
Shoot it.

[Alexander831]

Funny how more than half of u that are answering are senior members. Lol... Just saying...

[SloChicken]

Funny how more than half of u that are answering are senior members. Lol... Just saying...

yeah?

Whatever, welcome to the neighborhood.

Now scram ...

Just kidding.

No, really,

Get out of here.

LOL

Just messin' wid'ja.


But seriously,
what is your point about senior members are posting ??? Failing to see any relevance here ...

[sirgiles]

Funny how more than half of u that are answering are senior members. Lol... Just saying...

Probably means you need to listen and learn little padawan.

[ke6guj]

When someone's collection reaches dozens of rifles and pistols there comes a time that just about everything becomes a safe queen at some point.

I'm looking for a Python and it will not be shot all the time because most of the time I practice with the pistol I compete with.

exactly. My Python is effectively a safe queen, not because I am afraid to shoot it and risk "diminishing" its value, but with so many other choices, it just doesn't make it to the gun case for the ride to the range very often.

[Aircraftman]

Hey its your gun, so you can do what you want with it!!

But I don't get the "Shoot it no matter what" mentality. Would you really take a NIB 1955 Python valued at $15K+++ and shoot it just so you can say "Its a gun its meant to be shot"?

Then after your little range time your gun would have lost half it value!!!!

Or better yet would you let your wife take your 1968 Big Block Corvette to Target to pick up some toilet paper??

Shooter Colts and all other uncollectable guns - shoot them every day (if you can afford the ammo) but some guns truly belong in the safe as works of art, not tools.

JMHO (and let the flaming begin!!! Hahaha)

[MoltoMario]

Ive only taken my 85 4" Blue Python out once. She's a pretty clean example. Just a turn line on the cylinder and one tiny mark on the bluing. Probably a 85-90%er. I bought it as a little investment piece, but I planned on shooting it every now and then. I have several Smith's and a Ruger I can shoot to hold me over on my wheelguns . Matter of fact I only own one bottom feeder :P haha

[Fishslayer]

But I don't get the "Shoot it no matter what" mentality. Would you really take a NIB 1955 Python valued at $15K+++ and shoot it just so you can say "Its a gun its meant to be shot"?

Some of the people here would have you drag your new Les Baer to the range behind your truck so it'll have "character."

[HPGunner]

I shoot my Python maybe once a year or less depending if I get around to it. But it's mainly a collector piece.

[BigPimping]

Python owners, how often do you shoot your Python? Most of the Pythons I see in the market place are in excellent condition with with low round counts. A couple of Python owners I spoke to say I only shoot it once or twice a year. So how often do you shoot your Python? Is the gun a shooter or more of a collector's piece?

I have none so I must envy yours.

[nickel plate]

I shoot mine, Who knows of they will keep going up but if Colt does a new release those prices will fall.

I totally disagree-if Colt ever does a new release, the original Pythons will continue to rise in price because they were hand fitted to exacting tolerances and royal blued (research that process) or BSTS to perfection-to do that in today's marketplace would price a Python "II" way over the budget of most revolver buyers. The skilled craftsmen are gone-the CNC and laser machines are here. Example for one: The Ford Thunderbird.

[redcliff]

I'm fortunate to have several so I have one 4" that I've modified and shoot whenever I like, one like new 6" and a l.n.i.b. 4".

One thing to remember though is that some parts for Pythons are very difficult to find and no longer produced by Colt or anyone else.

[CenterX]

Mine is well experienced just like me - once pretty and now rugged, yet true to the task, and smoke 'n hot!

Shoot'm if you got'm. Oh ya it's, smoke'm if ya got'm...

[smak28]

Funny how more than half of u that are answering are senior members. Lol... Just saying...

Lol. Good point.

Just as others have said, I've accumulated enough guns that are shooters where i want to maintain the value of my Colts especially that they are still in like new in original box. If they were beaten, then I'd shoot them frequently.