New Python questions

[Gavelek]

[sfe187]

Not gonna pay MSRP (or above) for current production. But then again I have older Pythons so I can wait. Early kinks have been sorted out but inspect your "new" one well before accepting/dros.

[n8vrmind]

Read about problem with the "hand" on new production python. Colt gave a bit of 1/2 response to the criticism. Not sure if it was completely fixed

[drdanno84]

Pythons

Get on the mailing list at Sportsman Warehouse (corona ) and Riflegear,
I bought a 4" at Riflegear and 6" at Sportsman for $1499.00 each plus tax and dros. I own several blued ones and I can attest to the quality of the new ones.
The action is super smooth, the finish is impeccable. Colt uses a better stainless alloy and CNC machining which makes for a superb firearm. Back in the day prior to CNC, the pythons were "hand fitted" to make a quality firearm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaItoNdSonA

[FISHNFRANK]

A new 686 is $900. You can get two for the price of a Python. The Python is nice but it’s not twice as nice...

[The Gleam]

I posted on this very topic elsewhere just yesterday, and it seems to come up at least once a week or so.

I have several of the originals from various years, including blued, nickel, electroless nickle and stainless. I also have the new one in 6", and about the only prior example for which it exceeds are the prior rendition of the stainless Pythons.

It's a $1,200 gun at best, because in fact, that was supposed to be the MSRP in the first place. That people are bidding them up to $2,400 is asinine. Event that $1,499 price is ridiculous.

Like FISHNFRANK noted - you can get a better revolver (and better made) from Smith, for $500 less than the new Python.

The originals are still better made even with it's potential for timing faults, and so much of the fragility of what everyone likes to espouse about the originals is not wholly accurate, pure generalizing, and which were never meant to be "duty" guns either.

All Colt has done with the new Python is released a common revolver to the market no better than what was already available on the market from any number of Smith & Wesson or Ruger revolvers (not to mention the Smith P.C. guns) of the past 30 years, yet those can be had for much less, and still had gotten a better gun than the current Colt Python even with it being billed as being without the "weaknesses" of the originals.

And the irony is that it still has weaknesses as was learned in short order and the trigger is certainly no improvement.... and then they slapped the "Python" name on it for something that is marginally just a hair better than most any other common revolver - with people foolishly paying double the price because it says "Python" on the side.

Colt simply saw the mystique and attraction of what the gun world was placing on the original Python, which was boosted by its pop-culture rise by way of frequent appearance in a certain TV Soap Opera with zombies, and didn't want to miss out while the trend was still hot.

With $1,499 in hand to spend on a Python, I'd put it toward an early 1960s-1970s Blue example that was like NIB, even if the final bid/asking prices were $3,500.

That would be money better spent.

[k1dude]

Don't get it at Turners. Get it at Sportsman's Whorehouse for $1,500.

Yes, get it. It's $1,500 for a Colt. It's much cheaper than buying an original and IMHO, is superior to the original. They fixed the weaknesses of the original, and if you work the trigger like most people did to the original, the trigger is just as good or even better.

I didn't get an original when I could have from the 70's through the end of production because of their inherent weaknesses - which my friends ran into. It scared me off back then. Especially since the price was ridiculous even back then. I bought Smith's instead. But I ALWAYS wanted a Python just because they're so damn sexy looking.

You have to remember, all these people telling you the original trigger was better, are buying guns that have already had trigger work done on them. That's why they think they're better. They don't realize the gun they bought already had a trigger job.

CNC machining is superior to hand fitting in most cases. Sure you can find a hand fitted one that is exceptional, but many (if not most) weren't as good as a nice CNC'd Python.

If you have the budget, just do it.

[Pofoo]

The price is what it is. I wouldn't expect it to go lower in the near future.
Value is something only you can determine. Yes, you can always find something cheaper, but if this is what you want, I would shop around for the cheapest price and buy it now.