What are tomorrow's Pythons?

[JCM]

Curious... since Colt Pythons are so collectible and valuable today we all wish we would have bought one back when they were more reasonable.

So I'm wondering, which gun of today has the potential to be tomorrow's Python? What gun can we go out and buy today that 20 years from now we'll be telling everyone we got one when they were only $500?

What do you think? I've only been in this hobby for a year so I don't know enough myself to give an opinion :-)

[SocomM4]

I don't see what's so special about the Python. I'll take a 586 and be just as happy.

[DesertSniper]

I have a python and a 686 and my 686 trigger is almost as nice!

[boltmopar]

I don't see what's so special about the Python. I'll take a 586 and be just as happy.

That is something I never understood aswell. With the money for a python you could get two smiths and have the trigger upgraded by smith for less. In the words of my dad, "The 586/686 killed the python."

[DesertSniper]

The lock up is much tighter in the python, my 686 is a little sloppy.

[WDE91]

Hipoint 9mm...

[Hakoomay]

Hipoint 9mm...

really?

[JCM]

686 is definitely on my list. Rented one at the range and it was nice.

anything else?

[Tanner68]

Tough one to answer. I don't know if any of todays guns will be admired in the future for their craftsmanship. Maybe some auto pistols with low production numbers will be coveted.

A lot of C&R rifles have potential, but the golden days of acquisition have passed. But who knows, 15 years from now you might still cry looking back at todays prices. There are still exceptional Garands to be had for $600-$1200. Many K31 rifles will outshoot much more expensive rifles, and can be had from $250 and up.

[cmichini]

Glock

[nsginc]

I see the s&w 610 just going up in price.

[cudakidd]

Limited run Smiths from the Perfromance Center, Limited numbers (150,300,etc) higher quaility, custom features. Some of mine below:

[SocomM4]

Bottom one is sexy.

[Squid]

mark my words, today's early model RHINO revolvers will be

tomorrow's equal to original Colt SAA, Luger, Broomhandle or 1911.


Why? Outside of couple quirks seen in any new gun, they seem like a really good, if weird, gun according to all reviews I've read.

I'd still have a hard time buying one myself.

[The Gleam]

Any gun that you would suspect in it's day was considered elite in its class, of limited production, of extreme and superb quality with a price to match, but due to other market options being available for half the cost ( or less ) that do the job of the same caliber or features, even if marginal of the superior product.

By example:

Freedom Arms Revolvers - as soon as Ruger, Smith and Taurus came out with large-bore revolvers in .454 Casull, .480 Ruger, and .460 & .500 S&W, their sales and popularity dropped. But their guns are works of art and the quality is as good as ever. These are twice the guns Pythons had ever been.

But it doesn't have to be a revolver to be compared to a Python. Ed Brown, Les Baer, and Nighthawk 1911s may not hold their own as well considering cost when other manufacturers are coming in with quality 1911s that fit most people's needs on a wide-scale. And what happens when their proprietors pass on? Their original crafted guns will definitely be sought after, especially in the earlier years from Brown and Baer.

Or oddities that were well-made, beautiful guns no longer being made like the Mateba? Or many of the specialty guns from Lew Horton?

Also consider some of the higher end rifles of late that have suddenly disappeared because every manufacture and their subsidiary now make an AR or AK based gun on the cheap; already there are quite a few well-made semi-auto rifles that have proven too costly to continue building; consider something like Robinson Armament's M96, milled receiver AKs, or the recent MSAR STG-556, higher-end ARs, and original (not clone) semi-automatic rifles from Armalite, HK, Colt, IMI/Uzi, Izmash (struggling financially), or the like. (Unfortunately some of the latter are inaccessible to us in CA).


I can think of others, but that's a start. It gives you an idea of how the Python came about; as soon as Glocks hit the scene, everyone was trading in their "old Python revolvers" for that new fandangled Glock, often at cost TOWARD the purchase of a Glock - prior to Colt reducing production and making it a custom-shop thing only.