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Posted: 9/6/2026 3:24:15 PM EDT
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| I've never seen one. I have 2 original ones ,a 4 inch and 6 inch. Both great guns. |
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Pic for people that try not to even look in the new gun case: Some more info on the old and new versions: Colt Python Rebirth |
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I like my four-inch Pythons to have two vents. I don't like the Canadian 4.25 inch barrel length. It's America, it should be four-inches even. And I don't like the crummy rear sight. In reality it's closer to a Colt Trooper. That said, the new 4.25 blue steel Python I shot last year was very accurate, and had a better trigger than the old Pythons. My 1976 Python. Attached File |
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I have the 4.25” blue. Great gun but…. All due respect to Altamont, but the grips that come with the gun, while not an abomination, are vastly inferior to the grips on the originals. Deer Hollow can fix that, but not inexpensively. The factory rear sight is in fact an abomination. The long-dead master craftsmen who in years past created the wood and steel art that came from the Hartford factory would be ashamed to put a sight like that on one of their guns. Wilson Combat can fix that problem. So, I guess to get the gun I really wanted was the purchase price plus the grips plus the rear sight. Worthwhile? I suppose. It sits amongst a dozen and a half revolvers and is probably number 4 of my pack. Coming in at Number 3 is a lovely 1960’s era M27 with 5 inch barrel. The deep blue, the serrated top strap—only Registered Magnums from the 30’s to the 50’s compare in the Smith lineup. Number 2 is a 1960’s era K-38. Smooth like buttah. The best shooting 38/357 I own, and I think the best shooting 38/357 ever made, is the Colt Officer’s Model of 1950. Sorry if this hijacked the thread. |
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I don't know yet. Just picked up this 3-incher and will shoot it tomorrow. It seems to work fine dry firing it. I've always been more of a S&W guy, but the short barrel Pythons just look tough. I've also been picking up a lot of D Frames (Det. Spl., Cobra, Agent) for carry purposes. Attached File Attached File |
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I would really like them if Colt could make any with quality on a consistent basis. They are give Smith and Wesson a run for their money on a race to the bottom. I like the idea of a stronger frame and internals but what does it matter if you can't even get a gun with rifling in the barrel or one that will turn the cylinder when you cock the hammer or pull the trigger? |
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Originally Posted By desertmoon: I would really like them if Colt could make any with quality on a consistent basis. They are give Smith and Wesson a run for their money on a race to the bottom. I like the idea of a stronger frame and internals but what does it matter if you can't even get a gun with rifling in the barrel or one that will turn the cylinder when you cock the hammer or pull the trigger? 
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One of my buddies picked up a stainless 6" and it shoots every bit as well as our other buddy's blued 4" '60s vintage with a trigger that was slicked up by a Colorado State Patrol armorer from back in the day when CSP carried Pythons. The 6" trigger wasn't as nice as the vintage but it wasn't anything to complain about either. It held is own it's own. We had both of the same day, shooting the same ammo. All of us were impressed. |
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My son picked up a new 6" about a month ago. I'm a hard-core S&W fan boy but, although I haven't had a chance to get to the range with it yet, I have to say the fit and finish are perfect. DA trigger is amazing but the SA, while crisp, seems a little heavy. Of course esthetics are one thing and the proof is in the performance. 
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Took my 3" blued out today. No issues with my .38 Spl reloads. It was fairly accurate. Didn't shoot any .357 mag loads through. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By dump1567: Took my 3" blued out today. No issues with my .38 Spl reloads. It was fairly accurate. Didn't shoot any .357 mag loads through. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/19737/IMG_3796_jpeg-3824380.JPG That's a really nice looking gun. I was recently really tempted to get a 4" blued model but went with a 586 instead. |
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Originally Posted By 03RN: That's a really nice looking gun. I was recently really tempted to get a 4" blued model but went with a 586 instead. Both is always the answer. And ones a 3", so technically there's a difference. Attached File |
As a Smith guy, I resisted the new Pythons for a few years. Even went to the LGS a few times to buy one and walked out with Smiths instead (586 and a 625). When the 3” came out I folded. Owned three of the old ones and they all went down the road. This one’s a keeper. Yes, the rear sight sucks and the single action is heavy. Fixed the rear sight set screw with some purple locktite. Single action got better with a ton of dry fire, |
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| Saw a new one at the gun store and tested the trigger out. Managed to lock up the gun on the very first try by short-stroking the trigger. After I got that sorted out, the long stacking trigger was pretty miserable in DA, so different from my SWs that I would never get used to it. So that was a hard pass right out the gate. Too bad too because the super polished mirror SS is pretty sexy. |
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If you're not a member of Americanfightingrevolver.com you're wrong and should feel bad but they have a few good videos on the new pythons Attached File |
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Originally Posted By peacematu: Do not own one but one persons new Python had at least 1 MIM part which broke. This was mentioned on the Yankee something or other video channel. If the channel was The Yankee Marshal you wasted a few minutes of your life watching it. The guy is a buffoon. |
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I didn’t like the old one, so….I lusted for one after Magnum Force but “never meet your heroes…” There’s something odd about Colt revolvers grip angle & their raised “checkering.” But even with different grips, I ditched my old Python for a S&W N frame & L frame. Rugers are good, too, but Colt revolvers are an odd blend of too curved forward by several degrees & just too small. It’s even weirder that the 1911A1 has such a perfect grip angle, you would have thought Colt could have consulted JM Browning for help…or, even the SIG-ologists who designed the P220 that morphed into the P226. YMMV. |
| I inherited a Python from my dad, whom passed in 2013. It has a blued frame and stainless barrel and cylinder. I paid the Colt Archives fee and they told me the original gun was fully blued. Try as I might, I cannot for the life of me figure out how this combination occurred. Somebody told me it was fashionable back in the day to swap parts - unfortunately, I don't have my father to ask anymore. I wouldn't sell that gun for all the gold in Egypt.... |