Posted: 9/30/2004 5:04:51 PM EDT
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Hey guys, I may have an opportunity to get a Colt Python at a really good deal (basically trade for about $200-$400 worth of labor). I know it's a no brainer but here's the question... I never really paid much attention to Colt Python's until now so I just realized how much more expensive they are than say S&W. The question is why? Are they really that much better or is this another Colt=Pony=way over priced thing? Thanks |
| They are different. Many people prefer one over the other. I happen to like both but would rather shoot a Smith 19 or a DW 15 to the Python. I just prefer the trigger pull on them to the Colt. But each has its following and an older (not the modern Python Elite) is one of the really great handguns of all time. |
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Get it, shoot it, enjoy it...if you don't care for it and it's in good shape, they hold their value if you decide to "off" it. My 4 inch nickel Python shoots like a dream, but I beat on my Dan Wesson 715...both with the factory wooden stocks changed to rubber for more grip in rapid fire DA use. Sounds like a win-win situation for you. 
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Mainly because Colt doesn't make them anymore. They represent the days when Colt made a VERY high quality product and didn't skimp on hand fitting. While they weren't custom guns, they are beautifully made and since they just haven't been made for a long time, the value of them is high. Ross |
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www.colt.com/CMCI/images/Python_Caption.jpg The Python is still in production, abeit a high price. See here for the current production of Pythons: www.colt.com/CMCI/Python.asp I've heard that new production Pythons are in the $1,000 category. |
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YOU MUST GET THIS GUN! my dad was a ffl dealer back in the 80s and the quality on the pythons was superb. i can remember picking up colt promo material with 10 shots from a pair of pythons fired in like .87 seconds that could be covered by your hand. superb triggers. usually. i grew up figuring a 6" ss python would be my carry gun. then i figured out i can't shoot revolvers worth a damn. |
Well, kinda sorta. Any resemblance between a Python and Python Elite is pure marketing. It's like calling a Burger King Whopper a steak. |
The difference used to be that all the Elites were hand crafted by the Colt Custom Shop. You could tell the difference, BIG TIME, if you had the two side to side fingerin them. Dunno anymore. |
I think the Python Elites are still probably hand made from the Colt Custom shop, which may explain the lofty price tag. I think IF the Pythons were a regular production line item, they would probably be around $750-$850 each, my guess anyways. |
What kind of gun is this? Blued? SS? The blued ones are fairly common, the brushed SS less so, and the top of the line is the polished SS, it looked like nickeled. |
It's a polish SS model with a 4" barrel. The owner doesn't know much about guns but likes expensive stuff so it was probably bought based off of price. |
Oh man go for it! When I bought my NIB brushed SS Python back in 1985, I personally paid $570. The polished SS was $50 more because of the labor for the polishing. But then if you don't like light polished guns than its not for you. |
If you decide to sell it, I am here for you. 
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I just sold a 6" Stainless that was made in '89. I got $850 for it today at the Gun Show in Orlando. I saw many blue and stainless available from $900 - $1200. The $1200 had engraved Ivory Grips. There was one Elite that was there for $1275 FIRM. I told him that he would never see it! I came back 20 minutes later and some FOOL had paid that for it. Go Figure. I have 11 Pythons (remaining) and have sold and traded many of them. IF you can get that one for that price, DO IT NOW. Then sell if you do not like it. I have a 4" Polished Stainless that I will let go for $900.00, so you are $500 to the better right now! Enjoy the snake..... |
Give an AAR when you're thru. BTW: The Anacoda's action is based on the newer King Cobra rather than the Python because the King Cobra action requires a lot hand fitting. |
I still haven't shot it. i hope it isn't like every other revolver I have ever shot, if it is I would be saffier thorwing it at them. |
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The only Smith I ever had that might come close to the feel and accuracy of the Python was My 586 distinquished combat magnum! I now have a Trooper MK111 that has some of the wanted carateristics thickness between clylinder walls ,ect but still no Python!!! Bob
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