Firearmfanatic
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Saw this article on the American Rifleman: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articl ... paign=0117.
Could the Python be far behind?
Could the Python be far behind?
Saw this article on the American Rifleman: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articl ... paign=0117.
Could the Python be far behind?
A new hand fitted Python made with quality parts would probably be in the Korth revolver price range and too expensive for the average shooter.
Yeah, I have a python I bought in the early 90's from a friend, boxed and unfired. I shot it. Real sweet pistol. But if Colt truly started that line up again, I'd look for the cost to be high per gun. A lotta work went into those guns that most people don't know about or appreciate.They could bring back the Python, but would it be anywhere near the same gun as the classic? Still, it is nice to see Colt back in the DA revolver market and to have an alternate to the S&W guns with their locks.
I suspect the next model they would release would be a 5 round version of this gun without a hammer, or at least with a shroud. It would also be easy to for them to take this platform and release models with longer barrels, probably a 4", maybe 3" & 6"? But to say they would bring back the Python, well they can't, because it would only be a Python in name. It wouldn't be a real Python, the thing that set that gun apart from even the other Colt models was the degree of hand fitting the master gunsmiths at the factory applied to the gun. Otherwise, it was the same internally as any other Colt of the day. And only the most experienced factory gunsmiths worked on the Pythons. The whole reason they stopped making them was because they were too expensive to build. This new Colt is certainly designed to be mass produced. It would really be a shame to put the name "Python" on a gun like that. Now King Cobra, that is more likely, and it could even look a lot like a Python, but probably won't bear the Python name...at least it shouldn't.