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Post by squawberryman on Nov 20, 2018 4:09:30 GMT -5
Has anyone ever had a Colt Python worked on for the action? There's lots of write up about the subject, just wondering if anyone here has ever had one done up. Thank you
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Post by JM on Nov 20, 2018 8:33:13 GMT -5
Many of the Python Masters have passed away. Might check with Cylinder & Slide.
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Post by jdoc on Nov 20, 2018 9:01:52 GMT -5
Contact Jack Huntington also.
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 20, 2018 9:05:55 GMT -5
Has anyone ever had a Colt Python worked on for the action? There's lots of write up about the subject, just wondering if anyone here has ever had one done up. Thank you ***** Jerry Moran’s IHMSA silhouette Pythons were factory stock with his trigger job. During our visit around the recent memorial for Bill Ruger, Jr., at Blue Mountain, Jerry told me his main steel revolver is on barrel number six. Moran’s work included full-up action jobs for the most discriminating of double action shooters. I’ve shot Moran Pythons, with and against Jerry himself. We’re due for a talk, so I’ll ask Jerry whether he still does work for others. Ben “Bear Man” Kilham worked at Colt and worked on Pythons for me. The Kilhams, however, are over their collarbones with black bears, and I doubt he has the time.... David Bradshaw |
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Post by potatojudge on Nov 20, 2018 11:18:45 GMT -5
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Post by ericp on Nov 20, 2018 17:00:43 GMT -5
Has anyone ever had a Colt Python worked on for the action? There's lots of write up about the subject, just wondering if anyone here has ever had one done up. Thank you ***** Jerry Moran’s IHMSA silhouette Pythons were factory stock with his trigger job. During our visit around the recent memorial for Bill Ruger, Jr., at Blue Mountain, Jerry told me his main steel revolver is on barrel number six. Moran’s work included full-up action jobs for the most discriminating of double action shooters. I’ve shot Moran Pythons, with and against Jerry himself. We’re due for a talk, so I’ll ask Jerry whether he still does work for others. Ben “Bear Man” Kilham worked at Colt and worked on Pythons for me. The Kilhams, however, are over their collarbones with black bears, and I doubt he has the time.... In correspondence the good Mr. Moran stated that he was doing one each for his children but that he was otherwise out of it. He also shared some very interesting work on a GP 100. Eric |
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Post by squawberryman on Nov 20, 2018 17:19:58 GMT -5
Thank you all. I have a 6" Python I paid 375 dollars for MANY years ago at Bootie's pawn shop in a bad part of Orlando. I just had to have the trigger gold plated (I was in my 20's, now I'm 53) as at the time they were gold plating the emblems on cars on our lot. I took it to a local smith and watched him use a too big screw driver when reinstalling the sideplate. A nice 22 1/2 degree scrape on the side that gold cost me.
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Post by jfs on Nov 20, 2018 17:27:01 GMT -5
I had Austin Behlert work on my 4" Python action along with installing his trigger he made for them.... Austin has long since passed... So has my Python....
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 20, 2018 21:08:24 GMT -5
"I have a 6" Python I paid 375 dollars for MANY years ago at Bootie's pawn shop in a bad part of Orlando. I just had to have the trigger gold plated (I was in my 20's, now I'm 53)....”
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Should have asked holster innovator Chic Gaylord who worked on his Colt Pythons with gold plated hammers and triggers. The actions were smooth as cream. Gold is soft, and I remember mention of 24 carat being much too soft; a lower carat, less soft gold was used for the plating. That is now over a half-century ago, and I suspect the boys have long since joined the Feathered Choir. There are serious aficionados of the classic Colt double action, Charles Askins, Chic Gaylord, and Jerry Moran among them. I, too, love the gun for its shooting quality of better examples, but Colt lost me when it failed to make a .44 Magnum. And when finally it did, Colt didn't in any way challenge the Model 29 in refinement, nor challenge the Redhawk on any front. The Anaconda is just another muddy reptile, as its lockwork studiously applies the cheapness campaign that poisoned its non-Python .357 Magnums. Colt should have been able to pull it off, which is to say to engineer a smooth double action requiring an absolute minimum of hand fitting. Alas, the bean counters cut talent off at the knees.
The Python is a great offhand revolver. A fast clean lock time. Single action may be set for lighter break than a Smith & Wesson; the only thing comparable is a big frame Dan Wesson, which single action may be set clean & light, with fast lock time. Not only is Python hammer fall fast, it jolts the gun less than any other revolver. Which is why a beginning shooter can be instructed to do well with it quickly. Stimulating music to the beginner.
Better to leave your Python as is and shoot, than have a cannibal touch it.
David Bradshaw
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Post by squawberryman on Nov 21, 2018 12:52:29 GMT -5
Sage Mr. Bradshaw
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Post by bushog on Nov 21, 2018 14:13:42 GMT -5
I had Austin Behlert work on my 4" Python action along with installing his trigger he made for them.... Austin has long since passed... So has my Python.... What I would do for that revolver...... |
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 21, 2018 18:35:35 GMT -5
Jerry Moran built a Python for Charlie Dees, publisher of Police Marksman Magazine, in 1975 or ’76. This Jerry Moran Python got borrowed in 1976 or ’77 by an Alabama State Trooper by the handle jim Collins, who stroked the double action to a PPC record 600x600 in a leg match.
David Bradshaw
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Post by robrcg on Nov 23, 2018 13:42:31 GMT -5
Has anyone ever had a Colt Python worked on for the action? There's lots of write up about the subject, just wondering if anyone here has ever had one done up. Thank you Sandy Garrett at Northern Virginia Gun Works is a Pistolsmiths Guild member who knows Pythons. |
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Post by squawberryman on Nov 23, 2018 18:17:27 GMT -5
Thanks Rob
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Post by groo on Dec 6, 2018 13:33:45 GMT -5
Groo here
Had mine done by a local smith [Rudy Spence] who worked for the FBI later.
He said that the python worked on angles not springs like S&W.
You mess up, you get a new part............
PS mine is like 40 years old and had many buckets of bullets through it.
Never broke nothing, and will still shoot the hairs of a nat.....
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