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Post by matt56 on Dec 29, 2019 19:10:59 GMT -5
I'm still waiting to hear the street price
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Post by magman on Dec 29, 2019 21:20:06 GMT -5
Can't wait til these hit the streets. Might get me one.
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Post by texasdude74 on Dec 29, 2019 21:26:17 GMT -5
I'm still waiting to hear the street price $1400 is what I was told.
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Post by squawberryman on Dec 30, 2019 18:24:17 GMT -5
Wonder how much "hand" work will go into one.
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Post by AxeHandle on Dec 30, 2019 18:33:53 GMT -5
You can bet a lot more than my old 586/686.... Cylinder latch is backwards... Cylinder turns the wrong way too!
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Post by kings6 on Dec 30, 2019 19:49:13 GMT -5
The WORSE trade if my life involved a beautiful brushed stainless steel python. Had it, shot it some but the 357 has never been a favorite for me so when the first bisley hunters come out in, naturally 41, I swapped it straight across for the Ruger. Once in hand I instantly knew the hunter was not for me balance wise but the python’s new owner had sold it and pocketed the hefty difference so fast it made your head swim. Yep that is how the python taught me about gun trading!
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Post by mccartycfii on Jan 1, 2020 0:03:23 GMT -5
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Post by mccartycfii on Jan 1, 2020 0:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by pacecars on Jan 1, 2020 10:06:20 GMT -5
The first thing I thought of when I saw it was I wonder if Clements could convert it to 10mm? I think I have an addiction
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Post by pacecars on Jan 1, 2020 11:09:32 GMT -5
David said no
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 2, 2020 9:23:32 GMT -5
Who’s going to post the first pic of the 2020 Python? ***** Having as friends Ben “Bear Man” Kilham, who worked at Colt until, “They laid off everyone who knows how to make guns,” and Jerry Moran, the Python’s premier shooter in IHMSA silhouette and a master of the gun’s lockwork for extremes of double action and single action marksmanship, I can hear the music now. Don’t mean to sound cynical, but Colt has a corporate culture of being out-of-sync with developments. Forget the post-WW II disaster of clinging to the government tit while eschewing civilian sales. That caper helped catapult Smith & Wesson into the second half of the 20th Century. Certainly the intransigence helped Bill Ruger carve his place in American gunmaking; which Ruger would have done anyway. The Colt Python is a great country club revolver, more labor-intensive than a classic Smith & Wesson. When S&W introduced the N-frame Highway Patrolman, a.k.a. Model 28----Model 27 guts in a dull blue raincoat----it was a true low cost alternative to the creamy deep blue .357 Magnum. Bill Ruger even called it “Smith & Wesson quality at a bargain price.” (The M-28 retailed $85 at a time the Blackhawk .357 Mag retailed $87.50.) Colt properly understood a Python without hand fitting is not a Python. Colt’s attempt to enter the second half of the 20th Century brought forth a succession of Mark This and Mark That revolvers, each an attempt to compete with S&W and that rising monster, Sturm, Ruger. The path was clear: build a revolver that requires no hand fitting. Easier said than done. For starters, the tolerance package must be skin tight: first, to engineer leakproof dimensions; second, make it come alive on the shop floor. So that a purple-ass baboon can assemble the sixgun and it works perfectly. To paraphrase Ronnie Wells, the programming must be perfectly configured and flawless, along with fixtures, otherwise the CNC machines produce imperfection. I am told Colt came near this alleged perfection, albeit for a single part which could not escape hand fitting. I sat with Ben Kilham and a former Colt engineer, sipping red wine nibbling Deb Kilham’s brownies, as the best-effort Colt MK was explained. My own experience with the Mark series is dismal. Doubt I’ll have the chance to evaluate the 2019-2020 reintroduction of the Python. Presented such an “opportunity,” the gun would have to match its forebear. My report would need to impress Jerry Moran and Ben Kilham; at least not insult their intelligence. But I would not BULLROAR these guys. Any more than I would tell a top silhouetter he or she needs the latest boat anchor to win. No way around the target. The target is the final arbiter of accuracy. The target against which a Colt Python must be tested sits a cool two football fields & two end zones downrange the muzzle. The distance does not fit in a football stadium. The ram measures 12-inches, back-to-belly. At a minimum, the sixgun must group 8-inches. There are shooters who will say, “David is getting soft.” I’ll take my licks. And then there is the double action, for which 50 yards is fair. David Bradshaw
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Post by 45MAN on Jan 3, 2020 10:17:36 GMT -5
MSRP IS SUPPOSE TO BE $1,499, ITS IN STAINLESS STEEL, 4 & 6 INCH BARRELS, AND IS SUPPOSE TO BE BEEFIER IN THE FRAME THAN THE ORIGINAL PYTHON. ALWAYS WANTED A SS PYTHON, JUST NEVER NEEDED TO SPEND BIG BUCKS ON A MID FRAMED 357
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Post by magman on Jan 3, 2020 15:20:55 GMT -5
I see when they come out, they are allocated. Will probably never find one.
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Post by rangersedge on Jan 3, 2020 21:49:27 GMT -5
I suspect some collectors with a bunch of old pythons are not thrilled with the news.
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Post by crazycarl on Jan 4, 2020 1:03:03 GMT -5
I've never particularly been a Colt fan & have never owned one of any stripe. No denying the importance of the 1911, SAA, or their DA revolvers, but I've never had the dosh to pony up for a pony, especially a Python. That said, the 6" Colt Python is the aesthetic I judge other DA revolvers against.
I'll take function over form any day, but the Python is a dang nice lookin' gun. A DW 715 pistol pack has been working its way toward the top of my list & when I'm ready to make that happen, I will make sure I'm as up on the scuttlebutt as I can be, fondle both side by side & make my decision from there. I can do $1500, but I can't do whatever old Pythons have gotten up to (quit even looking years ago). If the new Pythons turn out to be shooters & feel as good as the DW's do to me, I might just break down & pony up for that particular pony.
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