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PTHOR | 09-07-2009 11:13 AM
I need a Colt Python I've needed this gun for a long time, all efforts to secure one (for a reasonable price) have proven fruitless. Anyone looking to sell, or trade one, I'm interested in a nice 90% or better.

ruprick | 09-07-2009 11:26 AM
Re: I need a Colt Python In my opinion the finest revolver ever made. Nothing matches them for fit and finish. They have the finest blueing I've ever seen on a gun. I'd imagine you are just going to have to pay the prevailing market price.....$1000 minimum for perhaps a deal on a 90%......up to $2000+ for NIB.

wallew | 09-07-2009 11:55 AM
Re: I need a Colt Python Tons are available over on Gun Broker. But as has been said, $1k is about 'going price' for a 90%+ Python. http://v4.beta.gunbroker.com/ That link is to the version 4 (beta) test software that I've been previewing. It gives Gun Broker kind of an 'Ebay' type look.

reformed wastrel | 09-07-2009 05:40 PM
Re: I need a Colt Python If Colt would start making their double-action revolver line again, and sell them to the public, they'd make huge amounts of money. I'm a S&W fanboy and I'd pick up a couple if they were available new (I don't want to pay the current huge premium on the used ones, either). I don't understand why Colt won't do this.

.41Dave | 09-08-2009 12:01 PM
Re: I need a Colt Python Quote:
Originally Posted by reformed wastrel (Post 1908732) If Colt would start making their double-action revolver line again, and sell them to the public, they'd make huge amounts of money. I'm a S&W fanboy and I'd pick up a couple if they were available new (I don't want to pay the current huge premium on the used ones, either). I don't understand why Colt won't do this.
Colt revolver designs require a lot of hand fitting, so I would imagine that the reasons are as follows: A) The master craftsmen who knew how to do the work have long since retired or passed away. B) Even if you had a workforce with the necessary experience, craftsmanship isn't cheap, and the market for $2000+ revolvers is probably not very large. C) Thanks to the EPA, that deep beautiful classic blue is cost prohibitive. D) Last but not least, the current management at Colt is a bunch of wankers.

wallew | 09-08-2009 12:04 PM
Re: I need a Colt Python Quote:
Originally Posted by .41Dave (Post 1910033) Colt revolver designs require a lot of hand fitting, so I would imagine that the reasons are as follows: A) The master craftsmen who knew how to do the work have long since retired or passed away. B) Even if you had a workforce with the necessary experience, craftsmanship isn't cheap, and the market for $2000+ revolvers is probably not very large. C) Thanks to the EPA, that deep beautiful classic blue is cost prohibitive. D) Last but not least, the current management at Colt is a bunch of wankers.
.41Dave, I concur with everything you say, excetp the classic blue. NOT cost prohibitive. If anything it would fall into 'A' - in that to get a great deep blue, they SHOULD be done by hand. Now THAT might be cost prohibitive. But dang man, a $2000 revolver is but two oz's of gold at today's current price. Not that it's cheap, but it's not that bad.

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