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Python Prices.. Shooting Times 1978
I was thumbing through some really old magazines, and found the March 1978 Shooting Times with a cover story on the Colt Python..
Prices shown are adjusted for inflation..  
The list prices from Colt were
6 inch blue $349.00 = $1,329.26 Today
6 inch nickel $369.00 = $1,405.44 Today
4 inch blue $344.00 = $1,310.22 Today
4 inch nickel $364.00 = $1,386.39 Today
2 1/2 inch blue $339.00 = $1,291.18 Today
Ahh... for the good old days
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yep
That would have been a good weeks pay check back then, or two bad weeks!!
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Originally Posted by ditrina
I was thumbing through some really old magazines, and found the March 1978 Shooting Times with a cover story on the Colt Python..
The list prices from Colt were
6 inch blue $349.00 = $1,329.26 Today
6 inch nickel $369.00 = $1,405.44 Today
4 inch blue $344.00 = $1,310.22 Today
4 inch nickel $364.00 = $1,386.39 Today
2 1/2 inch blue $339.00 = $1,291.18 Today
Ahh... for the good old days |
I will take one each of your
listed "today" prices.
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That's funny, I bought my 6" blue one in 78 for $389. Must have been some mark up even back then. I know I had a hard time finding mine. They were not that easy to come by in the gun shops around here.
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I bought a new blue 6" Python in 1982 for $440. That has to be one of the most over-rated guns ever. Sold it and moved on...
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Pythons outran the inflation rate increase. The shorter the barrel the higher the price.
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You are $1-2k low on your 'today' prices... Or is that the inflation adjusted value of the 1979 price?
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I read post #1 not to mean current prices for Pythons today but what a Python should cost us today due to $ inflation...not Python inflation.
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I should have invested my money in Colts instead of Betamax players...
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You are $1-2k low on your 'today' prices... Or is that the inflation adjusted value of the 1979 price?
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Adjusted for inflation..
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There's inflation and then there's reality...
6" Python at my LGS w/box and paperwork for $3300.
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Think that's bad, find one from the early 60s and flip through the mail-order/surplus ads in the back to see the $29.99 Hi-Powers, etc.
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I was working at an LGS in that general time frame. I'm sure we sold some Pythons, but as Bullseye and PPC was the rage right then, we stayed fairly busy selling and sending M10's and M14's off to Jim Clark's shop in Louisiana (or was it Alabama?)
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Clark's was in Lousiana and still is and run by his son. I bought several Pythons back in the day. They ran around $390 new. I sold them off over the years. Wish that I had kept them along with a few N-frame Smiths that I let go.
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In 1977, I wanted to buy a .357 revolver. The Python was $325 and the S&W Model 19 was $225. I remember thinking that I had never felt a gun so smooth when I was handling the Python. But, as a college student, I just didn't have the money. I ended up buying the Model 19 (4" nickel) which I still have today. (See my avatar picture). Regrets? Not really.
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In 1993 my 6" Bright Stainless Python cost me $590. My $265 Dan Wesson shot group sizes that were half as big at 25 yds. Don't regret selling it... just the financial gains I missed out on.
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If only i had the foresight to stash a few away back in 1978...
But then, i was at that time a Senior in High School so 350
bucks might as well have been a million bucks.
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I've got a 1957 catalog from Sports. Inc. in Chicago. This catalog has both the retail prices and the "dealer cost's" from 1957.
Python's were only available then with a 6" barrel
Retail Price $125.00
Dealer Cost 101.53
As an added note, S&W .357 magnum N-frame (blue or nickel) were Retail $120.00......Dealer $97.48
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Quote:
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I bought a new blue 6" Python in 1982 for $440. That has to be one of the most over-rated guns ever. Sold it and moved on...
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Agreed. I bought a 4" blued Python in 1992, used but in 'as new' condition. It was nice to look at but I always hated the trigger - it stacked significantly before release. I always shoot revolvers DA. It remained in the safe, very seldom got to the range, and I traded it last year on a Walther. I haven't missed it one bit.
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A little off topic but since were on memory land. Old gun mag prices on surplus from the 50s and 60s before the infamous GCA of 1968.
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Notice in Italianssports pic, the use of the "RARE" word was hot way back when.
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Saw a 6" nickel Python this afternoon listed at $2699.00, and it was a long way from new. Ridiculous!
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Absolute craziness.... At Eugene-Springfield "Cabela's", today, a 4" Blue c. 80's listed at
$2,499.99......
Thinking about how many neato "old" Smiths that I could buy with that amount of $$$! I just couldn't bring myself to spend that kinda of scratch on a Python. And, I've had a couple of Pythons many years ago. Wonderfully accurate but some of them had fitting and function problems that I couldn't overlook so they went for other guns that I wanted/needed. Had a couple of mid 60's Pythons, a blue 4" and blue 6"... THOSE two are the ones that I want back. The others - not a chance.
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