Ok, a stainless snub Python....what do we think about prices like these?

Robert

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

Probably about as common as a nickle plated Registered Magnum 5" w/factory Ivory grips...what do you suppose that is worth?

I don't "collect", but more power to those that do!

I have a 6” King Cobra and last time I priced checked it I saw the 2200-2600 range on Brokegunner. It doesn’t surprise me to see this at all.

Ridiculous. I suppose you are supposed to look at it as an investment.

Not too shocked myself. Getting used to seeing some crazy prices being paid for some guns. A matching K98k mauser dated 1940 went for $5000 a short time back. Think a few "bidding wars" involved often.

This helps explain the popularity of pre-lock S&W revolvers.

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S&WHF 366

Pythons have crazy prices to say the least. A 2.5 inch barreled piece is not what you would call common. I guess you could call it an investment. I had a six inch Python and sold it because it was to muzzle heavy. I might still have it if it had been a 2.5 incher. However, I am very happy with my 3.5 inch Model 27-2. So, you'll forgive me if I pass on this one.

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USMC 69-93 Combat Pistol Inst.

Well... it is *the* finest production revolver to have ever been manufactured.

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Keep Up The Fire!!

Well........there is a lot of debate in that statement. Folks who own Korth's would argue that point. And I imagine that there are others in that mix.

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Korth??? Korth?! Lol A quick look at gunbroker will show three dozen Korths up for sale and only 3-4 bids on one or two of them. I invite you to take a look at the Pythons that are up for sale.

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There are 10 times as many pythons listed, over 350 of them, and about the same percentage of those have bids on them about 10%

Robert

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

I think I don't care how someone else spends their money. On my more libertarian days, I even think that it's none of my business.

Of course, forums would have a lot less posts if everyone felt the same way I did, so here's a toast to diversity.

The guys at Colt have to be looking at Python prices and be thinking about reintroducing it.

Let's just hope they don't improve it by adding an internal lock.

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My sgntr is mor thn 30 chrctrs

$100,000 cars, $5000 suits, hey if you can do it, good on ya.

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Time wounds all heels

What I was trying to say is the their are owners of Registered Magnums, Triple Locks, Colt SAA's, Manurhin MR73 and others who will argue which is the finest revolver made.

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Fine lookin pistola whatever the price!

Right or wrong, it's the way things are with Pythons these days. Hand fitted by Colt's best gunsmiths. If I had one, I'd be afraid to shoot it. What gets under my skin is the guys who think all Colt revolvers rate the high dollar. $800-$900 for a Police Positive, Detective Special, or original Cobra? Sure, Colt doesn't make them any more, but they were production guns. Colt made a million of them and parts are still available. It breaks, you can get it fixed.

A few of us who managed to rat-hole a couple of old Colts don't think those prices are crazy at all!

Personally, I like to think of them as good retirement planning.

Yes, kind of expensive.


Jeff
SWCA #1457

When the economy is good muscle cars, artwork and Colt Pythons skyrocket in value. When the economy is bad they come up for sale at a greatly reduced price. Now some of the 3 and 4 digit serial number Pythons and the NIB ones, their value remains pretty constant. More power to the buyers and sellers of these fine firearms, me I'm happy with my 686-3 2 1/2".

It’s the “greater fool” strategy, always be another fool to pay more than what one did.

My dream Colt in a 4” Diamondback to fill the hole between a Match target and Frontier Scout.


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Well, it makes me wish I'd hung onto the Python I bought myself in 1973 as a getting out of the Navy present. I sold it to help fund my college expenses (the GI Bill didn't cover everything.) I also bought several other guns that I also sold for the same reason...wish I'd hung onto them all. If I had, I wouldn't want to sell them now, so I guess it's just as well.

It is not just Colts that have gone crazy

Have you seen the prices some folks are asking for a used plain old lever action. Not even ones that old

They have about tripled in the last 10 years

peterGun,

I have a couple of Pythons I really enjoy. But I'm with you on the Diamondback. I have a couple of 22's and a 38 with a 6" barrel. I enjoy them even more than the Pythons. They have great triggers, blueing is like liquid metal, the gorgeous grips fit me perfectly, and the balance is the best I own.

I'm glad no one listens to keyboard jockeys on the net. We wouldn't be able to afford the Diamondbacks.


Prescut

Python prices have more to do with a certain cable TV series than anything else, these days. Especially if they're shiny guns.

The best condition brings the highest price.
I see four inch nickeled Pythons at around $4000.
People with deep pockets don't haggle over what they want.

I saw a 2 &1/2 blued Python at the Louisville show with a very small amount of wear (cylinder line) marked $3800.

I don't think it sold.

GF

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SWCA #2420

In the several decades I’ve had enough money to seriously consider purchasing handguns I have never understood the money people are/were willing to pay for Colt Pythons. These days, the prices are so crazy I just laugh.

I’m happy the people who like them have them, but if I am buying the gun to use it I’d ten-times rather have a nice S&W.

Colts....nice guns. Too rich for my blood.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

REMINDER:
These "Jewels" have never been touched by human hands, lived in a smoke free, germ free, fire proof safe. Only viewed by the crown Heads of Europe and then though a thick glass window.

(besides there are fools around with more money than they can spend)

well at least there are two people I know of that are crazier than me!

In the early 1980's you could drop down an extra $150.00 over a the cost of a new Smith & Wesson 27 or 586.Most shooters passed by them and most likely because of their reputation for needing to be re timed more frequently than any other revolver out there.Whether the latter is true or not,the Python had that reputation attached to it.

In the late 70s and 80's, when I first heard of them, I was so poor I could only look at pictures of them. Could not afford a Python either, but could at the least hold one in the gun shop. I did buy a late 50's Trooper .357 ( the first year that they combined the Trooper model with the 357 model. Was told it had Python innards in it, wish I still had it). This was 1974, an Sgt. in the Corps did not make a lot back then.

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And don't forget that they are gluten-free!

An old Colt collector told me years ago that when the 1873 Colt Single Action Army revolver first came out, you could buy a new one with a $20 gold piece, and when we had the conversation in the early 1990's, you still could.
He said that had pretty much held true ever since 1873.
The point being that the Colt SAA had always at minimum kept pace with inflation, and so were good investments, and had the advantage of being attractive, potentially useful tools as well.

Quite simply, that's the going rate right now. Started at a penny and finished at $6600.

To me, the Python I bought new for 1300 in 1997 was just another (very pretty) gun I could shoot and enjoy. I added a 1973 .22 Diamondback since, and some bonded ivory grips. I don’t intend to sell them, and here (Switzerland) prices have not inflated that much. But I hear they’re not making them anymore. And I still want an Anaconda if I can find a nice one at a decent price (that’d be 1500 around here).

I do not see anything wrong with how other people are spending their money, whether it is on guns, cars, luxury homes, or pick up trucks.

Fine English or German SxS shotguns start around that price ...

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I have a "mini collection" of Colts. SAAs in 44 Special caliber and two Pythons. I bought the one shown below many years ago. It has Roper style stocks by Keith Brown and is a great shooter (as is the 6-inch). Click on the photo for a better look.

Bill

At those prices they’ll spend the rest of their life under a display case for people to look at only. Personally I think it’s all hype. The Python isn’t rare and was still in production 13 years ago. It was a beautiful gun but I’d rather shoot a Colt Trooper, which are still sold at decent prices today.

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I saw that same $20 gold piece quote in a gun rag late 70's. The author was referring to a Patterson Colt which then went for $40,000 in decent condition.

I have a few 10mm and one 45 Colt 1911s. Don't know if my Double Eagle 10mm qualifies as a 1911, sort of half of one I guess. The little Unicorn stamped on them really adds value.

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9tenz

Other than the usual, or typical replies that we sometimes see in this type of post (good post by the way @ OP, don't read more into this than there is)...

The price on cool luxury items in general has gone up. People tend not to part with the classic Corvettes, or Impalas, vintage guitars, vintage posters, guns, vintage bicycles, and on and on.

If you think something is 'cool' odds are about 100,000 other people do too and we are all connected online now.

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Rather be outdoors

As a side note, there was a type and model of classic car I liked and I was fortunate to be able to own many of them over the past 10 years. Now you simply can't find them used unless you spend $ 35K - $ 65K. I sold mine years ago for double what I paid for it and thought I was doing good..."I can always get another...''. Now I am changing my view. If I want something and can afford it, buy it and hold it. Period.

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That Colt has only appreciated maybe 300% since it was new. That's a poor investment compared to S&W combat grips that have inflated 1000%, and go on guns that were never sold with them. That baffles me....paying collector prices for parts that don't belong.

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I have only combat grips on my S&W, some I got new and reasonably priced 30 years ago, some I had to shell out $ 250 for. That’s the limit where I stopped buying them, so I am still short one pair for my 629 Classic Hunter.

They just fit my hands very nicely and appeal to my eyes. No collection ambition on grips for me.

Mind you I saw some copies on eBay that seemed decently made, may try one pair.

I don’t understand your comment “go on guns that were never sold with them.”

When I bought mine new, they were like an option, an official alternative to the target grips that came on most guns, and which are too wide at the bottom, allowing the gun to twist, rise and modify the grip under recoil.

The only SB gun I know that came with them is the 17-6 with full underlug. Were there other ?