A friend had one at the club the other day. I had finished on the pistol range and was just getting the 20 gauge out to shoot a round or two of skeet, but he brought it over to show me.

What can I say? It was nice. Seemed tight, held nice, obviously a quality gun. I own an original Trooper .357, and I've fired original Pythons, only dry fired this one. SA pull was no better or worse than the others, but DA pull was clearly lighter and smoother than I have experienced on original Pythons. It seems like a well made gun. If it were an $800-$900 gun I might be tempted. No revolver is worth what they are going for IMHO, but that's just my opinion.

Colt had some serious quality control issues with the initial release of the new Python, hopefully those have been addressed. The Python has always been a top shelf revolver and continues to be priced at the high end of the spectrum. The new lockwork is likely to be more durable than that of the original Python, so that's good.

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I also handled the new Colt Python as the above video shows. The double action is smooth but the trigger weight (10.5 lbs) is almost 1 pound higher than any of my original Pythons. The single action on my 2020 Python is 5.5 pounds. This is almost double the single action trigger weight on any of my original Pythons.

My first duty gun was a used Colt Python that I got for $100 in 1966. I changed duty gun to a S&W Model 66 in 1972 because my Marine Patrol duties had screwed-up the finish on my Python.

I needed to mention my years of Python experience to show that I'm not a Colt hater when I tell people that my go to stainless .357 is a S&W 686.