Please kill the snakes. Colts are not what there cracked up to be. Do to p1ss poor workmanship I'm not really into Colts anymore.(1911/pythons) beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. It's only skin deep. I been there, done the Colt thing. I can't afford to keep on paying top dollar for a lesser quality gun. When I lose money once I write that product off. When I lose money on three guns of the same brand now there's a gap in my wallet where my money once was and that spot in my safe is empty. But now thirty years later the s&w's are filling the empty spaces finally.
Stay with the s&w's don't drop the big money on the lesser quality colt guns. The snakes did nothing for me when they weren't reliable. I wish I had the chance to slam the colt garbage on there CEO's desk. After working for one of the top ten engineering groups in the country and doing R&D plus life testing before the products went into the field I learned a lot how some companies just push junk out. When colt cut back costs the quality control dept went first. Think about it. I had three guns I couldn't ccw carry which that's why I purchased them in the first place. These were made for paper weights or throwing.

I can purchase two or three s&w's to the cost of one over priced python.

I'll pass. I've had rugers for 35 years now. I just got into s&w's. Sorry I took so long. The scalpers during the dirty Harry era turned me off on the s&w revolvers. But I'm buying a quality s&w that I know will work if my life depends on it.

Don't let the good looks empty your wallet. If you own the s&w N Frame in 357 mag you have the best already.