I like them all. There's little question that you get better value from older S&Ws than older Colts. Newer guns, can't really say. My newest S&W was made in 2016 and my newest Colt is one of the Pythons I bought in 2022.

You get a lot more variety with S&W too. Colt seems to stay close to .22, .38, .357, and .44 with the DA guns made since WWII. Sure, there have been some outliers like the .45 Colt Anacondas. It's why it's a huge deal when they announce anything different, and when S&W, Ruger, Taurus, etc do it barely makes the gun news.

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