Budnjax
Absent Comrade
while Colt is getting ready to go bankrupt......
I have owned and sold many, many Pythons over the years and IMHO the Big Snake is one of the biggest stroke jobs ever put out. While it's true than many early Pythons were beautifully finished I would prefer any K or L frame S&W with a high quality blue job over most any Python I've ever seen. Pythons were only for folks with quite big hands as the distance between the backstrap and the trigger is too long for most shooters; the cylinder hands were quite prone to wear out quickly (causing timing problems) and quality control on Pythons made after the early 1970s was quite spotty. The last Python I personally bought new was a 6 inch nickel in 1980. This gun out of the box had the front of the cylinder contacting the rear of the barrel, it had to be retimed after about 2500 rounds of lead wadcutters and the cylinders were bored so small that the empty wadcutter cases had to be beaten out of the cylinder with a wooden dowel and hammer.....so much for this being a hand-fitted gun. Give me a S&W any day all day long over a Python....
I have owned and sold many, many Pythons over the years and IMHO the Big Snake is one of the biggest stroke jobs ever put out. While it's true than many early Pythons were beautifully finished I would prefer any K or L frame S&W with a high quality blue job over most any Python I've ever seen. Pythons were only for folks with quite big hands as the distance between the backstrap and the trigger is too long for most shooters; the cylinder hands were quite prone to wear out quickly (causing timing problems) and quality control on Pythons made after the early 1970s was quite spotty. The last Python I personally bought new was a 6 inch nickel in 1980. This gun out of the box had the front of the cylinder contacting the rear of the barrel, it had to be retimed after about 2500 rounds of lead wadcutters and the cylinders were bored so small that the empty wadcutter cases had to be beaten out of the cylinder with a wooden dowel and hammer.....so much for this being a hand-fitted gun. Give me a S&W any day all day long over a Python....