Tom K
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The new 2020 Python has a VR code on the side of it. Supposedly you can install an app on your smartphone, scan the code and get information. Who likes it and who doesn't?
2020 Python VR code - yes or no?
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They should’ve put that and the serial number in a more inconspicuous place.
The future is here. Why argue with it?
I’m wondering what it reads on the Python?
I tried maximizing the image and scanning it with my phone, but resolution must be too low. I’ve read people saying it can bring up user manuals and parts lists, videos, image galleries, etc. etc.
I know personally on my Ruger PC9 carbine the code brings up nothing but the serial number... which is engraved two inches away next to the QR code. So in that case, it appears to be useless for the consumer. I’ve been reading that these are added on new guns to save production and repair time as employees at the factory can just scan the code like the checkers at Wal-Mart instead of laboriously entering in the serial number one digit at a time.
Not sure how I feel personally. After I scanned my own gun (Ruger) and it came out to be nothing, I hope the Python one at least will link up with a manual or something. Otherwise count me in the eyesore bunch.
As is, these codes aren’t going anywhere on new firearm. Most companies are starting to use them. Thankfully the one on the new Python is pretty small.
I tried maximizing the image and scanning it with my phone, but resolution must be too low. I’ve read people saying it can bring up user manuals and parts lists, videos, image galleries, etc. etc.
I know personally on my Ruger PC9 carbine the code brings up nothing but the serial number... which is engraved two inches away next to the QR code. So in that case, it appears to be useless for the consumer. I’ve been reading that these are added on new guns to save production and repair time as employees at the factory can just scan the code like the checkers at Wal-Mart instead of laboriously entering in the serial number one digit at a time.
Not sure how I feel personally. After I scanned my own gun (Ruger) and it came out to be nothing, I hope the Python one at least will link up with a manual or something. Otherwise count me in the eyesore bunch.
As is, these codes aren’t going anywhere on new firearm. Most companies are starting to use them. Thankfully the one on the new Python is pretty small.
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If it told you the date of manufacture, gun forums would see a huge drop in future posts.
Question. What other information is embedded in that QR code?
Grayfox
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When they're large and stick out like a sore thumb, I hate 'em. 
But the pics I've seen of the new Pythons show it to be small, inconspicuous and it blends in pretty well. So I just don't care.
But the pics I've seen of the new Pythons show it to be small, inconspicuous and it blends in pretty well. So I just don't care.
stansdds
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I'd prefer it to have a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.
I’d prefer not to have it but not a deal breaker for me.
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When you scan the code, you’re automatically entered into a secret gun registration database. 
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Actually, if I get the New Shootable Reintroduced Colt Python (NSRCP)
357Mag, I'm going to take a Sharpie and blacken in the QR code.
That will start a lot of conversions at the Gun Range. The Millennials
there will get a Kick out of it, scanning the QR with their new
fangled walkie talkies distractors.
Not a Deal Breaker for me, I just want to shoot.
Actually, if I get the New Shootable Reintroduced Colt Python (NSRCP)
357Mag, I'm going to take a Sharpie and blacken in the QR code.
That will start a lot of conversions at the Gun Range. The Millennials
there will get a Kick out of it, scanning the QR with their new
fangled walkie talkies distractors.
Not a Deal Breaker for me, I just want to shoot.
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Mehh, could be a lot worse...
When they're large and stick out like a sore thumb, I hate 'em.
But the pics I've seen of the new Pythons show it to be small, inconspicuous and it blends in pretty well. So I just don't care.
It does not look as bad as I thought it would. The Smith&Wesson lock is more of an eyesore.
JJEH
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You are right, the future is here and I don't like it.
At least it’s nothing mechanical that can interfere with the operation of the gun. They should have put it under the grips of inside the side plate. No one wants to see that garbage on the side of a Python.
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There's one of the side of my Cobra...
The only information on it is the S/N. I suppose it would be faster/easier for service techs to just scan it rather than enter it manually.
As for anyone else, the S/N is right there anyway.
After the first ten minutes or so I stopped noticing it.
The only information on it is the S/N. I suppose it would be faster/easier for service techs to just scan it rather than enter it manually.
As for anyone else, the S/N is right there anyway.
After the first ten minutes or so I stopped noticing it.
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Do you go to jail for grinding it off?
You could put a small Hello Kitty sticker over it.
You could put a small Hello Kitty sticker over it.
at least it doesn't have a half paragraph of safety warnings telling you to read the manual scrolled onto the barrel.
RonPagan
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I'm just glad they didn't warn us about it being able to fire with the magazine removed...
Its ugly, should have hidden it under the crane. What were they thinking? Although its equally ugly as the key lock so we'll call it a draw.
Its ugly, should have hidden it under the crane. What were they thinking? Although its equally ugly as the key lock so we'll call it a draw.
I'd prefer it to have a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Good one!
Faulkner
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My new Marlin .30-30 has one, no big deal. It's a whole lot better than that big ole ugly JM barrel marking on the old Marlins.
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The presence or absence of the QR-thingie is a great example of ... a moot point. It's small and reasonably inconspicuous. I hope to get one - after selling a coupla old-timers, and I will be much more concerned about fit and finish (which look great on the samples I've seen) and the action. So, it'll have a squiggly on it ... so what!
Edited to add: Someone mentioned ease of tracking and inventorying; many, many moons ago I was a HQ company commander in Korea (EUSA) with 2000+ M-16s. Anyone here remember doing the monthly serial number inventories?? Very painful doing them manually
. Understand Pythons will prolly never be inventoried in an Army arms room – but I don’t have a problem with the small marking and the concept is great.
Edited to add: Someone mentioned ease of tracking and inventorying; many, many moons ago I was a HQ company commander in Korea (EUSA) with 2000+ M-16s. Anyone here remember doing the monthly serial number inventories?? Very painful doing them manually
. Understand Pythons will prolly never be inventoried in an Army arms room – but I don’t have a problem with the small marking and the concept is great.
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I honestly don't care at all. New SIGs and Walthers have QR codes on the frame as well, but it doesn't matter to me because it does nothing to diminish the aesthetics in my opinion.
This honestly seems like one of those non-issues that self-interested RARE VINTAGE PYTHON sellers on Gunbroker would push in a desperate attempt to convince people that their RARE VINTAGE PYTHON is worth the $3000+ they're changing for it.
This honestly seems like one of those non-issues that self-interested RARE VINTAGE PYTHON sellers on Gunbroker would push in a desperate attempt to convince people that their RARE VINTAGE PYTHON is worth the $3000+ they're changing for it.
I'm wondering if it can be polished off the SS version without marring the gun?
Texas Star
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I'm deeply suspicious of anything that could let the govt. track guns. I don't want electronics on mine.
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California models of the Python will not have the VR code stamped on the side. Instead, the VR code will be microengraved on the tip of the firing pin, making it nearly invisible. If you want to read the code, just fire a shot, remove the shell, and run your cell camera past the primer. Just another idea for improving gun esthetics from the fertile minds of the California State Legislature.
