I have collected three over the years Two blue a 4" and a 6". And I had a electroless nickel 4" with rubber colt grips I picked it up last year. The story was it was bought new and the owner said it went out of time and he sent it back to colt and the custom shop tuned it and returned to him and he passed away. I bought it for 975. One of my shooting pals bugged the hell out of me for the blue 4" and I offered him the nickel for 1300. He owns it now, and he don't bug me about a python anymore. They are nice guns but they are mechanically fussy. I can work on my Smiths but I would hesitate to put any tools to my Pythons. I love revolvers the more the better,