Hindsight is 20/20

[fat tom]

This is just another GB auction that makes my past decisions seem awfully foolish. I'm not sure exactly how long ago it was,maybe 20 years or more,but I passed up an opportunity to buy one of these for what seemed at the time to be a stretch of my wallet. The price then was $1,200. The price now.......

Colt Python Snake Eyes Set NIB with Display Case : Revolvers at GunBroker.com

f.t.

 

[Iggy]

Some people got more mon..... Nah, never mind..

 

[44wheelman]

I had a bright stainless python that I sold in 1994 for $585 (which is what I paid a year earlier not including tax). Just because my $265 Dan Wesson would shoot half the group size at 25 yds. Now, it would be a $2400 gun. I

 

[crsides]

If you are like me, you would have sold them when they hit $1800

Charlie

 

[jack the toad]

I'm not a hater and I've said this before but the only reason I wish I had the colt DA's I've sold, is to sell them again at today's prices and buy more Smiths.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Kinda like the 952-2 that was "way to high" at around 3 grand a while back.

 

[chud333]

I still don't get it with these guns...
Never will i guess.
For a pair of revolvers made in 1989 ??
18K plus ??

Chuck

 

[jack the toad]

That same seller has some nice guns (mostly colts) listed. I wonder what the NIB 3.5" 27-2 will bring?

 

[fat tom]

If you are like me, you would have sold them when they hit $1800

Charlie

You have a point Charlie,but I do still like those Python snubs.
f.t.

 

[fat tom]

That same seller has some nice guns (mostly colts) listed. I wonder what the NIB 3.5" 27-2 will bring?

Not to mention the consecutive 4" and 6" Boas! Reg mags will seem cheap compared to what they will bring.
f.t.

 

[rattlesnakedaddy]

As others have said, the only reason I would wish to have one, would be to sell. I thought $800 for a standard 4" Python was too much money 10 years ago, and am still amazed at the premiums they are getting. Though, that's why I'm not a investor.

I've seen it in the automotive world as well.

RSD

 

[andyo5]

The only reason that prices have gone so high is the fact that they are no longer available. I have read that another company is bringing out a Python replica. If they are well made, I think the value of Colt Pythons will drop.

 

[boykinlp]

Bobby, it is worse than you thought! Around a year ago a flawless set with the original cardboard shipping box came up for auction and did not reach the reserve at $37,000! I don't know if they ever sold.

We need to build a time machine!

 

[Jessie]

Just think of how many Det. Specials that would buy still.
Now, IMO, that's one of Colts better wheel guns.
After the SAA's, that is.

 

[Jagrmaister]

I've thought about buying a Python more than once. Even held a few examples and could have been into a decent blued 4" one last year for about $1400 total with a trade that I was "up" on. I passed because it was revolver only, no box, and not MINT. I just can't get over spending that money when there's just-as-well-built 686's to be had for much more reasonable fees. The Pythons are nice, but with difficult to find spare parts, known to go out of time, and a today's market price of $2k+ for models/condition I'd be interested in owning...it just doesn't add up to me. I will say, that a gun I got all too good a deal on, and the only one I sold off for something new and shiny and absolutely regret was a Colt Officer's Model. It was a reblue, but I still wish I had kept it.

Without Walking Dead, would anyone even care?

 

[Ranger514]

It's too early to start drinking, and if I start thinking about the guns I sold or traded for a fraction of today's value, I'll want to get drunk.