New Colt Python for January 2020?
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UncleEd
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Sig,
When I saw the stainless picture on this thread
I thought, and dismissed what I saw, a turn line
on the cylinder, unusual for a Python or a SAA
for that matter when it is perfectly timed.
Now seeing the bluish version, again a turn line
BUT I don't think it is. It may be a scoring on
the cylinder purposely put there.
I've seen this on a Grant Cunningham gun, a
Ruger, and I believe it is to help the timing and
smooth up the DA pull.
If what I think I saw, or did I see it, and I wonder
if I saw it, then Colt has definitely re-engineered
to an certain extent the Python.
Price and any new engineering will determine how
popular the NEW Python is, or maybe it should be
called the Python Classic.
When I saw the stainless picture on this thread
I thought, and dismissed what I saw, a turn line
on the cylinder, unusual for a Python or a SAA
for that matter when it is perfectly timed.
Now seeing the bluish version, again a turn line
BUT I don't think it is. It may be a scoring on
the cylinder purposely put there.
I've seen this on a Grant Cunningham gun, a
Ruger, and I believe it is to help the timing and
smooth up the DA pull.
If what I think I saw, or did I see it, and I wonder
if I saw it, then Colt has definitely re-engineered
to an certain extent the Python.
Price and any new engineering will determine how
popular the NEW Python is, or maybe it should be
called the Python Classic.
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"Leaked"??? LOL! If Colt really is going to start building Pythons again, why the coy and bashful act? Why aren't they announcing it far and wide?
A post from Marlinowners last August...
"We just started today, cutting the forging dies for the new Colt Pythons. Should be about 2 weeks when we start forging the frames. The steel is going to be 17-4PH stainless, VERY tough stuff."
"We just started today, cutting the forging dies for the new Colt Pythons. Should be about 2 weeks when we start forging the frames. The steel is going to be 17-4PH stainless, VERY tough stuff."
sigp220.45
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I suspect they are waiting for the SHOT show in 3 weeks and a cover picture on every gun magazine.
Do you think its a hoax?
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I suspect you are 99% correct. Trouble is targeting "hard core" Colt's purists. I don't think there are enough to rescue them from yet another fiscal hole they have engineered for the company. $1,000; $1295? Maybe be real competition for a very limited market ($800-$1K Rugers, $1K-$1600 SW's). $2400 to start, not happening for me. Joe
And as long you don't shoot them over 2-3 times they'll stay in time ya.
I have thousands of rounds through my 1979 Python that I bought new. It's tight as a drum and perfectly in time, even when cocked glacier slow. There are no absolutes, and I never trust statements that indicate absolutes, like all Pythons, or most Pythons, go out of time.
sigp220.45
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I shoot mine quite often. Still in time.
I don't know; I was asking why Colt would try to keep it secret rather than announcing it.
Well, it does look a lot like a Python, but not exactly like a classic Python.
My son sent phone pics. Looks just like the old ones except with dark laminated grips.
I hope Colt introduces 3 new revolvers this year and Taurus and Ruger and Webley and anyone else who will. I like revolvers and competition breeds excellence....................
bmcgilvray
Member
The '78 vintage Python here has remained in time.
Now, that's what we need; a new Webley revolver. I could go for that.
Now, that's what we need; a new Webley revolver. I could go for that.
HOUSTON RICK
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I know that a Colt will maintain a higher "resale value" but my guns are not inventory. Does a Colt put a 357 round downrange any better than an S&W? Does a Colt improve the terminal velocity of a 357 round? Will a maintained Colt be operating after the equivalent maintained S&W no longer functions? This hobby is very much about everyone getting what they like, but, given the pricing differential, I am glad that I like S&Ws.
here is a bigger leaked picture, not the same frame as an original Python, the hammer looks shorter and I am willing to bet most of the internals will be MIM. Oh, and that isn't a "Royal Blue" finish either, if Colt offers that again, it might be a while.
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Protocall_Design
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I have owned 4 original Pythons, 2 Troopers and 1 Detective Special back when they were being made. I can also work on them, so very familiar with the internal lockworks. I think the Python is the best looking revolver ever made. None of my Pythons would hold up to being used for competition. Back then, I was shooting around 30,000 .38 Specials and 3000 or so .357 Mag. per season.
The M19 I had then ran fine for 3 years of that diet. The forcing cone on that one never cracked (pretty amazing). The Pythons at their best never had as good an action as any of my S&W guns, all with action jobs. Out of the box, the Python actions were better than S&W actions for smoothness and lightness (2 different things). The Trooper actions were heavy and clunky. The D/S was the best of the lot, wish I still had it.
I shot M10s built into PPC guns a lot, their forcing cones always cracked between 50,000 and 100,000 rounds of bunny fart wadcutters. Once the L frames came on the scene, I switched over to them and never looked back. The 586 and 686 have served me very well for many years.
Pythons are cool guns to look at, but S&W ones are better for shooting a lot.
The M19 I had then ran fine for 3 years of that diet. The forcing cone on that one never cracked (pretty amazing). The Pythons at their best never had as good an action as any of my S&W guns, all with action jobs. Out of the box, the Python actions were better than S&W actions for smoothness and lightness (2 different things). The Trooper actions were heavy and clunky. The D/S was the best of the lot, wish I still had it.
I shot M10s built into PPC guns a lot, their forcing cones always cracked between 50,000 and 100,000 rounds of bunny fart wadcutters. Once the L frames came on the scene, I switched over to them and never looked back. The 586 and 686 have served me very well for many years.
Pythons are cool guns to look at, but S&W ones are better for shooting a lot.
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