[firestar]

Saw one of the newer SS Pythons at the gunshop today.:rolleyes: Who in there right mind would pay this much money for a movie gun? It had a high polish that would look like crap after one shooting and cleaning session. The finish was O.K. but not $1200 worth.

Oh, well. Somebody will buy it, just not me. I could get a nice used S&W 586, 686, 19, and a 27. for that price! And everyone of them would shoot just as well.

[9mmepiphany]

it is hard to say why folks will part with that much money when a tarus will do the same things...but then folks pay alot for mercedes and porsches too. i guess they are not for just everybody.

rolling the trigger back on a properly tuned python and watching the holes cover each other on the target gives the same satisfaction as diving into a corner with a 911 without having to lift off the gas and then powering out without tire squeal

[bountyhunter]

Saw a Browning Hp locally reworked by the C+S shop with a price tag of $2000. Since then, nothing surprises me.

[9mmepiphany]

i'd much rather have the $1100 python then a $2000 p-35

[DeltaElite]

I agree $1100 is a bit extreme, but thinking that a Taurus can do the same as a Python is hilarious. :D

[9mmepiphany]

that's why they call it "tongue in cheek" :neener:

[firestar]

I'm surprised nobody got mad at my "Movie Gun" statement.:neener:

I guess I am a cheapskate. The most I ever paid for a handgun was about $750. I like to get deals and more than my money's worth when I buy a gun. That Python looked like a lot less than my money's worth. Keep in mind this was a newer one and that finish was not perfect. Quality has gone down on these.:barf: I have seen $300-500 S&Ws with better finishes.

[Standing Wolf]

I looked at a used stainless four-inch Python today with a $789 price tag. The action was tight. The single action pull was about four to four and a half pounds, which is two pounds heavier than I liked. The finish was okay: certainly not new, but not trashed. The bore and forcing cone were okay, although the latter would need to be polished. The cylinder bores were horrendously leaded.

I offered $700. The guy behind the counter turned me down cold.

I like Pythons a lot, but they're overpriced. This would have been a good one with another $500 to $1,000 worth of work—but that's more than I'm willing to spend on a stainless gun.

[DeltaElite]

9mmepiphany,
Dohhhhhhh, I missed that one competely. :D

[EJ]

It's worth half of that not a penny more--

[9mmepiphany]

if you'd like a perfect python but are unhappy with the quality of the current workmanship, you could...

get a beater, at a beater's price, with heavy holster wear but tight action and have it refinished. i'd shoot it first to make sure that it would put the bullets where i wanted them.

then send it off to have it first deep cleaned and "trued" (all flats flat, all edges sharp, all corners squarded, serrations evened, checkering repointed), then polished and reblued. then it would be off to fishpaw for some french walnut grips. the result would be stunning...but likely not less expensive then a new one, but MUCH more gun.

i once saw this done to a $50 smith m-10 and it truely is amazing how different a "trued" gun looks

[Standing Wolf]

get a beater, at a beater's price, with heavy holster wear but tight action and have it refinished.

Yeah, but even the beaters are going for $600 and more these days. Sad!

[Angus MacDuff]

Doesn't Smith and Wesson have some part of the manugacturing process of the Python now? I heard a rumour that S&W might be making the frames for Colt and then the Colt custom shop completes the revolver. ANy truth to this?

[9mmepiphany]

standing wolf - i'm stunned...the last one i picked up, at a local gunshop, had been a security guard's duty weapon. there was blue missing from the barrel and cylinder. it went home with me for >$400

[MiniZ]

I think the price of new a new Python is ridiculous-however, there are buyers for them....

I bought what could be considered a "beater" Python for $450.00. The action is tight, but the nickle plating is severely scratched, and there is one gouge in the plating on the barrel where it was apparently dropped.

I buy them to shoot them, so the cosmetics were little concern to me...

[dfariswheel]

Angus MacDuff:

Not just NO, but HELL NO!!!!!

Mr Colt doesn't speak to Mr Smith or Mr Wesson.
Mr's S and W don't communicate with Mr Colt.

In fact, Colt has always made their revolvers pretty much 100% in-plant, with only a few a few small parts like springs farmed out.

This business about Colt not making their own guns really got started with the "second Gen" blackpowder revolvers that had the raw parts built in Italy by Uberti, and finished and assembled at the Hartford plant.
This led to people saying Colt had their Single Action Army's built by Uberti.

Since then, rumor has every Colt gun made in Italy, China, S&W, Kimber, and by Santa Claus's Elves.

True, over the years Colt had other guns made overseas but never their 1911 autos, or revolvers.