I hate this: Python found at Pawn shop

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goon said:
My friend has a Python and while I agree that it's smooth, I don't see what's so great about them that makes them worth two or three times as a used S&W or Ruger. On top of that I've noticed that the timing on his is a little off. It's my understanding that the Colt lockwork is more complex and possibly more fragile than most competitors. Personally, I'll leave them for the collectors and stick with shooters that I can use the hell out of and afford to replace if necessary.
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I'll leave the technical details to the Colt experts but it's not an either/or for me, I enjoy my Smiths as well. If I knew my next trip to the range was my last, and I could only bring one gun, it would be my Smith 25-2.
 
I have a 1967 4" Blue bArrel Python.

Hands down, it is the best revolver I've ever shot.

Accurate is an understatement. Easily puts the bullets exactly where I aim. Recoil is nonexistent. Incredible gun.
 
I don't see what's so great about them that makes them worth two or three times as a used S&W or Ruger
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Goon,

That is why they make different guns.

Since you don't see the value I am glad you have an alternative.

Some folks love baloney, others hamburger, some pate'.
 
Guillermo said:
Goon,

That is why they make different guns.

Since you don't see the value I am glad you have an alternative.

Some folks love baloney, others hamburger, some pate'.
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Just for the record, I meant no offense to Colt lovers.
As I said, after putting some lead downrange with one I see the Python as a very finely made, smooth, and accurate weapon that's completely overpriced for 95% of revolver shooters. Nice enough, but I could have a great modern revolver and $600 worth of ammo for the same price. I leave them for the collectors (who, I'm sure, are more than happy to make up for my lack of interest).
 
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Are you saying that's all a Python is worth these days? What would you ask for your two if you sold them right now? A grand? More?
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My post is pretty clear regarding what I value a Python at these days. If I sold mine to a friend, I'd ask what I paid. If I sold them on the market, I'd place a dollar auction with a reserve set at my initial investment. They are not the end all, be all wheel gun IMO. Funny how things suddenly get better once they are discontinued.
 
Funny how things suddenly get better once they are discontinued.
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It may not always be the case that discontinued things get better; it's just that what they get replaced with may be worse, it's all relative I suppose.
 
Let's remove the price tag from the equation.

If I offered you a free revolver to keep and shoot and your choices were a Python or a 686, which one would you take?
 
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Let's remove the price tag from the equation.

If I offered you a free revolver to keep and shoot and your choices were a Python or a 686, which one would you take?
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686. The pretty blue finish and extensive hand polishing on the Python have no impact on the shootability.

If you were giving me a gun to resell I would take the Python in a heartbeat, but for shooting I'll take the one that latches on both ends.
 
i had a python years ago, im a smith & wesson man they are great looking guns! but they just dont hold up as well as the k,l and n frame smiths.
 
Fools market. The stupid gun wasn't all that good in 1980. I wouldn't pay 500 for one then, sure as hell won't pay stupid prices for one now.

Best thing about the gun is the blue. So let me get this right. Your going to pay Freedom Arms prices for a Colt?

My memories are a stacking trigger, with good accuracy in SA.
It WAS a beautiful gun.

Problem is, I can't think of a gun that's better made, DA, in the same caliber.
But you solved that for me, since you are going to trade a better gun, a 29 for the Python.

The best thing about the Python was the beauty of the blue.

Send your 29 to Jack Huntington Advanced Gunsmithing. Tell him you want a Colt Blue on your 29. You'll have a better gun, with the same, best feature of the Python. I'm not even going to go into the sintered finish on the internals on a Python.
 
Choice between Python and 686 is a coin toss for me. Balance is virtually identical and both have excellent SA triggers. I have fairly big hands so I feel a bit more comfortable with a Python but more gunsmiths are competent with S&W revolvers once you've put several rounds through the gun and it's worn enough to need some re-adjustments.
 
Well I am with Goon on this. I have a lot of friends that have various flavor 38/357 revolvers and I have had the chance to shoot a lot of them including 2 Pythons. I am also "frugal" to a fault so the price point of a snake gun is way over what I would want to spend for pure function. I own no safe queens and never plan to.:D If the firearm can't be taken out in the weather and shot hard without hurting it's value I will not bother to own it. I have a tuned S&W 686 and for that matter several other revolvers so chambered that are better shooting than any snake gun I have tried in my hands. IMHO whatever you can operate well and are accurate with is the best for you regardless of price or how much the bluing shines.
 
My son-in-law manages a Pawn Shop. He always gives me good deals if I buy something. He sold a Python a few years ago for $450. It was mint, 6" barrel, .357. I didn't even get to drool on it as he sold it on the way out of the back.

My friends and I gave him a really bad time about it so one day he called me up and had me come down and look at a King Cobra. Mint! Sold it to me for $300. I really like that boy! :)
 
A Stainless steel python, very nice now you can shoot it and not have to worry about messing up the Bluing. What did they finally sell for, box ? papers? etc?. This one has the Ultimate finish, meaning its mirror polished? I had an ultimate officers acp in stainless.
Enjoy shooting it, let your heirs worry about its collector value.
 
I think everyone wants a Python. Four incher, blued. I couldn't afford the $400 they cost "back in the day" and now they run three to four times that. I could never shoot it! A store near me has several, but they are too expensive. But worth the price, I guess. I do have a four inch, blued 586, tho. I do shoot it.
 
They are pretty. FA's are prettier, at least to my eyes. Why have a Colt for the price of a Freedom Arms?
 
l have/had Pythons for maybe 30yrs. A 2 1/2'' and 6'' live with me. My favorites.

Are they worth the money?? lt is up to the buyer. They definitely perform . lf l

want something l buy it. l just have to save a little longer for the Python. l smply

am addicted to Smith & Wesson revolvers.

There is no comparison between a Python and an L frame Smith. L frames have

always been Python wannabe's. Clunky and heavy. They dont have the balance

or graceful lines of an N frame Smith or a Python
 
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I would keep the M29 2 & load for it like the other poster said you can buy a 357 & have 2 good guns sort of getting your cake & eating it too my 2 cents worth
 
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