Colt Python

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Well, 10 years ago was the beginning of the Great Recession. I (like many others) lost my job -twice- and had to feed my kids.
Guns I sold to get by:
Factory nickel Colt 1908 pocket hammerless
Factory nickel BHP
Factory nickel Beretta 92s
Factory nickel S &W model 19
Colt 1903 vest pocket
S &W 681
5" Colt Police Positive
5" Colt Official Police
2x Mini 30, one stainless, one blued
Eddystone M1917
Maadi AK47
Norinco NHM91
Iver Johnson Target Sealed 8
Polish WZ48 .22 Mosin
German SIG P220
P239
P232, probably some others I can't remember.....
But the family didn't go hungry.
 
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How does it feel to flush $2000 down the toilet?

That's pretty much what you did! :)

But how could you have known?? That is the great bugaboo. No harm, no foul.
 
I agree. My brother bought a 1957 Plymouth convertible back in the late 1960's for like $200 or something. My other brother paid $60 for a '55 Chevy 2 door. Both the cars were sold in short order for no gain. They'd be worth a lot today, but my brothers needed to buy better cars that would be more reliable. They didn't have the luxury of keeping them as investments. I remember seeing ads for old mandolins selling for $70,000 and I thought, "well, they won't get any higher than that." But they did...up to $200,000. Who woulda guessed that? I sure didn't .
 
I had to sell the first rifle my Dad gave to me, his old Savage 99 Featherweight in .308. He bought it new way back when, and he gave it to me when I turned 18.

I was between jobs, 22 years old, and needed to pay rent and put gas in the car to keep looking for work. I wasn't about to go begging Mom or Dad for money, I was out on my own living on the far North Coast of California and determined to make it work.

I am 50 now, and that sale still hurts me...but I had no choice and (thankfully!!) my Dad understood when I told him decades ago why I didn't have it anymore.

I feel your pain! No one want to let an heirloom, or even a nice gun we like, go when we would rather keep them for ourselves or our kids. But when times are tough you can't chew on a Colt (or Savage) for very long, and when sitting in your closet one certainly won't keep you warm and out of the rain...
 
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Well, I swapped mine off for a Colt Single Action Army that had some sentimental value to me. Replaced it with a S&W Model 586 and never have wished I had the Python back. My opinion is the Model 586 is the best DA .357 Magnumto come down the pike.
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Is that a 6 or 7 shot, nickel, blue, stainless, and what barrel length ?

I'm still looking for my Model 66 , but a 7 shot sounds enticing to me.
 
I've seen people dump more cash on one spin on a roulette table and loose, at least you got something out of it.

Before folks tell you what a dummy you are, maybe we should know what you paid for it in the first place and how much use and/or enjoyment you got out of it.

Then they can tell you about the RV, boat or car they bought and kept for 10 years before it lost 80% in value as it sat unused, or maybe they invested in something "solid" like Lehman Brothers, AIG, Washington Mutual or Bernard L. Madoff Investment securities LLC, stocks...

You bought it, you sold it. Hind sight is always 20/20. As long as you didn't sell it so you could keep the Ford Pinto, for when they make a comeback, you should be OK.
 
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I know your pain as I did that many years ago as well. One by one I sold off my guns to pay the rent, put food on the table, and keep the car running. Some times I sold them at a loss but I always felt that I had the best of both worlds in that while I enjoyed having them and using them, they were a quick and ready source of cash should I need to sell them. Eventually I found a job that allowed me some extra funds to buy new guns and rebuild my collection. It's been a long haul and nowadays I enjoy very much what I have.
 
Yeah, gone are the days you can buy an as-new Python for $450 or $500. I've owned them, shot them, and sold them. Like Colt Diamondbacks, they tended to be easy to sell at shows and so forth and I bought them for trading fodder when I saw a good price. My original Python from the 70's got sold for $600. That particular day I thought I'd take it to a show and really wasn't prepared to sell it. (Unlike many, I really never cared a lot for the revolver as compared to others I owned and seldom shot it.) I had pachmayr grips on it at the time and didn't have the original stocks with me.... normally if I was intent on selling, I'd have had at least the original stocks with me. The box was gone. I saw some stuff I was interested in and sold it. The money got "re-invested" almost immediately. I don't really like to look back from the money point of view. I bought, shot, and sold a lot of interesting stuff. Don't regret selling it that day and would do it again given the same circumstances. The good part I guess is I still have the original stocks lying around in my gun stuff accumulation and they're worth almost as much as I paid for the gun new.
 
I bought a pair of them from my Dad for $600, a 4" and a 2 1/2" when his PD, (St. Paul, MN) were the first big PD to go to the Glock. The SPPD Armorer had done excellent trigger jobs on both. I traded the 4" for a Ruger Redhawk 7 1/2" stainless to hunt with, kept the Snub for several years, but I had a water bill to pay, and an infant son, so reluctantly, I had to sell it. It killed me to see one at the local Cabela's Gun Library recently for $6000!
 
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I made the big mistake in the gun trading business at 20 , in 1966 when I sold a Sharps Civil war Carbine with coffee grinder in the stock I bought in a general store in New Hampshire for $100 5 years before (I knew they were very rare) for enough to feed my pregnant GF and I for a couple months in Colorado after losing my job because they got word I was not deferred from draft , and she needed to go home when I turned myself in at Denver. Think I got $500 and they are now worth $100000 .
 
I regret turning down a NIB blue 8" that was offered to me for 400 bucks in 1996 or so. My house payment was not much more than that. It seemed like a huge sum of money for a gun that I considered not much more than a novelty at the time. The same guy had a NIB 6" also. I wanted that one for $400 because I thought it appeared more useful. He must have felt the same because he wanted to keep the 6" and ditch the 8".
 
Gun Master said:
Is that a 6 or 7 shot, nickel, blue, stainless, and what barrel length ?

I'm still looking for my Model 66 , but a 7 shot sounds enticing to me.
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Here is my pair, both six shot as God intended:

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I removed the red insert in the front sight on the 6" gun, but left it on the 4". Sort of useless anyway.

Incidentally, as to those stocks on the 6" gun, I bought them before buying the gun. Some body bought a K-Framed .22 that these stocks were on, then put Pachmayr's on and left the stocks at the store. I gave $10 for the stocks and bought the 586 a little later.


Bob Wright
 
I've owned three Pythons and still have one of the 6" blued ones. Considering what I paid for it in the 1970s, I'm walking in tall cotton regardless what the price falls to; can you believe just a little north of $200 new from the LGS?
 
Hanshi said:
I've owned three Pythons and still have one of the 6" blued ones. Considering what I paid for it in the 1970s, I'm walking in tall cotton regardless what the price falls to; can you believe just a little north of $200 new from the LGS?
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That's funny. I think I paid about $400 for the 6" I owned from that period. I rushed that purchase as this was during the high inflation Jimmy Carter period and Colt was raising prices about every two months then. That was also the time of the first gas lines for a shortage that did not exist.
 
I sold an 8” for $1700 last year, and I sold a 6” for $2000 several months ago. They’re even without the original box.

For me, the novelty wore off. When I was just getting into revolvers just a few years ago, I liked the trigger action. As I became more experienced with revolvers, I preferred my S&W revolvers over the Colt. I did very well with the sale.

They’re nice, but they’re not that nice.
 
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