Poper
Member
Yup. Santa was great this year! Brought me a new Colt Python and a Walther P22.
The Walther has been trouble free through 300 rounds with a single failure to feed that was a mis-loaded magazine issue. Once cleared, no additional issues. It does need to be fed high velocity fodder as it has a tendency to choke/stove-pipe on some of the cheaper standard velocity stuff. For a less than $300 pistol, I really can't complain. A vertical adjustment for the sights would be nice as it shoots about 3" low at 11 yards, but I have been able to live with it as is.
The Python, on the otherhand, fired two cylinders and then would not unlock the cylinder after it was closed empty. Back to Colt - CZ it goes. Also, the detent in the windage adjustment for the rear sight appears to not be present as there is no tension on the windage screw at all and the rear sight blade is loose. It's almost as though QC didn't even look at it. Off she goes tomorrow!
This is my second new Colt revolver, the first being a King Cobra, and both have had to go back to Colt for issues that could easily have been (and SHOULD have been (IMHO)) caught by QC. Kinda makes me reconsider my quest for an Anaconda....
The Walther has been trouble free through 300 rounds with a single failure to feed that was a mis-loaded magazine issue. Once cleared, no additional issues. It does need to be fed high velocity fodder as it has a tendency to choke/stove-pipe on some of the cheaper standard velocity stuff. For a less than $300 pistol, I really can't complain. A vertical adjustment for the sights would be nice as it shoots about 3" low at 11 yards, but I have been able to live with it as is.
The Python, on the otherhand, fired two cylinders and then would not unlock the cylinder after it was closed empty. Back to Colt - CZ it goes. Also, the detent in the windage adjustment for the rear sight appears to not be present as there is no tension on the windage screw at all and the rear sight blade is loose. It's almost as though QC didn't even look at it. Off she goes tomorrow!
This is my second new Colt revolver, the first being a King Cobra, and both have had to go back to Colt for issues that could easily have been (and SHOULD have been (IMHO)) caught by QC. Kinda makes me reconsider my quest for an Anaconda....