Anyone have the new Python?

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Since new Python hit the market, everybody is bragging about it, praising its quality, and especially trigger, but despite inquiring about accuracy on this forum and few others, no info about that. In the mean time, until we have first hand experience, here are few articles from internet:

Colt Python Review: Full Review of the Reintroduced Iconic Revolver

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https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/colt-python-review/375565

New Colt Python Accuracy Testing Part 1

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38 Special full wad cutter.


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The Double Tap 200 gr hardcast 357 magnum load.

http://looserounds.com/2020/08/10/new-colt-python-accuracy-testing-part-1/

The only thing I would like to see is tests done on Ransom Rest. IMO, going this way, human factor will be eliminated, and using all chambers at least 3 times, revolver will show its true quality.
 
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With what a new GP 100, Blackhawk, 686 or Kimber K6 go for, $1,500 is looking quite reasonable for a new production Python. I was near Ocala, FL during thanksgiving and the local gun shop/shooting range had both the 4" and 6" in stock for slightly under MSRP. I am still debating between getting a Python or Anaconda.

Also, debating if I want a new 357, do I get the K6 combat or the Python. Decisions, decisions.
 
I just got my new 6" a week ago and it's a really gorgeous well made revolver but it's going to make me have to purchase a trigger pull gauge/scale as I could get flamed for saying I think it has a (*relatively speaking to the hype only*) fairly heavy trigger pull in both SA and DA. That said, the action is in fact "buttery smooth" as the hype and most all owners claim. But, it's oddly heavy with (slight mind you) creep/stacking. The most noticeable heaviness is in the SA pull. Oddly after the trigger hits the wall you can visually see and feel it moving the hammer back another .030" or so and then it breaks.
Now without said gauge, I can only subjectively compare to my other SA/DA revolvers (box stock actions) with three being S&W .357s and .44 and one (CZ) Dan Wesson 715 which is very comparable to my new (CZ) Colt Python. So as mentioned this is only my 'opinion based on my experiences and subjective perception' of my other nice quality revolvers. It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) that 'my other' Taurus, Charter Arms, etc., revolvers are in a worse class of trigger weight and grungy overall actions don't even compare in this comparison.
So, as I was saying the SA pull weight of all my other four SA/DAs are way perceptibly to just barely lighter in pull than the Python, and the DA pull of all but my SW 629 is perceptibly lighter. It's weird as the smoothness of the Python's action is very smooth, and only the DW 715 comes close to that, but the weight of the (newer "L" version) Python at least my particular unit is noticeably heavier than what I've heard and read in most places.
This is in no way my bashing it, as I waited mostly patiently for nearly 2 years to get it and I'm really happy to have it. It actually doesn't even bother me a little bit but if folks ask how you like it?, how does it compare to this or that?, Hows the trigger, action, etc., I'm only sharing my early experience with it so far. Then like one other member on here, Old Dog I think said, 'I didn't get it to shoot it SA' or the like, and I agree with that as I didn't either. Merely saying for the hype and cost, it seems like the trigger pull could have been better. Ymmv of course.
 
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