Colt Python Price

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No, you aren't crazy.

The Colt Python is dead as a defensive or service revolver. It's just too expensive for that roll. Even abused, worn out examples go for $1500+ these days. In a few years, the blued N-frame S&Ws will be in the same boat. Just too valuable to serve or even shoot, they are collector's revolvers these days.
 
Yes, $3500 for a Python rated at 70-75% is crazy. Not sure why someone would be willing to pay that much when there are PLENTY of examples that are 90%+ for less on Gunbroker.
 
I am waiting till I need it in retirement, maybe 6 or 7 years from now for this unfired 8" Nickle . I was thinking $3500 today :D
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I was thinking of these loads 10 years ago and decided NOT to fire it. :uhoh:

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I did sell my Python Hunter 6" in Halliburton case with factory mounted Leupold 2x scope and ugly Rubber Colt Pachys. The gun was about 80% which is well used by me. I got $2000 at local gun store ($2400 sell price) 2 years ago.:) I paid $800 in l mid 80s for it and hunted it with a shoulder holster for 10 years.
 
Sure, not a Python. Pythons have gone the way of the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing and Shelby AC Cobra 427. It's no longer fiscally responsible to actually use them as intended.

Heck, I recall less than ten years ago seeing a Python for the asking price of $950 and thinking that was absurd.

But I'll take an 80% Official Police, Trooper or Army Special all day long for under $300, they still exist.
 
Colt Pythons are nice revolvers but not $3500 nice. I've owned several over the years and never liked them as well as my Smiths. Today they have fallen into the collector category because they are no longer in production. Collectors want what they can't have. The supply is short because few are for sale thus driving the prices higher. If you have the surplus cash and want something pretty to put into your gun safe, the Python may be for you but not me. I like to shoot my guns.
 
ive wanted a python or anaconda since i was a kid in the 80's, no way short of a lottery win would i or could i drop the cash they seem to be commanding...
ill just have to go with a 686 or some other full underlug gun
ive only ever seen one in a LGS in my life and it was in its own part of the case with a sign do not ask to handle unless your serious about buying it, no price tag on it either that was 2 years ago. to add theres no way i couldnt not shoot it i aint that strong lol
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Dude, that's closing fast (actually, exceeding) Mateba Autorevolver prices. A gun in lower production, equal/higher build quality, and far more marketable in the museum sense, is somehow ranking lower in price than a used, mass-produced gun that isn't terribly more 'iconic' than its contemporaries.

Two grand and below, I can understand, since the guns were nice, and there are fewer and fewer of them. But this is just stupid. Dutch tulip craze, indeed. The thrivent market of obviously counterfeit boxes/accessories that sell nonetheless really drives home the honest truth that this whole "Python craze" is being driven by dishonest grifters who've invented an image for the gun that never existed.

I'd sooner spend three grand on a new condition Manurhin MR73 Target model, and get a gun that looks as good as the S&W, is polished/blued as nice or nicer than the Colt, has a smoother trigger than either, and is probably stronger than a Ruger.

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Ever since I got the Colt Python is Half-Life 2 (a video game) and shot the enemy cyborgs with it, I wanted that gun.

Think of all the pop culture stuff related to the Python. It's in numerous popular video games, movies (Dirty Harry series etc. etc.), and now it's the new gun of choice for the main character of the extremely popular Walking Dead television series.

That stuff is driving up the cost of Colt Pythons, everybody wants one and they aren't made anymore. I still want one really bad, but I could never justify getting one because if I were to buy one... I'd want to shoot it, and the price of admition pretty much precludes that option.
 
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Yes. The difference is you can't grow a python and banks don't speculate on them as they did with tulips.

I guess I'd better unbury those cylinders from my back yard and stop waiting for them to germinate. :(

I'd be hard pressed to think that some of the rise in prices isn't due to speculation (and, from my knowledge, the vast majority of speculation during the Dutch Tulip Craze consisted of people, not banks, doing the buying). You could, of course, simply argue that the given price reflects "market conditions" or something, and it might, but it looks more like barnbwt said to me:

Dude, that's closing fast (actually, exceeding) Mateba Autorevolver prices. A gun in lower production, equal/higher build quality, and far more marketable in the museum sense, is somehow ranking lower in price than a used, mass-produced gun that isn't terribly more 'iconic' than its contemporaries.

Of course, maybe the price is just always going to increase forever...just like dot coms in the 1990s. Or real estate in the 2000s. Or the stock market right now...
 
I think the bubble will burst and the prices will fall by 50% of what they are bringing now. The mystery is when they will peak. If I knew that, I could mark on my calendar when I am gonna sell.
 
Ever since I got the Colt Python is Half-Life 2 (a video game) and shot the enemy cyborgs with it, I wanted that gun.

Think of all the pop culture stuff related to the Python. It's in numerous popular video games, movies (Dirty Harry series etc. etc.), and now it's the new gun of choice for the main character of the extremely popular Walking Dead television series.

That stuff is driving up the cost of Colt Pythons, everybody wants one and they aren't made anymore. I still want one really bad, but I could never justify getting one because if I were to buy one... I'd want to shoot it, and the price of admition pretty much precludes that option.
The main reason to NOT shoot a Python if you own one would be because it is a collector piece with box/papers and is unfired (other than at the factory for a test fire/function). If you own a Python that has already been fired, you don't decrease the value any more because you fired it a little bit more. Just maintain it properly and it's not a problem.
 
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