Colt Python

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I paid about $800 for a 6-inch stainless Python about 15 years ago or so... not planning on selling it any time soon, but if I did, I'd say I'd get more than a fair return for the investment...
 
One sale I regret immensely is that of a 4" Blue Python.
I don't know what I was thinking at the time but it was the early 90's and I made plenty of bad decisions.
It was my favorite revolver, I liked it more than my S&W M 57.
Some day if the Karma's right it will return..........
 
I had the opportunity to buy one for a decent price a year ago, I was so worked up and excited, took it to the rage and what a thrill it was to shoot it ( for the first 12 rounds anyway) then it wore off and I realized how much I spent on a 357. Sold it on auction a week later (I couldn't believe what it brought). I paid the rent for the month and had enough left over to buy a FNH 45 Tactical. If I see it sold in 20 years for $10,000.00 I wouldn't feel bad, I'd think who would pay that for a python? Doubt they'll go higher in price, especially with all the fake boxes and papers going around on auction sites.

Every time I see a python I think of Twinkies, my brother bought a box at a grocery store ( for $5.00) not knowing they were discontinued, walking out a man offered him $200 for the box. He took the $200 then seen they were going for much more on ebay..... We sat down and laughed about it. Its crazy what people would pay for something thats no longer in production. Then make them out to be some mystical legendary item to those who don't have it.

They're nice but not that nice, repairs and parts prices are not cheap either.

just my $0.02, to each their own.
 
I've never been one to fret over selling a gun. Like someone else here, I sold off most of my collection several years ago when I lost my job, and needed to just keep a roof over my head, and food on the table. I sure didn't see any sense in trying to hold onto the steel savings account in the other room.

I've bought and sold some nice ones. Would I like to have them back? Not really. They didn't have any sentimental value to me, they were just guns. Anything I've really liked, I've always been able to buy another one, if I really wanted to. They might cost a little more money now than the last time, but they're there.
 
Hindsight's always 20/20 but forget the Python. I wish I'd bought a bunch of USFA's before the bottom fell out.
 
And how about Great Western Arms Company (GWA) ???!!!
They lived up to their name. Extremely close clone of Colt SA !
I was fortunate enough to have owned one.
That may have been too long ago for some.

There are NO genuine fortune tellers.
 
Great Westerns were good guns and are gaining some collectibility but they're not even in the same league as USFA.
 
BobWright said:
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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As I wrote in another current thread, my two friends' Pythons do NOT make me want to trade my 686 for a Python. Aside from the greater resale value of the Python, I wouldn't make a straight trade if it were offered to me. The Python is no doubt a GREAT gun, but the 586/686 is just fantastic, IMO.
 
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ColtPythonElite said:
IMO, Pythons have maxed out in price and will gradually decline and level off.
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I disagree. Since they aren't ever going to make any more of them, and most people that own them realize their value is diminished by shooting them, I believe they are just going to be collectors items and will continue to go up in value as they become harder and harder to find. Particularly those in new/mint condition. I have pretty much quit shooting my 6" Colt Diamondback .22 LR for the same reason.
 
I have been watching completed GB auctions on Colts for several years and have been seeing the prices declining already. I have a lot of Colts some of which are unfired and/or NIB. If I were looking for a profit, I would have sold a while back. I watched many of the particular guns I have sell for big money two to three years ago. Those same models are not bringing the same money now. They are still high, buy way off the mark that that had once set.

Sure, they don't make them any more, but they also don't go bad like produce. The ones people have stored away now will hit the market again sooner or later.

As far as not shooting an already shot gun to save it for the next guy...Sorry, I just don't see it....Matter of fact, I have pulled out more than one NIB old gun and said to heck with Max value and went to shooting.
 
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If you like guns, and enjoy shooting them, then shoot them.
That's why I can't follow the idea of "safe queens".
Shooting a good NIB gun makes a lot of sense to me.

If you want to pass something down to your children, grandchildren, etc., put money in the bank, in a trust, or will for them.
 
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