Nickel or Stainless Python?

[rishooter]

Nickel By Necessity

I have a nickel Python made in '78 because it was a great deal in beautiful shape when I bought it and I couldn't pass it up.I'd have preferred the Royal Blue,but didin't find one.I had once passed up a Python 3" in blue for $325 many years ago because I just couldn't afford it back then-a friend was selling it.I wasn't going to miss out twice.
BTW I shoot my nickel Python regularly,mostly with 38 +P's.
I save the mags for my N frame Smiths and GP100.
If that Python goes out of time,it'll be hard to get it fixed right.

 

[Jim Watson]

If you want a shiny shooter, get bright stainless, scratches won't rust and can be polished back out.

If you want a showpiece, get nickel. I think the warm color is just prettier.

 

[MtnSpur]

Eh, just keep the Python and enjoy it a bit more, then sell it in about a decade and you can buy your 4 Smiths...

I told my wife the Pythons get buried with me. She, of course half smiled at me (we all know what that means). Own some Smiths, kids will get em.

PabloJ:I would sell the $ython and use the money to buy two S&W Model 19s plus some ammo....or get three used Ruger 'Security Six' or 'Service Six' plus ammo instead of one Colt. When one thinks in those terms the prices asked for Sainted Pythons are actually shocking.

And if one owns a Security Six, some S&W's ? Naw, think my Pythons will stay.

 

[Old Fuff]

Colt got into making stainless handguns late in the overall picture, but eventually market demand forced them into it.

As a rule of thumb, earlier Pythons were better made then later ones. Of course there are exceptions. The reason for this is because the company's brain-dead management - that knew absolutely nothing about building guns - fired, or otherwise lost many of they're best polishers and final assemblers around the late 1960's to save money. This to say the least was a bad move.

So if I was going to buy a Python I'd look for a blued one (1st choice) or nickel (2nd choice) made during the middle 60's or earlier. If I was going to pay for a later production stainless one I'd check it over very carefully.

The Old Fuff will now retire to his underground bunker, as he can expect a drone attack (and maybe a lynch mob) made up of hard-nose Python fans.

So be it...

 

[Guillermo]

he can expect a drone attack

Not to worry Old Fuff.

Colt Kool-Aid drinkers live too much in the past to have one of them new-fangled drone-thingies.

And you are absolutely right...the wheels started coming off the bus long before the crash. The later Colts were not near the guns that the early ones were.

(If you hear knocking on the door of the bunker I will use the password "John Moses"...let me in...I will bring beer )

 

[Old Fuff]

I will bring beer

Well O.K.

This time only I won't shoot first and ask questions later...

 

[Guillermo]

This time only I won't shoot first and ask questions later

you don't have a bench grinder in the bunker...do you?

 

[Blue68f100]

I have owned this 6" nickle since 1977. It has the Colt's Custom Tuning and Adj Sights from the factory. It is one sweet shooting gun. Everyone who has ever shot my gun has fallen in love with the trigger. It's as smooth as stp on glass, SA or DA the trigger on this gun is second to none. The DA is in the 5# range.