The new Colt revolvers don't do it for me

[.308 Norma]

Tell me about it. Changing the headlight in our Jeep Cherokee taxed me both in the wallet and the back. The bulb cost $145 and you had to turn the steering wheel to the right stop and pull the wheel well loose to reach it.

Sorry. And I thought I had it bad because the darned tire pressure alarms in my 2018 Dodge Ram are going to start going off real soon, and they won't stop bugging me until next spring!
Oh, I can make them stop alright - by adding a little air to the tires. But then we'll get a warm spell for a few days, and my tires will be overpressure until the weather turns cold again.

 

[UncleEd]

..... I thought I had it bad because the darned tire pressure alarms in my 2018 Dodge Ram are going to start going off real soon, and they won't stop bugging me until next spring!
......

So within the topic, will a new Colt Python stop the problem or must you rely once again on
a trustworthy Ruger GP100 or a classic S&W 586?

 

[Styx]

Tell me about it. Changing the headlight in our Jeep Cherokee taxed me both in the wallet and the back. The bulb cost $145 and you had to turn the steering wheel to the right stop and pull the left wheel well loose to reach it.

I hit a deer and had to change my whole turning signal assembly a few years back. I had to do the same as you, but that wasn't too bad. Mine was Jeep Patriot, but the process is the same.

Us boys born in the 1930s, 30s, 50s, 60s and 70s, maybe a few from the 80s, sure have a lot of stories about fixing our cars ourselves. I miss those times, can't fix anything on the new cars today. For me, its just pump gas, change the air filter, and drive.

I never worked on an older car, but I've fixed everything myself (so far) on several 2000+ vehicles. An 1 to 2 hour job and $50-$200 of parts will cost me $500-$1000+ if taken to the shop. That alone forced me to fix it on my own. I've changed engine covers, head gaskets, fuel pump and assemblies, water pump, thermostats, and after I finish writing this, I'm going to go out in the rain and finish replacing the busted and leaking radiator in my sister's 2012 Altima. (Quoted $1000 parts and labor at repair shop, but the radiator cost me $60 on Ebay and $15 for new coolant. Saved $900.)

I don't find modern cars hard to work on, but I reckon with all the current technology, harnesses, etc, it's just a PITA to get to anything. You have to take a dozen things out and apart just to reach and have the space to replace one simple part! Then if you're an idiot like me, you'll put it back together and real that you forgot to replace a part that you sat to the side.

/END_RANT Anyway, let me get back on topic lol

 

[dickydalton]

I just looked at a Colt King Cobra Target that I bought a year and a half ago and saw that placard on the frame. I never saw it when I bought it or anytime after. But, that may because I haven't ever shot it either. It's a lot like the Kimber K6s Target I have and they both are like my S&W Model 19s. Should I shoot it or hope that a grandchild can trade it for food in 50 years?

 

[Barmcd]

I just looked at a Colt King Cobra Target that I bought a year and a half ago and saw that placard on the frame. I never saw it when I bought it or anytime after. But, that may because I haven't ever shot it either. It's a lot like the Kimber K6s Target I have and they both are like my S&W Model 19s. Should I shoot it or hope that a grandchild can trade it for food in 50 years?

I’d shoot it. I don’t have any new revolvers except for Colt SA clones. I shoot the heck out of my older model 19, 29, and 681 S&Ws. I hope to add a few more, but not at outlandish prices.

 

[SterlingBullet]

There's QR codes on revolvers now? Ewwwwwwww! I'd sand that off.

The ugliest QR codes are on Heritage Rough Rider revolvers. The painted finish on the gun frames are poor enough without adding that square code smack dab in the middle of the gun, just lower left of the cylinder and just right of the plywood grips.

I hit a deer and had to change my whole turning signal assembly a few years back. I had to do the same as you, but that wasn't too bad. Mine was Jeep Patriot, but the process is the same.


I never worked on an older car, but I've fixed everything myself (so far) on several 2000+ vehicles. An 1 to 2 hour job and $50-$200 of parts will cost me $500-$1000+ if taken to the shop. That alone forced me to fix it on my own. I've changed engine covers, head gaskets, fuel pump and assemblies, water pump, thermostats, and after I finish writing this, I'm going to go out in the rain and finish replacing the busted and leaking radiator in my sister's 2012 Altima. (Quoted $1000 parts and labor at repair shop, but the radiator cost me $60 on Ebay and $15 for new coolant. Saved $900.)

I don't find modern cars hard to work on, but I reckon with all the current technology, harnesses, etc, it's just a PITA to get to anything. You have to take a dozen things out and apart just to reach and have the space to replace one simple part! Then if you're an idiot like me, you'll put it back together and real that you forgot to replace a part that you sat to the side.

/END_RANT Anyway, let me get back on topic lol

I know I started what seems to be a car thread; but yes, the items you fixed are closer to the repairs we did years ago. Unfortunately, mine always seem to be complicated electronics and even software bugs. The backup camera is out on the Ford Flex and the DIY fix will take a guy like me two days if I don’t mess it up.

At least with firearms, overall cleaning and removing, upgrading or fixing some components like sights, triggers, AR parts, springs, guide rods, and barrels have been fairly simple, although some are three/four handed tasks.

 

[crestoncowboy]

It appears you have been able to keep up with the technology. That is an impressive ability. Far and away above my poor talents.

Once you get the live data pulled up its no different that watching dwell meters and oscilloscopes. And rather than hook up 35 wires to get the old ones on a machine.... you plug in one.

I've always owned Chevys, in part, because my Dad and his dad before him did

exactly why I'm a Ford man and my brother is a Mopar man....because dad was a Chevy man.

The brother has been stranded exponentially more than either of us though. Lol .

As far as the QR code on the Colt revolvers or some of the roll markings on Ruger or S&W revolvers, it is what it is.

The Ruger dissertation on the barrels of their firearms is less to my liking than the QR code.

But, if the firearm is a good shooter, who cares. I'm not looking for wall ornaments.

But Bill designed all Rugers to be ugly except the single actions. So most of don't mine the book written on the barrel. Lol.

There's a few threads on the Colt forum that state they scanned the code, and the code gives the:

1. Model Number
2. Serial Number
3. Manufacture Date

If that's the case, IMHO I think it's pretty cool that all that information is listed right on the gun itself. That's more useful than lawyer talk and internal locks especially if buying used being that Colt sell blems. I'll have to scan mine when I get around to it. Now I'm intrigued.

Now ill have to try it.

Ugh, I hate UT orange. I don't care anything about football, so that probably makes it even worse. Now Hugger Orange, that was a nice one!

I had a buddy who restored old cars and made decent money trading and selling. He painted a 71 mach one Vols orange.......he lost money on that one. Sold for 14k when ANY other color or even primed it would have brought 25. NOBODY wants a vols orange Mustang. The next one he did in an ugly red and it sold in a week for more despite being a lesser car.

Sorry. And I thought I had it bad because the darned tire pressure alarms in my 2018 Dodge Ram are going to start going off real soon, and they won't stop bugging me until next spring!
Oh, I can make them stop alright - by adding a little air to the tires. But then we'll get a warm spell for a few days, and my tires will be overpressure until the weather turns cold again.

You can adjust the threshold for when the alarm is triggered and ive never seen one that triggered at anywhere near what you should be running. Assuming Half ton Usually dodge is 10 psi under the door. A lot of the newer Mopar run 55 front and 45 rear for whatever reason. Ass backward from any other truck ive seen . Either way I drive in the mountains where its 30 when I leave for work and 70 that evening and never had a tpms light come on due to the outside temp or from rolling temp.

On those gen dodge you can add air until the horn honks at the correct psi..... neat feature I suppose.

 

[.308 Norma]

Assuming Half ton Usually dodge is 10 psi under the door.

Yeah, I wish! It says "40 psi" on the door, but the alarms trigger at 37 psi. I wouldn't know how to adjust the threshold, and the tire dealer (Big O) refuses to do it for me - they said the Dodge dealer might adjust it for me, but they themselves aren't supposed to.
This winter might be better though because a couple of months ago I put new tires on my Dodge Ram 1500. They're the same ones (Michelin brand) my wife has been running on her Jeep Wrangler for a couple of years, and she has never had a problem with the tires pressure alarms going off all winter long.
Of course, I don't know what the low-pressure alarm threshold is set at on her Jeep, so maybe that's the difference. I guess we'll see in a couple of months - fall is coming on rather quickly here.
Anyway, thanks for the advice!

 

[CraigC]

My 2500 wanted 80psi in the rear. I never ran it much over 40. So the light stayed on the whole 7yrs I owned it.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Had a chance to fire a 3” New Model Python at Palmetto State Armory. The Gun soak up the .357 well, trigger was good. very accurate

But the range gun bind up on one cylinder, and the rear sight is TRASH! jiggles like a Shag dancer

$1300??? they could have put a better sight on that gun

 

[Hookeye]

IMHO the trigger looks funky on the new Anaconda and Python.
Too long of a single curve.
If they made the profile of the new triggers look like the old, that'd help.
Beyond that, the new Anaconda IMHO looks better than the old.

Only reason I want a new Python is for hunting, and proly end up w reflex sight.
Id not be against drilling and tapping for a base.......on a new one.

Did put Kensight front and rear on my old Python as I have always hated Elliason.

 

[SDGlock23]

I wouldn't call them ugly but to be honest, I think S&W's look better. To me the trigger and hammer proportions are all off on Colts.

 

[orionengnr]

The new Colt revolvers don't do anything for me, but to be honest, new S&W revolvers, new Kimber revolvers, new Ruger revolvers, same...meh.

I look for, buy, shoot and carry older S&W revolvers. Just bought a 1940s .38/44 Heavy Duty.

 

[Mark_Mark]

The new Colt revolvers don't do anything for me, but to be honest, new S&W revolvers, new Kimber revolvers, new Ruger revolvers, same...meh.

I look for, buy, shoot and carry older S&W revolvers. Just bought a 1940s .38/44 Heavy Duty.

Seen the new Henry Revolver! looks very 1960’s Cowboy style

 

[Anchorite]

Am I the only one who finds the new Python and Cobra models ugly?
Maybe not on their own, but put one beside any of their older models - including the Police Positive and Official Police - and tell me if you agree
Notice the elegant curve of the trigger guard and the cylinder release on the old models?
The modern iterations look like they were drawn by a ten year old
I thought that modern manufacturing methods should make it easier to produce complex shapes

It is just me?

Nope. Count me in the “prefer the original camp.” To me, the new Colts like like the offspring of a Colt and Charter Arms one night stand.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Nope. Count me in the “prefer the original camp.” To me, the new Colts like like the offspring of a Colt and Charter Arms one night stand.

what’s Colt Warranty on the New Python? lifetime?

 

[CraigC]

IMHO the trigger looks funky on the new Anaconda and Python.
Too long of a single curve.
If they made the profile of the new triggers look like the old, that'd help.
Beyond that, the new Anaconda IMHO looks better than the old.

Only reason I want a new Python is for hunting, and proly end up w reflex sight.
Id not be against drilling and tapping for a base.......on a new one.

Did put Kensight front and rear on my old Python as I have always hated Elliason.

I think the new ones are already drilled & tapped. At least the Anacondas are.

 

[Riomouse911]

I like the new ones, but I only have a new Cobra 2” to judge them by so my sphere is limited.

I will say the new Cobra shoots better for me than any of my seven S&W J frames (34 4”, 36 & 37 3”, 49, 317 3”, 442, 642), I think because of its better sights and a much better trigger.

This was 24 shots DA at 15 yds on a B-29. Not too bad for a 2” snub.



I don’t have Python or Anaconda cash free right now, but I hope to add one or two at some point.

Stay safe.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I like the new ones, but I only have a new Cobra 2” to judge them by so my sphere is limited.

I will say the new Cobra shoots better for me than any of my seven S&W J frames (34 4”, 36 & 37 3”, 49, 317 3”, 442, 642), I think because of its better sights and a much better trigger.

This was 24 shots DA at 15 yds on a B-29. Not too bad for a 2” snub.

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I don’t have Python or Anaconda cash free right now, but I hope to add one or two at some point.

Stay safe.

as much as I complain about the New Python, I’ll eventually get one too. I’m currently on a CZ S2C or 2011 reddot phase

 

[hey smepl this]

I do not agree.

While I have a great fondness for the old Colt DA revolvers (and do think the Police Positive in particular is an elegant piece of engineering and art), I believe the new King Cobra and Python series to be superior firearms.

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The shape of the trigger-guard on the new KC doesn't bother me.

Ah, but in the immortal words of the legendary actor Patrick Swayze as "Dalton" in the classic motion picture Roadhouse, "Opinions vary."
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Yes, we all mourn the death of the old high-polish bluing. In the meantime, it's still possible to procure minty specimens of the older pistols and revolvers with most or all of the bluing intact, you'll just have to take out a second mortgage on your house or trade in ten of your Glocks...

I like the looks of the new Colts a lot.

 

[golden]

A poor comparison.

Place an old model stainless steel PYTHON next to a new model PYTHON and tell me which one is prettier. I really like the blue on older models like the PYTHON and DIAMONNDBACK, but they are not making blued models yet, so it is a poor comparison.
Now pick up the official police and dry fire it next to the new PYTHON. That is a much better comparison. Yes the single action trigger on my my old Officer's Match was better than the new PYTHON, but I only shoot double action in revolvers, so the PYTHON would be the clear winner.

Jim

 

[mag318]

I'm just glad to see Colt building revolvers again. Own several old ones and the clockwork on the new ones is better and stronger. The big gripe with older Colts like the original Python is that they easily go out of time. The new one don't. My two favorites are the Anaconda and the King Cobra Target 22.

 

[crestoncowboy]

My 2500 wanted 80psi in the rear. I never ran it much over 40. So the light stayed on the whole 7yrs I owned it.

The newer ones actually call for more psi front than rear. I guess the big dmax weighs more than the two trash bags most people tend to haul.


But I'm still liking my new colts. Lol

 

[CraigC]

The newer ones actually call for more psi front than rear. I guess the big dmax weighs more than the two trash bags most people tend to haul.


But I'm still liking my new colts. Lol

I think it was 80 rear and 60 front but could be wrong.

 

[crestoncowboy]

I think it was 80 rear and 60 front but could be wrong.

They have always called for more psi rear up until 2015. First one i saw that called for more up front was a 2015 single rear wheel 2015 6.0 truck. Not even a dmax. But ive saw several since then at the shop.