Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns IF Colt started making the Colt Python again, AND, , ,

And forging dies (and casting patterns) are a significant tooling investment up-front. Plus the engineering time to review & update all the designs & drawings. Even things like a little leaf spring can run into thousands in tooling cost, up front.

All that up-front investment has to be amortized into the expected production run, along with the recurring manufacturing costs, and you have to then turn enough profit to justify all the trouble. Oh yeah, Colt Industries, or whatever holding company holds the copyrights and trademarks, will charge a mint of money to let someone use the name "Python"

To me, the appeal of the Python was style (beautiful design, and quality of finish); trigger pull quality (leaf spring action); and accuracy (fine heavy barrel, and lockwork that accurately locked the cylinder into place while firing).

The downside of a Python is, it's a .357.

Now maybe, just maybe, if someone of a get-it-done mindset, like Shiloh, or Wilson Combat, were to billet machine a .44 mag revo, and use top quality components, they could match the original gun's quality. But they'd probably sell only a few hundred, and they'd cost as much as a high end 1911.