Originally Posted by alwaysoutdoors
Originally Posted by Blackheart
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by dla
Originally Posted by satir
the answer is "not a damned thing". :-) It's all hype. Colt's DA's have always had a rep for going out of time with fewer rds than the Smiths. The rugers put them both to shame in that regard, but the smith's trigger pull will always be a touch smoother. Reaslically, the Python is overprice by a factor of 10.

Can I buy a new Python? No? Why not? Could it be that Colt's design was a POS and the market spoke loud and clear?

Too expensive to manufacture for a reasonable market price. Skilled labor costs too much today vs pre-1960s. Same reason Winchester overhauled all their products post-1963.
You've got a warped sense of what skilled labor costs in the gun industry. The firearms industry is the only one I know that relies on charity to exist. Folks who do it, do it because they love guns and it's what they want to do. Most of them could make alot more money doing something else. Firearms are a relatively low profit margin product and wages for those who build them are comparatively low.

Youre way dumber than you look .
Maybe but I'm waaay smarter than you look.