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GB is publicizing the giveaway of a matte finished Python lately. I haven't even looked into the giveaway, but not just because I know the odds of winning are so slim.
In my mind, a Colt revolver with anything but a beautiful, deep blue finish cannot be a Python---except maybe a stainless model, which I can somewhat grudgingly acknowledge to be a Stainlesspython. A matte finish just seems terribly WRONG to me. I think Colt should have done whatever would have been necessary to keep a crew who could produce the classic deep blue finish on the job.
A matte finished Python appeals to me like a BLT with no bacon on it.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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ya thats like the matte finish that remington and marlin has on their guns now. ugly as hell and attracts rust like sanded iron. if it ain't stainless or nickle, i want polished blue.
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Over Three grand for a matte revolver with rubber grips?
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Have a blue one that has some wear. Nickel one looks brand new. Much prefer the blued one, always felt like a damned pimp using the nickel one.
Hey we drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa ! How’s she look. Matte finished python? Pffft
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Never understood the allure of a Python? Backwards cylinder release, cylinder turns the wrong way, and piss poor double action. Stacked against an older, smooth S&W revolver, a Python won't make a pimple on a M19s azz.
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A Python in a matte finish? That's just plain wrong.
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I had a Colt Trooper 357 when I was in high school back in the 60's. It broke me from ever wanting another double action Colt. A S&W was so much easier to get worked on and less expensive too.
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In truth, you couldn't give me another gun. Not a Colt, because I have four in the safe, an Anaconda in .45 Colt; a very accurate New Frontier in .45 Colt, and my wife's custom 1911 and Woodsman Match Target. Problem isn't with Colts, I carried an old model 6" Trooper for years as a duty piece that was worked over by F. Bob Chow back in the day; the problem is with the hassle of accepting a prize handgun in California. It just isn't worth all the rigmarole, renewing a handgun safety card, paying the registration fee, whatever tax, and then waiting the ten days to take possession. Not to mention there is no more room in the safes. At some point, we have everything we need, and giveaways, and raffles, loose their attractiveness, unless they are for charities we support, then I'd simply refuse the prize should I win it, and let someone else have the fun of winning.
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In truth, you couldn't give me another gun. Not a Colt, because I have four in the safe, an Anaconda in .45 Colt; a very accurate New Frontier in .45 Colt, and my wife's custom 1911 and Woodsman Match Target. Problem isn't with Colts, I carried an old model 6" Trooper for years as a duty piece that was worked over by F. Bob Chow back in the day; the problem is with the hassle of accepting a prize handgun in California. It just isn't worth all the rigmarole, renewing a handgun safety card, paying the registration fee, whatever tax, and then waiting the ten days to take possession. Not to mention there is no more room in the safes. At some point, we have everything we need, and giveaways, and raffles, loose their attractiveness, unless they are for charities we support, then I'd simply refuse the prize should I win it, and let someone else have the fun of winning. That is cool. I have a Model 28 worked on by Bob Chow. It is my safe queen.
Me solum relinquatis
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I love Colt 1911's , I would not use a Python for daily use. My brother owned close to 30 pythons at one point and he made a nice ROI when he sold them .
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Jefe,
Have you ever shot any Pythons?
I have many Smiths, from vintage K 22's to the 29's . Cannot do much with the 53's, and I like them all.. Most have ben dialed in by Denny at SandBurr Ranch ??? in Rochester, In.
I would NEVER knock the Smiths........."course every one CANNOT own a Python.
My Pythons do not need to be smoothed up.
I have owned a couple Pythons that had to have the "hand " replaced.
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I think the Colt Python is the most overrated handgun, ever.
Clark
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That is what shooters say that cannot own one !
That is ekzakly what I think about CZ's.....with ALL the Quality the CZECHS can muster.
Who wants that last piece of turkey?
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A matte finished Python appeals to me like a BLT with no bacon on it.
The problem is today's buyer has no taste. If that wasn't true, there wouldn't be so many stainless/plastic guns. The industry is about sales, not class...
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That is what shooters say that cannot own one !
That is ekzakly what I think about CZ's.....with ALL the Quality the CZECHS can muster.
Who wants that last piece of turkey? I owned and shot one for years. Overrated. Pass the Smith and hold the turkey. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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A matte finished Python appeals to me like a BLT with no bacon on it.
The problem is today's buyer has no taste. If that wasn't true, there wouldn't be so many stainless/plastic guns. The industry is about sales, not class... I'm gonna go look for that SAA today. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Never understood the allure of a Python? Backwards cylinder release, cylinder turns the wrong way, and piss poor double action. Stacked against an older, smooth S&W revolver, a Python won't make a pimple on a M19s azz. I have to agree, right now out in the safe I have a 6" Python and a 6" S&W 19. I find the cylinder release on the Python awkward (but maybe I'm just used to S&W) the trigger pull on the 19 smoother, and the weight of the Python excessive. Most likely the Python is a stronger handgun, but I have shot a couple of boxes of Buffalo Bore in the 19, and it handled them fine, no excessive recoil. People talk about the deep blue finish of the Python, but side by side the finish on the 19 seems to have more luster.
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I have shot a Python, I also shot competitively for 35 years on state, national and international level, the last 10 of that run, exclusively in revolver competition.
In all that time, I saw exactly one Python used, that was at the "Steel Challenge", used by the late gun scribe Dave Arnold, and his first draw, on the first stage, it cart wheeled out of his hand on the draw, and landed in the dust....good place for it, at least in a competitive sense.
No doubt, I wished I had squirreled a half dozen away in my youth for resale, but for actual "use", by that I mean double action shooting as they were intended, they are vastly inferior to a Smith.
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