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Mt friend sent me an E-mail synopsis of a gun auction back east and the first item (with cool picture!) sold there was a Colt Python (blued with 6" barrel) that sold for $42,500.00 (forty two thousand five hundred dollars!)! It was in caliber 22 Magnum (rimfire)! If I could only "see" into the future. Trying to figure out how to post pics here - if anyone is interested P/M me your E-mail and I will forward the short pictured synopsis to you. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Yep from what I learned a few weeks ago there were 28 made. Minneapolis police were goin to use them for training. It’s a long story,( I hate typing on the iPad).
Don’t worry there will be experts along soon to say BS. But it’s was related to me by a gun store onwer whose late father worked for a wholesaler in Minnesota. He actually has one.
He said when he called Colt, they new nothing about them.
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That would be quite the find!!!
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Chilinstructor: I was chasin guns in Butte, Montana today when I came across a 6" Colt Python in MINT condition! It was in (of all places!) a pawn shop! The price tag read $3,500.00! It was a blued pistol and again it was minty with no trace even of a cylinder turn line. I got serious with the shop owner and he relayed he had been offered $2,900.00 for it - and my pittance of an offer was rejected. I distinctly remember these pistols being offered at retail/new for under $300.00 way back when - again if I could only see into the future. I wonder what firearms today will be worth ten plus times their retail price in 40 years or so?
Viking: Thank YOU very much for that bit of very interesting/pertinent information on the production numbers. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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But it’s was related to me by a gun store onwer whose late father worked for a wholesaler in Minnesota. He actually has one.
He said when he called Colt, they new nothing about them.
Must have been Bill Hicks.
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The guy said he went to buy a couple of guns from a guy. The seller he said he had a couple of pistols. So the buyer took about 400 dollars with him. Buyer said one revolver was a Mosin -Nagant. The other was in a colt box, he said he recognized his dad’s writing on the box/label. He asked how much for the Colt, the guy said 600$. He didn’t have enough so he asked his wife for 200$. Done deal.
I don’t recall if he said how many years ago this took place though.
That’s when he started his quest.
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I should add, that most of the 22 mags went back to Colt or the distributor. I believe. There was a handful that remained unaccounted for.
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Viking: Thanks again for that additional info. Interesting indeed. So you're saying there's not much of a chance in me finding one of these 22 Magnum Colt Pythons! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Slim to none and slim walked out. There might be 3-4 out there now.
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Yeah, we got started on the Colt python price subject. Then about obscure Colt models like the Kodiak..
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Mt friend sent me an E-mail synopsis of a gun auction back east and the first item (with cool picture!) sold there was a Colt Python (blued with 6" barrel) that sold for $42,500.00 (forty two thousand five hundred dollars!)! It was in caliber 22 Magnum (rimfire)! If I could only "see" into the future. Trying to figure out how to post pics here - if anyone is interested P/M me your E-mail and I will forward the short pictured synopsis to you. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy That’s a one of a kind. I believe that revolver is a one off prototype.
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The Python book says there were only 5 .22 Python’s of which two were Magnum.
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Well I guess I know that guy that has the other one than.
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Well I guess I know that guy that has the other one than. Just stating what is documented, not implying ANYTHING at all. I tend to think anyone who can afford to buy such a rare gun is more than smart enough to know exactly what he’s buying.
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I had been watching 7 or 8 w/box of varying flavors for the last several days, bidding on one of them.
They all went for over $3K. I think I'll go back to ignoring them.
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Local dirt: Of recent (last 10 years or so) in my dealings/collectings of guns (both Rifles and pistols) my personal policy is only buy thousand dollar and under guns that I know can be re-sold for what I paid for them or for MORE than I paid for them! My policy for guns above $1,000.00 is to "steal" them (buy them at bargain basement prices) or simply pass on them! Needless to say in the past 10 years or so I have only bought a double handful (10 or less) of guns valued above $1,000.00 - people selling $1,000.00 guns usually are in no hurry to sell said guns. Yeah once you get up around the $3,000.00 area for guns there aren't many "good deals" in todays market. I stay plenty busy with the under $1,000.00 guns, to say the least. Good luck in your bidding! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Local dirt: Of recent (last 10 years or so) in my dealings/collectings of guns (both Rifles and pistols) my personal policy is only buy thousand dollar and under guns that I know can be re-sold for what I paid for them or for MORE than I paid for them! My policy for guns above $1,000.00 is to "steal" them (buy them at bargain basement prices) or simply pass on them! Needless to say in the past 10 years or so I have only bought a double handful (10 or less) of guns valued above $1,000.00 - people selling $1,000.00 guns usually are in no hurry to sell said guns. Yeah once you get up around the $3,000.00 area for guns there aren't many "good deals" in todays market. I stay plenty busy with the under $1,000.00 guns, to say the least. Good luck in your bidding! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy I'm with you, VG.. although I've crept up around $1100 for a couple that I really wanted.
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Almost all gun, guitars, Gold appreciate at 3% compounded per year. This is background inflation.
There are some exceptions: Colt double action revolvers have gone up at 5% or 6%. Mossberg 16 gauge bolt action shotguns have gone up at 1%.
In contrast. AMZN stock bought 19 years ago has appreciated at 31% per year. The Colt 1911 45acp I bought 20 years ago has appreciated at 3%.
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Almost all gun, guitars, Gold appreciate at 3% compounded per year. This is background inflation.
There are some exceptions: Colt double action revolvers have gone up at 5% or 6%. Mossberg 16 gauge bolt action shotguns have gone up at 1%.
In contrast. AMZN stock bought 19 years ago has appreciated at 31% per year. The Colt 1911 45acp I bought 20 years ago has appreciated at 3%. Not that it has anything to do with anything. But, how much would that AMZN stock, or a warehouse full of $100's, for that matter, be worth if TS were to ever HTF? or a S&W Model 19..
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Not that it has anything to do with anything. But, how much would that AMZN stock, or a warehouse full of $100's, for that matter, be worth if TS were to ever HTF?
or a S&W Model 19..
The hypothesis of the current most popular non fiction book, LOSER THINK by Scott Adams, is that we think we can see causation, while overlooking other possibilities. I will now commit looser think. Einstein did not fight the vermark with a Mauser. He instead took his stash of money and passport, and escaped to America. Before there were www forums there was usenet. I was unpopular on misc.survivalism with my question, "You have a bug out vehicle, but no passport?"
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