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.

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.

Over Three grand for a matte revolver with rubber grips?

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

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.

A Python in a matte finish? That's just plain wrong.

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.

OP,

I agree.

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.

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 .

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.

I think the Colt Python is the most overrated handgun, ever.





Clark

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?

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 owned and shot one for years. Overrated.

Pass the Smith and hold the turkey.



Travis

I'm gonna go look for that SAA today.




Travis

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.

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.

Cant find this on the internet

Does this mean "Merry Christmas" for me?

I don't know why y'all are comparing the Python to the 19. This ain't 1972. The L frame Smith's are nearly identical in size to the Colt and a much better comparison. The 586 is superior in nearly every way to the Python.

Oh so true. When I can get freckles on my matte finished M700's in Colorado, gawd knows what it must be like in the south..........

Anyone got a link to this mythical creature?

Matte finish in a famous revolver model means cheap work to me.

I've heard that many of the skilled machinists and polishers at the major gun companies have grown old, retired or simply let go.

Having said that, my own favorite Colt 1911 Government Model has been heavily customized by a young gunsmith fresh out of school!

He bead blasted the stainless pistol, lowered the ejection port and smoothed the feed and action, added a Swenson dual safety, a beavertail and a nylon trigger and a Hogue grip. Oh yes, trijicon sights.

Mark Krebs later moved on to his own shop in Waukonda, IL, focusing exclusively on modifications to and specialized components for AK-47s, and he is generally regarded as the best in that field. I've heard that he is so popular that he doesn't even deal direct with customers anymore, leaving that to 3 or 4 distributors of his products.

He did a fine job on my Colt!

Norm

From a pure shooting perspective, the Python leaves me clueless as to why they are so alluring. Even from an eye for appearance, I'm not sure why they have the appeal, but they damned sure do for lots of fellas. If your a revolver lover; appreciating fit, finish, action and most important function, there is truly only one brand that is tops, and that is early S&W revolvers.

Classless son of a bitch?

they didnt really put big white letters on it , did they?
dont mind the matte but the lettering looks g a y

Everybody knows Ed McGivern and Jerry Miculek really shot Pythons.

Best factory trigger on a handgun IME.