I recently traded for a new 4.25” Colt Python. Was thinking of having a trigger job done on it. Who do you recommend?

You see these guys' name come up often for Colt Python trigger work - Heffron Precision

Maybe try and PM local_dirt too, if I recall correctly, he just sent his out to someone for trigger work.

I'm just old school enough to think that a new $1500 Python shouldn't need a trigger job. That a nice crisp trigger job was one of the reasons the gun cost $1500 to begin with.

skeen, I did send my Python to Mike Heffron. Trigger job, action job, recrown barrel. Happy with his work. Considering sending him my Anaconda, too.

Thank you for the info. I’ll give mike a call.

I'd give Alex Hamilton in San Antonio a call.

https://tenring.com/

How many pythons does he worked on?

Loads of 'em.

Mike Heffron's experience:

between 2020 Pythons, 2021 Anacondas, 2017 Cobras, and 2019 King Cobras, it’s around 1400 total, with around 200 Anacondas and the 300 balance being King Cobras and Cobras (besides the approximately 900 Pythons).

If you have a Colt DA revolver you're going to need a gunsmith.

You obviously don't own a Python, for $1500 it "shouldn't need a trigger job".......but it does!!!!!

I owned a Python. In about 1985-ish. It didn't need a trigger job.

I am glad this topic came up. About 13 years ago I asked the same question for my original Anaconda and was told only to contact Colt. I sold it and got it back so have thought of it again. The trigger is better than Ruger's, but not as good as my older S&W.

IMO, those may in a different league, compared with these new ones.

I have an original and it don’t need anything. New ones well may.

I don’t think they can or will be able to reduplicate those older ones. Compare them side by side.

I report, you decide.

DF

Not the same as the 35+ year old models, we are talking the new $1500 Python.

I have an original Python also that has never been worked on, the new ones need worked on.

Only thing the same is the two names. Colt & Python, the gun itself is very different internally

The new one is different.. and better.

And if you want to argue, feel free to argue with the guy that's worked on 900 of them.

tag

Hell my dad sent his 69 E series to the Colt Custom Shop for a trigger job.

Wasnt bad before but came back mo betta

If he had to work on 900, how are they better than the old ones? Never heard much about those needing work.

DF

I doubt the new one are even equal to the old ones, much less better

Who said he "had" to work on 900?

Like I said to the other guy. Ask him.

https://www.heffronprecision.com/

Call him. Feel free to discuss.

https://www.heffronprecision.com/

Not trying to get into a Fire style argument, but why send a gun to a smith unless it needs something?

DF

Call for what?

Custom work / Tuning.

Discuss or prove your postulate.

I guess what some here are not understanding....MOGC stated that his 1985 Colt Python did not need a trigger job and related it to a 2022 Colt Python.

Ford made a Bronco in 1985 and they also make a Bronco in 2022.....they are not the same in 1985 or 2022, either the Python or the Bronco.
You would think that someone with even a Neanderthal mentality would be able to understand that.

The 2022 Colt Python is a fine revolver but the trigger SUCKS and needs some work.........don't know why that is so hard for some to understand

I've already done that with another gunsmith

I just put it together. Your last name is Heffron.


Standing up for your spouse is admirable.

Now now Scott.

The real point is that I have a bit of trouble understanding why it is so easy to forgive a $1500 revolver for having the need for a gunsmith straight out of the box. A $500 revolver, sure I get it.

Because you say so. Pompous fugks will drag these kind of threads out forever blovulating and measuring their dicks.

Try thinking more and blovulating less.

I'm thinking some of you guys who have come out of the woodwork are just pissed because your Old Python's value has gone through the floor.

Hey MOG, I sent my Python off before I ever fired a shot. My goal was to own a tricked out Python and that's what I have. Ain't apologizing. $500. $1500. Didn't matter

Rafe, Shhhhh. You're going to make him start up another sock.

😀😃🙂

It's your gun and it's your money, I don't figure you owe anyone anything.

I see near mint 80’s vintage Pythons listed for $3,500 or so.

I wouldn’t say value is thru the floor.

DF

Yeah. Good luck with that.

You're right, MOG. It is (×2), and I don't.

This.

C'mon, man, the imbecile Democrat in office isn't Jimmy Carter, its a different clown.

It's 2022, $1500 bucks doesn't buy a Buick anymore.

If a man wants an action job, then so be it. A trigger and action job is the easiest, least expensive, gun-smithin' you can get done.

What's different between that and everybody pulling their factory Remington 700 triggers to replace 'em with a TriggerTech or Timney, before even shooting 'em?

I have both a new Python and Anaconda, and, personally, I find the triggers on both acceptable.

You do you.

To no one in particular, I think it's called a difference of opinion. It's not a big deal.

Python was $1500 when Trump was in office.

In 2020, Colt reintroduced the Python in a 4.25″ and a 6″ barrel configuration,

I have both too, skeen. And who said the new Python needed anything? Let me tell you who. Blovulators who have never owned one and don't have the scratch to buy one.

Who said they have problems.......gun writers to start.
Factory let out a gun with problems

Not following this thread, so sorry if this has already been mentioned.

The reason for the heavy SA pull on the Python is CA and MD drop tests. That is what they need to do to pass the test. Sucks, but they have to live in the real world and make revolvers that will sell in their biggest markets.

Hey!!!!!
If we wanted facts.......oh wait.
Thanks Ol Buddy

Yeah, I almost didn't post because it looked like people were much more interested in complaining than figuring out why.

So CA and MD are Colt's biggest markets for the Python? Colt's marketing strategy is to muck up the trigger pull for 48 other states and the rest of the free world to satisfy the CA and MD drop test requirements?

It has to pass the drop test with the hammer cocked?? No one carries a double action revolver that way.

Gun writers? Shirley you jest.

Ahlman's in Morristown, MN.

I have them tune and ream the forcing cone in all of my shooter revolvers.

CA is the biggest market for everything, they have nearly 40 million people. In 2014 (or was it '15?) I was at a lunch with the then CEO of S&W, and he informed me that California was 39% of S&W's total sales. You can't ignore that.

So I'm basing my statement on what he shared with me. If CA means that much to S&W, it's likely Colt is in a similar situation. After all, Colt doesn't really have any handguns that are NOT on the CA list. So Colt may even get more of their share from CA (again, speculation but I'm betting I'm not far off).

No one ever said it makes sense.

And Justin Baldini,Colt Product Director said they were still chasing problems after it was released.......

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I don't GAF. My gun is beautiful and completely tricked out Hope you're able to get that job at Whatabutger so you can have one, too. Wish you were here. 🙃

Good grief LD...

Meh.......doesn’t matter.

Facts are facts.

Get upset when the facts fail you.

Just did 7 weeks of radiation hell and dealing with some f'd up latent side effects. Not very tolerant of douchebags trying to rain on somebody else's parade right now.

I always consider you one of the good guys around here and that seemed out of character for you. Best of luck with your health, that experience couldn't be any fun for sure. Take care.

MOGC, same to you. The reason this kind of behavior infuriates me is that it's been the catalyst for so many of the Old Guard leaving the board. Dudes come on the board and blovulate about the subject matter of a thread and run their yaps while they have no direct experience or don't even own any of the hardware they're yapping about (gun writer xyz says so).

For example: This thread... or the constant badgering of shrapnel shouting grouse out of a tree with a pistola. The main douchebag antagonist who was badgering shrapnel has probably never even seen a grouse. But, that has no bearing on him taking poetic license to criticize shrapnel.

Somebody wants to know something about a new Python or a new Anaconda, ask me.. or at least ask somebody who has forgot more about them than I'll ever know, like Mike Heffron.

I'm dun here. No more casting pearls before swine.

Check Gunsamerica and such on line. I know, that’s ask, not sales. Vintage snake guns do demand a premium.

DF

Blovulate = bloviate + ovulate........Good one.

I own a new python and the trigger is terrible. I need to send it somewhere and have it fixed. Not happy about that on a $1500 gun but other than the trigger it seems like a good gun. I thought about buying a 7 shot 686 as a shooter and just Rat holing the python new as a collector but the recent 686s I've seen have a terrible finish. I picked up a decent used gp100 to shoot while I figure it all out. For years I just used 44 mag and have several of those but as I've gotten older I've seen more value in 357s and 38s for range time. I used to run full house 44 mags all the time but my joints just don't hold up to that like they used too. I don't like a beat up and bloody trigger finger anymore from 310g hot loads in a 329pd.

Bb