It's At The Shop--New Colt Python x 6"

[CZ93X62]

After a 14-month wait, I just got a call from the War Toy Emporium that the stainless Colt Python x 6" has landed and awaits my signature and paperwork for Gavin The Magnificent to smile upon the transfer. I know that some of the first ones out the gate had a few problems, but the several that have been purchased over the past several months have been flawless. No, I'm not excited--not me.

 

[bruce381]

Nice they have a better trigger than the originals no stacking, But hate SS I like old school bluing though Colt does not do the real nice stuff of days gone by any way. BUT a nice 3-4inch SS might be OK

 

[Winelover]

LGS has had a 6" for months. They're asking $1400. Get emails Bud's Gun Shop, daily. They currently have all the flavors in stock.

https://www.budsgunshop.com/search.php/q/colt+python

I've owned a 6" Royal Blue since the 70's...........my very first handgun purchase. It's too heavy/ bulky for my use, other than a range toy. Even cutting 3" off the barrel, doesn't reduce the weight, very much. For deer hunting, caliber preference starts with a 4 or even a 5!

 

[300BLK]

I hope you like your new Colt.

I haven't handled a new Python, but had a 6" with factory custom action job some 30 years ago. A K or L frame could be made much slicker anyway....the Python went down the road after I discovered that it wouldn't shoot with my Model 14 or 610 at 50 yards. IMO, the Three Fifty Seven and subsequent Trooper were far better balanced than similar length Pythons.

 

[david s]

I've always thought the 6-inch Python looked about perfectly proportioned. Mines a four-inch blued from 1968, I'm not long enough to sit with a holstered 6-inch revolver. One of my coworkers has one of the Colt Anacondas in 44 magnum from the 1990's. Even though it doesn't use the older Pythons lock work, it's more like the newer Pythons it's a really nice pistol with a really nice action.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Congratulations on yer new colt !
Mrs. Has one from early 80's blue very blue,man they are sure pretty, we haven't had it out for probably 10 years

 

[CZ93X62]

I did the paper chase this afternoon, I can pick it up at 4;57 P.M. next Saturday. I can GUARANTEE all and sundry that Marie and I will be out around Chiriaco Summit Sunday mid-morning putting that Snake and a few other war toys through their paces. As is my habit, I have 20 or so factory loads (Federal #357B) I'll send through it on its maiden voyage in case a warrantee issue crops up early. That done, it's all reloads for the rest of its life with me. Lyman #358429 at 1000 FPS is an all-day load in most 357s, and I have at least 400 of those on hand.

 

[Winelover]

I did the paper chase this afternoon, I can pick it up at 4;57 P.M. next Saturday. I can GUARANTEE all and sundry that Marie and I will be out around Chiriaco Summit Sunday mid-morning putting that Snake and a few other war toys through their paces. As is my habit, I have 20 or so factory loads (Federal #357B) I'll send through it on its maiden voyage in case a warrantee issue crops up early. That done, it's all reloads for the rest of its life with me. Lyman #358429 at 1000 FPS is an all-day load in most 357s, and I have at least 400 of those on hand.

I do the same with every new addition.

 

[CZ93X62]

I've always thought the 6-inch Python looked about perfectly proportioned. Mines a four-inch blued from 1968, I'm not long enough to sit with a holstered 6-inch revolver. One of my coworkers has one of the Colt Anacondas in 44 magnum from the 1990's. Even though it doesn't use the older Pythons lock work, it's more like the newer Pythons it's a really nice pistol with a really nice action.

I had one of those Anacondas back in the 1990s as well. Nice revolver, but I replaced it in 1999 with a 5.5" Redhawk--also a nice wheelgun that still lives ay my house. Unknown as yet if they will materialize, but a 6" Big Snake in 45 Colt would be very hard for me to pass up.

 

[CZ93X62]

The Python is home with me! I'll need to take a rain check on the desert trip tomorrow--that 'Coachella' thing started this weekend (kind of a sub-compact Woodstock V.2.0) and goes for 2 more weekends. Them comes 'Stagecoach'--a country-western version of 'Coachella' for 2 weeks. Way too many Angelenos sifting about for me to consider shooting. That stuff ends just about the time that temps elevate to the blast-furnace level out there in mid-May.

 

[CZ93X62]

Circumstances have combined to keep that Python unfired so far. It will happen, no worries on THAT account--but medical interferences continue apace.

I will be getting the catheters in my right shoulder removed on Thursday. I don't know what the healing regimen will be for that, but having my long-gun shoulder back will be quite an upgrade.

What a jacked-up year this has been, medically speaking.

 

[glassparman]

Don't you just hate the Gavin-Shuffle? 10 days goes by like pouring molasses on the shady side of an iceberg.

 

[bruce381]

every time i look at my 586 4 inch and think it looks kinda like a python i come to my sense and is not in same class

 

[CZ93X62]

Heresy being my stock-in-trade, here goes:

I am a HUGE admirer of the L-frame S&W 357s. The older-series Pythons and Colt Diamondbacks were in my view a bit better sidearms than were the S&W 586 and 19 respectively. This current-edition Python of mine I would rate as the equal of current S&W 686s. If I had short money nowadays, I would have opted for the 686 over the Python due to the $375 price difference between the two examples. I spoiled myself with the Python because I have lusted in my heart to have one for almost 50 years. It's kinda like why people climb Denali or Everest--"Because it's THERE."

 

[Glaciers]

Never had a Python but Diamondback 22 and 38 both 4” Great pistols. Foolishly parted with them for some other purchase. If I had them today they would be part of my estate for my boys.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Admittedly, I am not a Colt person. That statement is in no way a disparagement of the Colts, just a personal preference. I was never as comfortable with the DA trigger on a Colt as I am with S&W’s or Ruger’s. After listening to Al’s explanation concerning the Colt DA, I think I understand my bias a bit more.

I think the L-frame Smiths and the GP-100’s are very strong guns without being the size of an N-frame. One of the best shooting .357 Magnum revolvers I had had was a plain 681.

Colt has a well-deserved reputation of having excellent barrels. They are known to often have an internal taper, with the bore getting tighter towards the muzzle. They also have a different twist rate than the S&W (I don’t know about the current Python’s) In any event, Colt put a lot of quality into their barrels.

 

[bruce381]

"They are known to often have an internal taper"
I have hard that but cannot believe they did it on purpose for a handgun, to me thats shoty gundrilling and broaching.
But the python is sexy as hell wish I had one.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

"They are known to often have an internal taper"
I have hard that but cannot believe they did it on purpose for a handgun, to me thats shoty gundrilling and broaching.
But the python is sexy as hell wish I had one.

I do not know how that taper occurred but even if it was unintentional, it is still beneficial.
I don't know that I would label that as "shoty".

 

[RicinYakima]

I do not know how that taper occurred but even if it was unintentional, it is still beneficial.
I don't know that I would label that as "shoty".

Started in the 1930's for the OMM and Shooting Master. Barrel was bored and then hand reamed to .001" taper. Then rifling cut in the barrel. I think that died out in the 1960's when they stopped using cut rifling.

 

[Bret4207]

Lotta stuff died out in the 60's...