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Offline Elderberry

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The Colt Python is Back!
« on: January 09, 2020, 01:41:57 pm »
American Rifleman  by Mark Keefe - Wednesday, January 1, 2020

The Keefe Report: The Colt Python is Back!

The most desirable of the “snake guns,” as Colt likes to call them, is back. After a couple of decades of no new sixguns with the name “Python” marked on the side of the barrel—there hasn’t been one in the catalog since 1998—Colt’s in West Hartford, Conn., is once again in the big double-action revolver business.

The new Python has the lines of the classic great from Colt but with some mechanical improvements and simplifications. The original guns were virtually hand-made and hand-finished. If you are looking for that, you shan’t find it here. Colt’s is building them as full production guns. The latest Python, think of it like the “new” Ford Mustang (not the abysmal Mustang II), has the ethos and lines of the original, including that distinctive rounded trigger guard and checkered wooden stocks with Colt escutcheons. Colt advises the new stocks will fit on original guns and vice versa.

Gunsite Academy Rangemaster Ed Head—a man not known for subtlety if he disapproves of something—said, “This is an entirely new design from the ground up, completely different. And they have absolutely improved on the old Python.” Heresy? Perhaps not from the shooter’s perspective, and Ed is a shooter first and foremost.

More: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2020/1/1/the-keefe-report-the-colt-python-is-back/

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Re: The Colt Python is Back!
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2020, 01:50:05 pm »
Nice! 

Not sure I can swing $1500 tho... may have to wait till santa gets rich..