Colt has started shipping new Python's into distribution already.
AND your opinion is MY opinion too!!!I paid $400.00 for my first new python in 77. In 78 I bought another one for a little over $500.00.
By 79 I had come to the conclusion that a K frame Smith had a better action.
My first duty weapon was a Diamondback 4".
Their wantin $1400.00 for that gun, and twice that for the old Pythons.
I know where three Pythons, and two Diamondbacks are that have been sitting under glass for over 2 years.
They are over priced, and so are the new ones.
IN MY OPINION.
I never really thought that much of the Python, or colt revolvers in general. I guess I woulda bin called a "Smith Man."if you want the most consistently accurate revolver with the finest build and smoothest action, then you wanted the original S&W 357 magnum, later to become the M-27.
This just isn't true...I find it interesting that back when the Python was priced within the reach (barely) of the average person it was probably the most universally admired revolver. Now that the prices on them are out of reach for most people it's suddenly become the most criticized revolver ever made!
Anybody that is familiar with both actions will know a S&W trigger pull cannot be made as smooth as what a Python can be made. The S&W design simply doesn't allow it. The trigger return slide on a S&W is a relatively large metal on metal slide that causes stiction, stiction the Python does not have. The return slide is also pushed by a cheap, and nasty, coil spring. So claims your trigger pull being as smooth as a Python's; sorry, that's simply not true.Python trigger pull is so long and a smith with just a little work is as smooth or smoother and shorter.
Nice spin you're attempting there ... no, the issue is not wear, but actual forcing cones failing. K frame forcing cones don't ever wear out, they crack way before that. They crack because S&W K frame .357 revolvers have a design flaw. See attached image. The K frame is too small for .357 cal and therefore S&W engineers had to trim away part of the forcing cone to fit. That is were the K frame forcing cone will fail. Shoot enough rounds and a K frame breaks. I have never heard of a Python breaking a forcing cone (or anything else)Forcing cone? You can shoot out a python too if you feed it a steady diet of 357.
While I don't shoot "the snot" out of any of my guns, my Pythons have shot more rounds with the same full power .357 ammo that had caused two of my K frames to break their forcing cones. For the record, I never ever shoot 38's out of .357 chambers. A K frame is probably robust enough for a steady diet of 38s and should probably never have been sold as a 357.Thing is people thing pythons don't wear out because about nobody I know shoots the snot out of them. Show me one with 50k round count and if you can find one id bet most of those were 38s.
When hunting, I never saw anyone where "I was" carrying a shotgun with a vent rib, but I did see a python with rust under it's rib. We hunted for weeks, out in the bush, (in tents) and I never had my M-29 fail in any way, never saw any "qualified colt people" out there either. I guess IF, we had had a sat phone, we could have had one flown out there though. lol lolThe vent rib was a problem?? Must be a lot of shotgunners that never take their vent rib shotguns hunting!
You really need to work on your reading and comprehension skills!!Hard to imagine someone who has never seen anyone hunting with a vent rib shotgun.
If you say the component is easy to fix, then there must be a problem right? The component is easy to improve, impossible to fix. Let me explain by way of comparing to the Manuhrin return slide.Now someone mentioned that one of the Smith action problems on smoothing is the trigger return spring block. BS!
That component is one of the easiest fixes towards a smooth action fix.
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