Ugly Python on Gunbroker....

Skans · April 28, 2015, 05:01 PM

Any of you looking for an ugly shooter grade Python, there's one on Gunbroker for a hair under $1,200. No bidders so far. This one is going to need more than a factory fluff&buff to make it pretty. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=479663010

I think it would take about $600 or so to restore this one - maybe more because of the location of the pitting.

Venom1956 · April 28, 2015, 05:27 PM

must have been a duty gun. Bobbed hammer. It has some charm 'i worked for a living not a trophy' look.

It would be a nice find for 7 bills. Could shoot the snot outta it cuz its never gonna be pretty again. Those Hogues have to go. Gross.

lee n. field · April 28, 2015, 06:17 PM

Before I look, is this the Realtree(R) camo painted one?

(looked)

<sigh>

Looks beat.

CajunBass · April 28, 2015, 06:56 PM

Give me an old T-shirt, a tube of Flitz, and a can of car wax, and I'll make it look like a different gun.

S&W-Keeper · April 28, 2015, 08:00 PM

Is that character, or abuse.

indie_rocker · April 28, 2015, 08:06 PM

I would actually be interested in buying and really enjoying shooting many many rounds through that if the seller didn't want an outrageous price for a well used firearm.

**4V50 Gary** · April 28, 2015, 08:18 PM

I thought mine were ugly (both bought used).

reticle · April 28, 2015, 09:20 PM

That Colt has been rode hard and put away wet.

Sharkbite · April 28, 2015, 11:16 PM

Id buff it out as best i could then hardchrome that pony

Not for that price though

gyvel · April 28, 2015, 11:29 PM

Rust on the sideplate looks like blood damage.

Loronzo · April 28, 2015, 11:30 PM

Somebody paid 1375 for....that... Wow...

Salmoneye · April 29, 2015, 06:17 AM

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Rust on the sideplate looks like blood damage.

That was exactly my thought...

Skans · April 29, 2015, 08:43 AM

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I would actually be interested in buying and really enjoying shooting many many rounds through that if the seller didn't want an outrageous price for a well used firearm.

Yes, me too......but not for 1,375. But, if a good gunsmith purchased that gun for that price, he'll make that gun perty again and get $2,300 for it. You'd have to be really good with metal - going to have to add some metal where those pits are, machine it, sand it, polish it and recarve that pony in it...for starters.

Or, someone got a fun python to shoot and just didn't want to look forever to save a few hundred bucks.

April 28, 2015, 05:01 PM	#1
Skans Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2008 Posts: 11,132	Ugly Python on Gunbroker.... Any of you looking for an ugly shooter grade Python, there's one on Gunbroker for a hair under $1,200. No bidders so far. This one is going to need more than a factory fluff&buff to make it pretty. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=479663010 I think it would take about $600 or so to restore this one - maybe more because of the location of the pitting.

April 28, 2015, 05:27 PM	#2
Venom1956 Senior Member Join Date: October 4, 2008 Location: WI Posts: 3,656	must have been a duty gun. Bobbed hammer. It has some charm 'i worked for a living not a trophy' look. It would be a nice find for 7 bills. Could shoot the snot outta it cuz its never gonna be pretty again. Those Hogues have to go. Gross. __________________ E-Shock rounds are engineered to expend maximum energy into soft targets, turning the density mass into an expanding rotational cone of NyTrilium matrix particles, causing neurological collapse to the central nervous system.- Yeah I can do that. I guarantee you will know it if a bicyclist hits your house going 1000 mph. -Smaug

April 28, 2015, 06:17 PM	#3
lee n. field Senior Member Join Date: October 12, 2002 Location: The same state as Mordor. Posts: 5,569	Before I look, is this the Realtree(R) camo painted one? (looked) <sigh> Looks beat. __________________ "As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. "

April 28, 2015, 06:56 PM	#4
CajunBass Senior Member Join Date: May 6, 2005 Location: North Chesterfield, Virginia Posts: 4,767	Give me an old T-shirt, a tube of Flitz, and a can of car wax, and I'll make it look like a different gun. __________________ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 (NKJV)

April 28, 2015, 08:18 PM	#7
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,841	I thought mine were ugly (both bought used). __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

April 28, 2015, 08:00 PM	#5
S&W-Keeper Senior Member Join Date: February 6, 2009 Location: SE-SC Posts: 443	Is that character, or abuse.

April 28, 2015, 08:06 PM	#6
indie_rocker Senior Member Join Date: June 21, 2014 Location: Michigan Posts: 189	I would actually be interested in buying and really enjoying shooting many many rounds through that if the seller didn't want an outrageous price for a well used firearm.

April 28, 2015, 09:20 PM	#8
reticle Senior Member Join Date: November 27, 2002 Location: ut. Posts: 341	That Colt has been rode hard and put away wet.

April 28, 2015, 11:16 PM	#9
Sharkbite Senior Member Join Date: November 4, 2013 Location: Western slope of Colorado Posts: 3,679	Id buff it out as best i could then hardchrome that pony Not for that price though

April 28, 2015, 11:29 PM	#10
gyvel Senior Member Join Date: August 30, 2009 Location: Northern AZ Posts: 7,172	Rust on the sideplate looks like blood damage. __________________ As always, YMMV. __________________________________________ MIIAA SIFE

April 28, 2015, 11:30 PM	#11
Loronzo Senior Member Join Date: July 1, 2012 Posts: 121	Somebody paid 1375 for....that... Wow...