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July 13, 2018, 06:36 PM | #26 |
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Wow, I must have done good at paying $491 new in box out the door in 1982 for a 6" blue Python
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July 13, 2018, 07:58 PM | #27 |
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Anyone think "Python Madness" is about done?
Yes. Unless of course I stumble into a smoking deal on another one... |
July 14, 2018, 10:57 AM | #28 |
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Maybe. But then it will, like always, rise again. These things, collector or enthusiasts interest in specific models, come and go.
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July 14, 2018, 11:23 AM | #29 | |
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Quote:
Great picture MuzzleBlasts.
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July 14, 2018, 05:58 PM | #30 |
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Usually when people talk about the Python trigger they mean the single action trigger.
It was arguably the best ever in a production revolver. As for the stacking Colt trigger, an interesting bit of history was that in many S&W PPC guns the trigger had a rubber trigger stop installed. This was so the DA trigger pull would stack just before the hammer dropped, much like a Colt. Brownell's still sell them. |
July 14, 2018, 06:16 PM | #31 |
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I love revolvers, I love my practicality shooters. I payed $1375 for my 12" S&W 460 PC XVR. I don't buy "collectible safe queens". IMO people thinking a used Anaconda is worth $2K is just stupid, but hey it's your money not mine.
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July 15, 2018, 08:38 AM | #32 |
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I've bought two, and sold two. They are fantastic, but ultimately I settled on the S&W line as shooters. They had a much broader product line and more reasonable prices. A fellow could get multiple revolvers in an array of calibers all of the same pattern. That was much harder to do with Colt, and a lot more expensive.
As I recall my first 6" was $350 in 1980-1981. The second was more interesting. I walked into a chain sporting goods store in 1992, and sitting in the case was an 8" Python Target in .38 Spl which was a single run that they did in 198...7? It had been sitting in the case for years. The box was shredded from being put in the safe every night and the Styrofoam liner was a mess. It still had the original price on it. $550. That was the most accurate revolver I've ever shot. It shot like a rifle. But then it should, as it weighed about the same as a rifle (or so it seemed). It was just too heavy, even in my younger years, to do any extended off-hand shooting with. Bear in mind that at the time, you could buy target K-frames for half to three-quarters the price of a Python. After decades of trigger time with S&W's I have no desire for one any longer. |
July 15, 2018, 09:15 AM | #33 |
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I have suffered two symptoms of Python Madness. 1st in early 70s when I had
a couple I sold them. Why?, because I could shoot a S&W M27 better. 2nd I could now kick myself for selling them then, so I could sell them now! I had Diamond Backs too, also abandoned for m17s & m14 S&Ws. They were all nice pistols but I stuck with S&Ws and still do. There is S&W Madness also. The older P&Rs just keep climbing in price every day. No one makes them like they use to. |
July 16, 2018, 09:45 AM | #34 |
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I've resisted saying this for as long as I could:
As long as there are fans out there who can recite lines from the Dead Parrot sketch, Python Madness will live on. "Its metabolic processes are of interest only to historians." |
July 16, 2018, 01:56 PM | #35 |
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Last time I looked, the prices on Pythons had slumped. Maybe that was just the 2 1/2 inchers, as someone dumped a bunch of them several years ago?
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July 16, 2018, 07:42 PM | #36 |
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The pythons have been highly sorted way before “walking dead” series. The guess the prices are just tipping people off. Colt revolvers aren’t typical an edc or much of a range tactical weapon so I guess these factors has lead to less buyers
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July 17, 2018, 12:51 PM | #37 |
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Pythons are collectibles in today's market. That is what makes them valuable. The fact that collectors are willing to pay the high prices could change at any time. Just ask collectors of 17th and 18th Century Antique furniture how much value can decline or increase in just a couple of years.
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