Posted on 01/07/2020 8:00:54 PM PST by MileHi
Long anticipated, the Colt Python relaunch has finally come and looks well worth the wait.
How Has The 2020 Version Of The Colt Python Been Enhanced:
•More consistent trigger pull shot to shot
•Stronger stainless steel construction
•Beefed-up frame above the cylinder
•Hex-screw attached user-replaceable front sight
•Recessed target crown on a one-piece barrel
(Excerpt) Read more at gundigest.com ...
This is what I’m wondering about. We had one in the mix when I was a kid but dad gravitated towards Dan Wessons. One is my daily carry.
If they live up to the legend, $1500 is a bargain.
Colt did it before HK - first in the 90s and then again this past year.
And I'm sure you remember some "Political Correctness"-driven butt-kissing by Ruger & Smith, back when Clinton was president. Kind of funny about Colt and HK, though: folks generally attribute Colt's 'attitude problem' to corporate mismanagement (i.e., stupidity), while with HK, it's assumed to be the stereotypical, teutonic ubermensch mindset...
Thanks-—ridiculous amounts of practice for several years-—as in a average of 1000 rds of 22 and about 3-500 each per week of 357 and 44 each. Had to tune up my hornady progressive press almost monthly
As an aside I have a blackhawk 357 sighted for long distance with multiple yardage marks engraved in front sight ramp that I worked up a super hot but super accurate load where it would launch a 125 gr. golden saber at almost 1800 fps on the chrono
Smoked a coyote that was hiding mostly behind a scraggly juniper bush at 175 yds and wasn’t much left of it when I went to have a look. that won me a lot of beers from my friends that night who thought it was impossible.
Agree ...... Dan Wessons were / are the Cadillac grade !
Stay Safe !
Shazzam!!!
I’d love to Shoot
Like That,
Thanks!
Good on you.
I had a Python 30 years ago. Very good gun, but I’ve had many other guns since that were just as good and didn’t cost $1,500.
That’s fine. I’ll keep mine.
Actually, at the time HK started their version of that, they were owned by a very squeamish British firm. It wasn’t US PC sensibilities they were trying to assuage. HK also got screwed by BATFE’s schizophrenic regulation of the import of their products, as most were not made in the US. (See the weird ban on the classic HK paddle mag release by the BATFE.) Remember, a LOT of their product lines were banned from import *by name* in various laws like the AWB or classed as “no sporting purpose” even if they were sporting weapons by the 1989 Import Ban. They did continue to develop make, import and sell pistols and shotguns.
Colt, on the other hand, decided it would be a good idea to all but discontinue their revolvers, only sell overpriced 1911s, refuse to develop a polymer pistol line or a modern carry pistol line thus missing the entire CCW revolution, even without such restrictions. Colt management is also on public record as saying that civilian sales were not important to them at all and that it could all dry up as far as they were concerned as they would prefer to sell to LEO and military only. The one time some idiot journalist type implied that HK was not interested in civilian sales of everything they made/imported that was legal for civilians to possess, HK fired back with a “Nope, that’s wrong and we’re cutting you off now.” The journo, Jerry Tsai, got hammered so much by HK and the firearms community that he had to resign from the magazine he’d founded, Recoil.
Colt’s attitude problem *is* due to mismanagement and stupidity. HK *does* have a customer service problem as most German companies do, but they’re selling all the models and types they legally can to civilians and not pulling models or trying to run off civilian buyers. Puts them way above Colt’s virtue signaling.
I should also mention that I don’t own any product from either company. Colt is overpriced substandard junk and HKs are just plain overpriced.
I've owned several Colt handguns over the years (sold them all). I've never owned an HK - always felt like there were alternatives available, that were as good or better than HK products, and a lot more affordable (for example, I've owned several FALs).
You mentioned the lack of Colt polymer handguns; seems like some of the All American 2000s had polymer frames. Maybe if Colt hadn't messed with the original Knight-Stoner design (which reportedly had a better trigger, wasn't "butt ugly", etc.), and had maintained decent QC, it would have been a successful design...
I bow to your superior foresight and willpower and I resolve to never make such a heinous mistake again. :)
Yes, but they didn’t, and they took the wrong lesson from it - that polymer frames weren’t going to work (because if Colt couldn’t make it work, nobody could -rolleyes-) and that high capacity modern pistols weren’t a thing (confirmed to them by the AWB). They then tried one last time to make a modern pistol with the Colt Z40, and they tanked that one out too (though the gun was actually good that time) then decided to stop trying instead of working on their competence.
Ol’ boy was pretty impressed with the new lockwork.
Never mind. I see Squantos beat me to it.
Just think they're not as stout as S&Wor Ruger.
Like I said I would like to shoot a SAA,maybe even own one.
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