Pythons - made of gold?
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Ah the good ol' days.
The good old days indeed ; I remember many moons ago when I did my R-PAL ; one of the demostration / test guns was a Colt Python in new condition . When I questioned the instructor as to why he was using such a nice revolver as a test gun , he replied that it was not his , that it had been turned in by a private owner for destruction , and then inturn was re-assigned as a test gun for instructors giving the R-PAL course......I often wonder what ever happened to that revolver.....it was a nicey...
Last I checked Colt wasn't making anymore of them...the good ones are worth the bucks to those that have the cash.
That's what they said about 1959 Les Paul flametops when the went over $100K in the late 90s. Some of them touch $500K today
Or that old '69 SuperBee with the 440 in it that I bought and thrashed the guts out of for a summer....$2000 was a fortune to pay in 1984! If I had it now........
I sold a 1958 Gibson Flying V in 2003 for $98K usd. I could sell the same guitar for today for $400K usd easy.
There are people who collect wine and pay $20K a bottle and never drink the stuff
The climb of the snake guns is far from over.
There are people who collect wine and pay $20K a bottle and never drink the stuff
The climb of the snake guns is far from over.
How do you think the WHOLE vintage guitar thing got started? Mike Bloomfield came out on an album cover with a picture using a Les Paul sunburst and the price more than doubled over night.
That was in the late 60s. In the 80s , with all the "new wave keyboard music" the prices of vintage guitars leveled off and the Les Paul sunburst hung around $6K-$7K for about 3-4 years. Then Slash came out on the cover of Guitar Player magazine with one and the prices AGAIN doubled over night.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=449876298
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No doubt, but it will be interesting to see if the recent wtb frenzy (which seems to have doubled prices in the last month) created a bubble or established a new baseline, and if the Canadian market can sustain US prices. All good either way. If you like em want them and can afford them... And as has been stated - pythons aren't being made.
Personally, never cared to own one when they were only $750.
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Me neither........ It's only when they started performing as good investments that I became interested in owning them and now that I do, I regret that I didn't earlier. To my eye, the fit and finish of a Python is head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to pure esthetics. That being said, there was a time I would have never considered collecting guns. I thought "if you don't shoot it, what good is it?" At that time I would have never thought about attaching a premium to an unshot NIB old gun. I guess I have jumped the fence and become a true collector. I only have one out of my gang that I call a "shooter". The rest are safe queens.
As far as the prices "doubling in the last month" goes, a person can ask what ever they choose but if a desirable, collectable gun sits there for sale for a long time and no one buys it, it's usually a good indication that it is overpriced. A free market will bear what it can bear. In my perception, the prices in the Python market seem to have doubled in the last 2-3 years. Yes it was quick ..........supply and demand.
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Yes they can be expensive, but reasonable ones are out there. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of patience and some searching with lots of luck. Enjoy
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/847613-Show-your-PYTHONs-amp-Snakes-Here
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/847613-Show-your-PYTHONs-amp-Snakes-Here
Decent video although it is a little biased towards S&W and understandably so.
I'm really surprised he didn't know what to call the cylinder release latch but what is most surprising is he doesn't talk about what most would consider the best and most important feature that gave the Python it's reputation for great accuracy and that is the cylinder lock up. It is the only gun of the 3 that uses the hand not only to turn the cylinder to the next chamber but also to lock it in place to the point it doesn't even move .001 of an inch. It's what's called the "Colt vault tight lockup". Once the trigger is pulled, the cylinder is locked solid.
