I have only held a Python once in my life. Never pulled the trigger. Never got to feel the smoothness that everyone raves about. The closest thing I have is a Smith and Wesson Model 686 (one of the first, no dash and number) Distinguished Combat Magnum. It looks like a Python if you cover up the logo.
I had the chance to buy one a few years ago for a fraction of what they are selling for now, but I've almost always had a .357 revolver of some kind, and at the time they weren't off the charts crazy expensive as they are now.
So, I want one, but not because all my gun buddies want one. I want one just to have and experience, not to throw in the safe with gloved hands and take out to fondle occasionally and show my friends (before you even say it...guffaw.)
Any of y'all have Python fever or own one? Got one ya want to let me have for a couple hundred bucks? Heehee.
My next big ticket gun purchase will be a Python or a nicely documented WW2 era 1911 (preferably an Ithaca, or maybe a Rand).
They made a ton of those damned Pythons. Besides some milsurp rifles and handguns, it's one of the few guns I can think of that was produced in abundance yet demands $5,000 for a prime example. I don't need a "as new in the box" Python, just a decent one that hasn't been beat severely, but isn't so exquisitely conditioned that I would be afraid to throw a box of .38 specials down the barrel once a month. So if ya got one and are a nice OSU guy that needs a down payment on a new car for the wife, let me know
I had the chance to buy one a few years ago for a fraction of what they are selling for now, but I've almost always had a .357 revolver of some kind, and at the time they weren't off the charts crazy expensive as they are now.
So, I want one, but not because all my gun buddies want one. I want one just to have and experience, not to throw in the safe with gloved hands and take out to fondle occasionally and show my friends (before you even say it...guffaw.)
Any of y'all have Python fever or own one? Got one ya want to let me have for a couple hundred bucks? Heehee.
My next big ticket gun purchase will be a Python or a nicely documented WW2 era 1911 (preferably an Ithaca, or maybe a Rand).
They made a ton of those damned Pythons. Besides some milsurp rifles and handguns, it's one of the few guns I can think of that was produced in abundance yet demands $5,000 for a prime example. I don't need a "as new in the box" Python, just a decent one that hasn't been beat severely, but isn't so exquisitely conditioned that I would be afraid to throw a box of .38 specials down the barrel once a month. So if ya got one and are a nice OSU guy that needs a down payment on a new car for the wife, let me know