Posted: 6/8/2017 10:49:23 PM EDT
| I just don't get it. I like the Python but the prices are so stupid I just can't understand any of it. If it so beloved then why in the hell does Colt not just bring it back??? They are sucking for sales. It seems logical that such a winner and sought after gun they could probably sell them retail for around $1500 and they would fly off the shelf. Either Colt is one of the worst run gun companies or they have really stupid management. |
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1. The skilled people who fitted them are long retired. 2. The time to build them as they were labor intensive kills profits. 3. I doubt all the tooling still exists. So there are some Pythons floating around out there that mechanically looks like a Python, but with a parked finish and shitty built job. I forget what they are called, but not Python. It is conceivable they will bring back other guns. They may have one even called the Python, but it won't be a real one. It will be a cnc machined gun that will probably be built well, and shoot well, but it won't be a Python. |
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I don't get the stupid high prices either. I have owned three Pythons since 2000. I never paid more than $600 for any of them. If it wasn't for the Walking Dead TV show, you would probably still them for under $1500 all day. |
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Colt quit making them because people quit buying them. For all the blathering the Python generates, i don't know a soul that owns one. I don't know anyone that is even remotely interested in owning one. If you watch gunbroker there's typically 300 to 400 Pythons for sale. Most of them just sit there.
In the highly unlikely event Colt resumes production, expect to pay well north of $2k. Retail on the last ones Colt built was around $1,500 as I recall. |
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No parts, no machines to make them, so they'd need to design from the ground up. They'd need to train new folks to fit these new revolvers. They may do something similar, they've got the Cobra afterall, but who knows.
I worked at a shop when they introduced the Python Elite, all those guys that said Colt should make a new Python then bitched and moaned about the price and quality and everything else. They sold like crap, though now they're pretty expensive too. Ignoring everything they'd need to get a Python up and rolling, look at the Single Action Army. They DO make them, they have parts, they have machines. They can sell all they can make, but they don't have the capacity to make enough of them for the market. If they can't increase production on a current product to meet the demand, adding a new product will have some corners cut. |
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So there are some Pythons floating around out there that mechanically looks like a Python, but with a parked finish and shitty built job. I forget what they are called, but not Python. |
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Colt quit making them because people quit buying them. For all the blathering the Python generates, i don't know a soul that owns one. I don't know anyone that is even remotely interested in owning one. If you watch gunbroker there's typically 300 to 400 Pythons for sale. Most of them just sit there. In the highly unlikely event Colt resumes production, expect to pay well north of $2k. Retail on the last ones Colt built was around $1,500 as I recall. |
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I am old enough to remember when the Python was in production and this is s true statement. They were and are good guns that were very nicely finished but they are not really the holy grail that many make them out to be. I would be very surprised if Colt restarted Python production. Quoted:
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Colt quit making them because people quit buying them. For all the blathering the Python generates, i don't know a soul that owns one. I don't know anyone that is even remotely interested in owning one. If you watch gunbroker there's typically 300 to 400 Pythons for sale. Most of them just sit there. In the highly unlikely event Colt resumes production, expect to pay well north of $2k. Retail on the last ones Colt built was around $1,500 as I recall. The drop in demand was almost entirely due to hype. Colt could easily sell 10,000 Pythons at $3500 a copy, but there is nobody to build them. There are people paying $2500 for a Glick, but they don't require anything more than a CNC operator. |
