[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Colt Python Value - Update Pg. 2 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/3/2011 6:33:20 PM EDT
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A local gentleman is selling a Colt Python (6", blued version). What is the current market value for them? I am trying to get the serial # and see if he has the original woods grips. Without the wood grips how much would it be worth?  |
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Quoted: There is a thread that was floating around the last few days about what firearm you wish you had or something like that... One member here has been looking for a 6" python for a while. I guess they are rare? They are not as rare as some lead you to believe. If you want one there are plenty for sale. Those handguns have always commanded high prices. Even from the factory. The new ones , I think they were called the elite. Colt made them a couple of years. Those are insane for pricing if you can find one. The older ones are much easier to find. |
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Quoted: Does anyone know if those grips are the originals? I thought they call came with wood grips. I dont know for a fact that that particlar weapon came with wood grips. I however did own a colt python back in mid to late 80s and it had those rubber grips like that. It didnt have the old Colt wood grips. I purchased it new in the box so there was no possibility it was done by a 3rd party. |
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Asking price is $1k. I may go with a offer a little bit lower. Yeah that's what i was thinking. $900 otd would be nice. eta i paid $225 for mine back in the eighties. What a SWEET shooter. One handed even. Mine had the wood grips but i changed them out to something similar in the photo. |
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I have one that I bought new in 1980. Yeah, I'm old. Yes this post has zero value, since I'll never sell it. It's my wifes favorite handgun so she will never sell it either. After that, well I don't know. I doubt I'll be in a position to care. Mike I have my grandfather's which he bought in the year I was born (1961). It is the 4" version and he apparently carried it for his remaining years as a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff. He retired in 1969 or '70. It will never be sold. |
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Quoted: I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. I gave searched eBay and Gunbroker. Those woods grips go for over $200 just by themselves.  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. I gave searched eBay and Gunbroker. Those woods grips go for over $200 just by themselves. I hate them.  Run the rubber grips and have been meaning to buy something aftermarket. The checkering/logo tears up my thumb. I am also not a fan of the traditional style grips in general. They don't fit my hand. |
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I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. Well, you got the deal of the century!! 
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I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. I gave searched eBay and Gunbroker. Those woods grips go for over $200 just by themselves.
Hogue grips for Python, $10 at almost any gun show, wood grips, just hand over everything you brought. I have a 1949 Police Match, pretty much exactly the same as a Python save for the barrel and teeny grips. While I wanted to put wood Python grips on it, I wasn't spending that kind of dough, I ended up with a set of rubber one's that worked perfectly. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. Well, you got the deal of the century!! Thanks. I actually gave $1k for it, but quickly found it to be out of time. Between shipping and labor, it was $200 to get fixed. I managed to talk my co-worker, whom I bought it from, to throw a little extra money my way due to the troubles. So I call it $900 after it was all said and done. He sold it to me because he knew I was a shooter, not somebody that would turn around and sell it for a couple extra bucks. The Python is a fine shooter.
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I got a reply email from the seller. The serial number is PN0717X and it originally came with the rubber grips. I have been Googleing and it seems to be a mid "90's revolver. Does that seem correct? I gave $900 for about the same age Python, but in nickel, about a year ago. Came with original wood grips, as well as rubber. Well, you got the deal of the century!! Thanks. I actually gave $1k for it, but quickly found it to be out of time. Between shipping and labor, it was $200 to get fixed. I managed to talk my co-worker, whom I bought it from, to throw a little extra money my way due to the troubles. So I call it $900 after it was all said and done. He sold it to me because he knew I was a shooter, not somebody that would turn around and sell it for a couple extra bucks. The Python is a fine shooter. Oh, it was out of time........that changes things a little bit. You should have mailed it to me........I could have probably timed it for you. (And, of course, I would have had to test it out!! )
I got a good deal two years ago on a pristine 1966 Python for $1,200 from the gunshop owner I go to alot. They are really going up in price........almost ridiculously "up" in price IMHO. ETA: I go to the Colt Forum quite a bit and learned from the veterans there how to do normal timing adjustments. If you take your time and get the right info, it isn't all that hard. But you gotta go slow. |
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Quoted: Prices are way high- so high I don't shoot these: 1973 Python .357- paid $395.00 used in '74, 1975 Diamondback .22 bought new for $435.00: http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff380/usjet1/pair.jpg  |
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Asking price is $1k. I may go with a offer a little bit lower. You'd better buy it for $1k, because the next guy that knows about the revolver will pay that as fast as he can get the money out. Listen to AeroE. Here's a write-up about Pythons: The .357 Magnum Colt Python |
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Prices are way high- so high I don't shoot these: 1973 Python .357- paid $395.00 used in '74, 1975 Diamondback .22 bought new for $435.00: http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff380/usjet1/pair.jpg Those pistols are way too beautiful not to shoot. Shoot 'em. 
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Prices are way high- so high I don't shoot these: 1973 Python .357- paid $395.00 used in '74, 1975 Diamondback .22 bought new for $435.00: http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff380/usjet1/pair.jpg Those pistols are way too beautiful not to shoot. Shoot 'em. Oh, they've been shot- around 5-600–– through the Python, 1500 or so the Diamondback- the timing is so perfect on these old Colts that there is no "ringing" on the cylinders at all.. If they were all I had I wouldn't hesitate to take 'em out, but the values have just got so damn high.... |
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Does anyone know if those grips are the originals? I thought they call came with wood grips. some of the later-model ones came with the Pachmayr Presentation rubber grips with the Colt medallion.I nearly bought one in the early 90's, but the distributor didn't have exactly the version I wanted. ETA: i just read your post with the $1k mention. if you have the 1K, buy the gun; if you don't like it, you can sell it tomorrow for a $250 profit. 1K seems to me a smoking deal, if you want a Python. |
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Does anyone know if those grips are the originals? I thought they call came with wood grips. I dont know for a fact that that particlar weapon came with wood grips. I however did own a colt python back in mid to late 80s and it had those rubber grips like that. It didnt have the old Colt wood grips. I purchased it new in the box so there was no possibility it was done by a 3rd party. Same here. I bought mine in 1985 and it has those rubber grips as well. |
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Wood grips are no big deal. If the Model 29 I once tried had had Hogue grips I probably would have wound up buying it. The fascinating doughnut shaped fireball it produced wasn't enough to overcome the yips the recoil caused.
Here's a bit of obscure .357 Mag history.............. .........Ali returned to the United States in November 1966 to fight Cleveland "Big Cat" Williams in the Houston Astrodome. A year and a half before the fight, Williams had been shot in the stomach at point-blank range by a Texas policeman. As a result, Williams went into the fight missing one kidney, 10 feet of his small intestine, and with a shriveled left leg from nerve damage from the bullet. Ali beat Williams in three rounds.
Williams was shot with a .357 magnum. |
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If a 3 day cruise is worth 1k, 2 nights in Vegas 1k, a deductible 1k than a python is worth 10k
If you want a revolver thats on par with a $2500 1911 I would buy it. You can always buy it, shoot it and resell it for 1200 - 1400. No one should have to talk you into this at these prices.
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