My late grandfather passed one on to my father. It looks just like this one. I have quite a bit of experience with firearms, and I have never handled a piece as sweet as that Colt Python. Absolutely beautiful and buttery smooth precision. Nothing else like it. And man those 357s are TRUCKIN'! Slapping that steel hard. Love the round. Love the gun even more. Great video as always, sir.
The Colt Python was considered the finest revolver made, some say the finest firearm ever made, for decades. I still say it is the best revolver ever, except for my S&W 29 .44 magnum.
Hello again You are the first person to shoot the colt . 357 python in my 73 years with one hand and have groups like that ! Congrats ! my hats off to you . Skip
Some day if I ever become wealthy I would love to up sticks and move to the U.S. My love of classic arms can never be for filled in Defenceless England. I envy you guys who have the freedom to own and use these wonderful pieces.
I hope you can get yourself over here! I lived in England 15 years as a "Yank". When I got back to America I built up a fine collection of handguns and rifles. I own a fine collection of Colts and S&W's, H&K's and SIG's amongst many other firearms. Hurray for the USA!
Just do it ( Allen love shack) life is too short! Live it , you can't take anything with you when you go! We need more gun loving bible totem free people over here.
Thanks for a very fine video. I'm lucky to own two Python's a vintage 1969 and a mint condition 1979 both with 6" barrel lengths and Colt's standard wood grips. Two of my other favorites revolvers are the S&W Model 19-4 and my 29-10.
Well, John wrote about it a few years back, I think it was in "American Handgunner". He began feeling pains in his wrist, went to a specialist and the x-rays showed his wrist bones had tiny fissures. I believe he had to get an operation later on and he can't fire heavy loads on a regular basis. I had a similar problem with my 4" Model 29 that kept me out of the range for a year. Anaconda was not made by S&W. It was manufactured by Colt and most parts were investment casts, just like the Ruger.
Thanks Mike. I enjoy all your submissions. I remembered to "like" this one. I want to remind everyone to remember to click the "like" button. I've been guilty of not doing it but I'm trying to remember to take a second and click "Like" when it's something I really like.
I've got one just like that and when I bought it, I felt like I had paid a premium price...more than I wanted too, but less than I had seen others go for. Now, it's worth so much more! i won't part with it though...it's one of a kind for sure! I love it!
Bought one late 1970's paid $725 Canadian the last price I saw was over $1200 if you can find one. Love it, has a special place in my cabinet and will never sell it.
357 as a man stopper is sufficient. If I am going into bear country 44magnum is as small as I would want to take. That being said I have taken a few deer with the 44 magnum. One shot dropped them in a there tracks with 240 gr. soft points. Never had a 357 until 8 years ago. Enjoy it immensely. Own one Ruger security six and one Ruger Gp100 . Real work horses. The Colt Python is a beautiful revolver but sadly not made anymore and used prices if found are astronomical for most people me included. Thank you for showing and shooting these revolvers!
Worst thing about this gun IS THAT THEY STOPPED MAKING THEM ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO!!! To this day, I still think it's the best revolver ever made (as far as .357s go, ftm). Perfection, indeed. Hope it makes a comeback someday... ;-)
Finest revolver of the 20th Century hands-down. I remember as a kid watching "Dirty Harry" in "Magnum Force" and although the Model 29 ruled supreme it was aptly challenged by the Colt Python carried by the dirty Cop played by David Soul. Both impeccable works of Art! Merry Christmas to All!
Beautiful and well made gun. Accurate to boot judging from the video (minus the flyer that missed Roy's nads.) I just wish Colt could have made a cylinder release that worked "correctly" It just always seemed backwards to me, well because, it is.
Very nice Mike! After seeing the movie "Electra Glide in Blue" where Robert Blake carried a nickle plated 6" Python I just had to have one. In my opinion it is the most beautiful handgun ever made. This is one they will be prying from my cold, dead hands... BTW, the famous, or rather infamous, anti-gun statue at the U.N. headquarters in N.Y.C. is a Colt Python with it's barrel twisted in a knot. I think you meant to say you were shooting 125 grain bullets, not 325. ;-)
Poor Mr. Beliveau, it was the little things, at first as he got on in years, like 325 gr 357 ammo. Then he cast doubt on the fabulous 44 with the Keith 429421. Shortly after he forgot the names of his kids. He could get by by calling his wife Hon.......but he remembered his dogs name and was always a great one handed pistol shooter.
I bought a Python from a guy walking around at a LGS 3 weeks ago ( 4 inch barrel made in 1975) It is truly a work of art in the blue steel revolver world. I would say it's a strong 95% gun, maybe a 98%er, with no turn ring on the cylinder. I'm dying to shoot it, but given its condition, I'm not going to. Oh well, I guess I now own my first safe queen.....
@@chrisjeannebroxton1934 Exactly. I bought one that seemed to be brand new. Not a scuff on the hammer. It had a little speck of rust on the trigger and under the trigger guard but other than that, unfired. I ended up looking at it for a couple months and now I have about 400 rounds down range with it. You'd have to be insane to have just one Python and not shoot it. I can see if you have a couple collectors peices, but if you find yourself fortunate enough to own at least 1, shoot that thing. The Python was meant to be shot. I feel bad for the guys that put the Python to rest due to money reasons. You can't take it with you. And someone will exploit that beautiful revolver some day. Like taking a girls virginity. Yeah its a sexy ass revolver but half the beauty is in that action and just shooting it. I've heard that that the Python starts to break-in really nice after a few thousand rounds too. Time will tell. The Python sure is a sweetie so its easy to see ones dilemma about turning it into a safe queen. They just don't make them like they use too.
That's some really good shooting, Mike. About 1976 I waked into a gun shop in Norwich, CT intending to gift myself with a 6" Python... and can you believe it, the counterman talked me into an 8 3/8" M27 instead? I guess he didn't work on commission. :-) I still have never owned a Python.
Everything said about the Python re: quality is correct. However, a friend acquired a Python in the 1970’s, and that particular gun, although fine shooting jacketed ammo, was a nightmare shooting lead reloads. Even at moderate velocities the bore would lead up so as to obscure the rifling within 15-20 rounds. Slugging the bore yielded .355 or so, rather than .357. He traded it.
I have a 6" Python I bought new in 1975 for, I think it was around $250.00. If memory serves me correctly active duty military could have bought a Python from the Armed Forces Exchange during the Vietnam War for around $100.00. Even though I am a true Dan Wesson 357 believer, the Python trumps it. The Python and the Model 29 44 magnum are, in my opinion, the two finest revolvers ever made.
I think that Colt Python is the finest among all 357 magnum . It's so easy to make the difference with a 686, GP100 or else . But time is gone and S&W created Performance Center . In Europe, we have the famous MR73 which was made by Manurhin and made nowadays by "Chapuis Armes" . This gun is sensitive with dust . In france, when Colt discontinued the Python and Anaconda, it was a drama .
+Kevin Mills I am 48 and I can pay for almost any gun on this world! But... I live in Brazil and my government hates gun owners since, at least, 1996. If you live in US, you are lucky. Just wait a little.
What did happen to John Taffin? I know that before I do a range secession with my 44 magnum it "Celebrex time" in preparation for some shoulder pain. Also, I never fired an Anaconda; S&W was doing casting back then?
I'm green with envy and foaming at the mouth! Tomorrow I'll take my old Colt New Service in .44-40 to the range and blow off some steam! BTW I have a S&W 29 made in 1978, a good solid gun from the time they knew how to make them, but in my book, it takes second place to a Python.
Just picked up the exact same thing mine is a vintage 1970 in oh I would say 90% and that’s me being very critical of it however I believe the stuff I’m being so critical of isn’t that bad like a very small mark were the cylinder swings out and hits the frame also some very very small spots on the left side at the top like to pin sized spots on the top
Which other ones would you consider could compete with the Python as the finest revolver ever made? (Maybe the Colt shooting Master, the colt .357, the S&W Triple Lock, The Korth, which ones?)
@@duelist1954 Thanks for your answer. I had never tried a Colt .357 but I always wanted. They said it was the Python of its time. Only few years before the Python. I am a big fan of the model 19 too. (Forgive my bad English)
Yes I do. I find the .357 to be more practical and precise. You can practice a lot with a .357 without any consequences, which is not the case with .44 mag full loads. Just read what happened to John Taffin. As for the Anaconda I would not dream to compare with the S&W, which is a fine weapon while the Anaconda is an investment casting piece of shit. I have several revolvers in different calibers which are fine for range shooting, but when I'm headed for the bush I take my 686.
Well, I have a colt cobra that was made in 1973. I know because my dad bought it in '73. And a colt cobra was used to kill Oswald. And that happened before '86 haha
Is there a reason why Colt doesn't still make (or bring back) the Python or some of the other guns in the "Family of Snakes"? I know that the collectors of these guns wouldn't be happy! But there would be a high demand for them and I think that they would sell like crazy; especially the Python and the Anaconda, with them showing up in popular TV shows, movies and games these days. A whole lot of the new and younger shooters didn't even know what a Colt Python was until they saw Sheriff Rick Grimes using one on The Walking Dead"
The guys who hand fitted them are long since retired and many are no longer with us. Real shame they couldn't pass this knowledge on to the next generation of gun maker(s). Then you have the simple economics of it for, lets be honest, not that much demand. How many of us can afford a new $4,000.00 revolver? It would be cool though.
I owned a Python and a Diamondback until that Scottish loon shot those kids in a school gym and we lost our handguns here in the UK. Happy shooting to all you guys in the US.
My late grandfather passed one on to my father. It looks just like this one. I have quite a bit of experience with firearms, and I have never handled a piece as sweet as that Colt Python. Absolutely beautiful and buttery smooth precision. Nothing else like it. And man those 357s are TRUCKIN'! Slapping that steel hard. Love the round. Love the gun even more. Great video as always, sir.
The Colt Python was considered the finest revolver made, some say the finest firearm ever made, for decades. I still say it is the best revolver ever, except for my S&W 29 .44 magnum.
Hello again You are the first person to shoot the colt . 357 python in my 73 years with one hand
and have groups like that ! Congrats ! my hats off to you . Skip
Some day if I ever become wealthy I would love to up sticks and move to the U.S. My love of classic arms can never be for filled in Defenceless England. I envy you guys who have the freedom to own and use these wonderful pieces.
I hope you can get yourself over here! I lived in England 15 years as a "Yank". When I got back to America I built up a fine collection of handguns and rifles. I own a fine collection of Colts and S&W's, H&K's and SIG's amongst many other firearms. Hurray for the USA!
VTSRIK
You can collect quite a lot over here actually.
Just do it ( Allen love shack) life is too short! Live it , you can't take anything with you when you go! We need more gun loving bible totem free people over here.
Thanks for a very fine video. I'm lucky to own two Python's a vintage 1969 and a mint condition 1979 both with 6" barrel lengths and Colt's standard wood grips. Two of my other favorites revolvers are the S&W Model 19-4 and my 29-10.
Well, John wrote about it a few years back, I think it was in "American Handgunner". He began feeling pains in his wrist, went to a specialist and the x-rays showed his wrist bones had tiny fissures. I believe he had to get an operation later on and he can't fire heavy loads on a regular basis. I had a similar problem with my 4" Model 29 that kept me out of the range for a year. Anaconda was not made by S&W. It was manufactured by Colt and most parts were investment casts, just like the Ruger.
The action on the Python is like butter.
Glad I got mine back when the prices were still reasonable.
Thanks Mike. I enjoy all your submissions. I remembered to "like" this one. I want to remind everyone to remember to click the "like" button. I've been guilty of not doing it but I'm trying to remember to take a second and click "Like" when it's something I really like.
Smoothest double action I've ever shot. Shooting single action there are others as good or better. thanks for the video!
The Colt Python just wreaks of quality just looking at it, thanks Mike and i must Say you are the best gun guy on yt.
Nice gun I got a colt trooper.
I've got one just like that and when I bought it, I felt like I had paid a premium price...more than I wanted too, but less than I had seen others go for. Now, it's worth so much more! i won't part with it though...it's one of a kind for sure! I love it!
Bought one late 1970's paid $725 Canadian the last price I saw was over $1200 if you can find one. Love it, has a special place in my cabinet and will never sell it.
357 as a man stopper is sufficient. If I am going into bear country 44magnum is as small as I would want to take. That being said I have taken a few deer with the 44 magnum. One shot dropped them in a there tracks with 240 gr. soft points. Never had a 357 until 8 years ago. Enjoy it immensely. Own one Ruger security six and one Ruger Gp100 . Real work horses. The Colt Python is a beautiful revolver but sadly not made anymore and used prices if found are astronomical for most people me included. Thank you for showing and shooting these revolvers!
Worst thing about this gun IS THAT THEY STOPPED MAKING THEM ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO!!! To this day, I still think it's the best revolver ever made (as far as .357s go, ftm). Perfection, indeed. Hope it makes a comeback someday...
;-)
Nice Colt and good shooting!
Great video Mike! The Python is a awesome revolver!
Great video , the Python is my dream gun .
Love your videos, thanks!
Thanks for sharing that classic with us! Evil Roy just never seems to learn... lol
Great shooting Mike. Great gun!
221 likes 0 dislikes because this video was perfect
Great vid. Wouldn't trade my Pythons for anything.
Finest revolver of the 20th Century hands-down. I remember as a kid watching "Dirty Harry" in "Magnum Force" and although the Model 29 ruled supreme it was aptly challenged by the Colt Python carried by the dirty Cop played by David Soul. Both impeccable works of Art! Merry Christmas to All!
Evil Roy jumps when he gets shot with that thing :D nice groups as well :)
Beautiful and well made gun. Accurate to boot judging from the video (minus the flyer that missed Roy's nads.) I just wish Colt could have made a cylinder release that worked "correctly" It just always seemed backwards to me, well because, it is.
Very nice Mike! After seeing the movie "Electra Glide in Blue" where Robert Blake carried a nickle plated 6" Python I just had to have one. In my opinion it is the most beautiful handgun ever made. This is one they will be prying from my cold, dead hands...
BTW, the famous, or rather infamous, anti-gun statue at the U.N. headquarters in N.Y.C. is a Colt Python with it's barrel twisted in a knot.
I think you meant to say you were shooting 125 grain bullets, not 325. ;-)
hell of a shot
Poor Mr. Beliveau, it was the little things, at first as he got on in years, like 325 gr 357 ammo. Then he cast doubt on the fabulous 44 with the Keith 429421. Shortly after he forgot the names of his kids. He could get by by calling his wife Hon.......but he remembered his dogs name and was always a great one handed pistol shooter.
beautiful revolver and great shooting!
Love a good revolver. Nice shooting.
Lovely revolver.
Colt Phyton is just the other only way of saying Perfection.
I bought a Python from a guy walking around at a LGS 3 weeks ago ( 4 inch barrel made in 1975) It is truly a work of art in the blue steel revolver world. I would say it's a strong 95% gun, maybe a 98%er, with no turn ring on the cylinder. I'm dying to shoot it, but given its condition, I'm not going to. Oh well, I guess I now own my first safe queen.....
+Keith Williams if it is 95% you ought to shoot it at least once. If it was unfired I might feel differently.
I have a Python Elite, shoot it you won’t regret it if you do... You will regret it if you don’t.
@@chrisjeannebroxton1934 Exactly. I bought one that seemed to be brand new. Not a scuff on the hammer. It had a little speck of rust on the trigger and under the trigger guard but other than that, unfired. I ended up looking at it for a couple months and now I have about 400 rounds down range with it. You'd have to be insane to have just one Python and not shoot it. I can see if you have a couple collectors peices, but if you find yourself fortunate enough to own at least 1, shoot that thing. The Python was meant to be shot. I feel bad for the guys that put the Python to rest due to money reasons. You can't take it with you. And someone will exploit that beautiful revolver some day. Like taking a girls virginity. Yeah its a sexy ass revolver but half the beauty is in that action and just shooting it. I've heard that that the Python starts to break-in really nice after a few thousand rounds too. Time will tell. The Python sure is a sweetie so its easy to see ones dilemma about turning it into a safe queen. They just don't make them like they use too.
Thanks. Hard to beat. Good shooting by the way.
I miss Colt's DA revolvers.
Great channel we subbed! Beautiful revolver and great shooting!
Great video. Thanks Mike.
That's some really good shooting, Mike.
About 1976 I waked into a gun shop in Norwich, CT intending to gift myself with a 6" Python... and can you believe it, the counterman talked me into an 8 3/8" M27 instead? I guess he didn't work on commission. :-) I still have never owned a Python.
Everything said about the Python re: quality is correct. However, a friend acquired a Python in the 1970’s, and that particular gun, although fine shooting jacketed ammo, was a nightmare shooting lead reloads. Even at moderate velocities the bore would lead up so as to obscure the rifling within 15-20 rounds. Slugging the bore yielded .355 or so, rather than .357. He traded it.
It is indeed a classic!
Ahhhh Mike, ya had to say it........ knocking my beloved 44 mag. (I preferred Jack O'conner to ol Elmer) Thanks again for the Saturday entertainment.
I have a 6" Python I bought new in 1975 for, I think it was around $250.00. If memory serves me correctly active duty military could have bought a Python from the Armed Forces Exchange during the Vietnam War for around $100.00. Even though I am a true Dan Wesson 357 believer, the Python trumps it. The Python and the Model 29 44 magnum are, in my opinion, the two finest revolvers ever made.
I thought you missed all the clays. Great shooting.
like always. great video..
Nice shooting
Evil Roy never learns... Hello from Brazil!
That shaving cream can is on its way to mars. Perhaps we can get a pic of it from the Hubble.
It is sad to get old...LOL
I think that Colt Python is the finest among all 357 magnum . It's so easy to make the difference with a 686, GP100 or else . But time is gone and S&W created Performance Center . In Europe, we have the famous MR73 which was made by Manurhin and made nowadays by "Chapuis Armes" . This gun is sensitive with dust . In france, when Colt discontinued the Python and Anaconda, it was a drama .
being 16 and having no job, the best i can do right now is drool on my laptop.
+Kevin Mills I am 48 and I can pay for almost any gun on this world! But... I live in Brazil and my government hates gun owners since, at least, 1996. If you live in US, you are lucky. Just wait a little.
What did happen to John Taffin? I know that before I do a range secession with my 44 magnum it "Celebrex time" in preparation for some shoulder pain. Also, I never fired an Anaconda; S&W was doing casting back then?
I'm green with envy and foaming at the mouth! Tomorrow I'll take my old Colt New Service in .44-40 to the range and blow off some steam! BTW I have a S&W 29 made in 1978, a good solid gun from the time they knew how to make them, but in my book, it takes second place to a Python.
If I might make a recommendation could you compare this to your colt trooper?
nah he's just really good
Great video. I've been on the fence about buying one since they're so expensive. I may have to bite he bullet as they say and pony up the cash.
Doesn't get any better
Just picked up the exact same thing mine is a vintage 1970 in oh I would say 90% and that’s me being very critical of it however I believe the stuff I’m being so critical of isn’t that bad like a very small mark were the cylinder swings out and hits the frame also some very very small spots on the left side at the top like to pin sized spots on the top
How much can I find one for? I bet even a used one cost a great deal of money.
How many cameras have you put a bullet through during your "Bad Guys View" ?
Charles Frazier None yet...(knock on wood)...
:)
Which other ones would you consider could compete with the Python as the finest revolver ever made? (Maybe the Colt shooting Master, the colt .357, the S&W Triple Lock, The Korth, which ones?)
I actually prefer the Colt .357 to the Python. Never shot the Korth. A well tuned S&W Model 19 is also a wonderful wheel gun.
@@duelist1954 Thanks for your answer. I had never tried a Colt .357 but I always wanted. They said it was the Python of its time. Only few years before the Python. I am a big fan of the model 19 too. (Forgive my bad English)
I want a video showing your personal favorite guns.
Now let's try dual wielding
Now where did that can go?
Agreed!!!
Yes I do. I find the .357 to be more practical and precise. You can practice a lot with a .357 without any consequences, which is not the case with .44 mag full loads. Just read what happened to John Taffin. As for the Anaconda I would not dream to compare with the S&W, which is a fine weapon while the Anaconda is an investment casting piece of shit. I have several revolvers in different calibers which are fine for range shooting, but when I'm headed for the bush I take my 686.
Wasn't the Cobra the first in the snake line? I think it was produced in 1950.
+Gunsforfreedom Nope. '86 I think.
Well, I have a colt cobra that was made in 1973. I know because my dad bought it in '73. And a colt cobra was used to kill Oswald. And that happened before '86 haha
Don't know then. Never had one, I just read it somewhere. That's why you don't trust the internet.
How much punch does a .357 have compared to .45?
Hi Mike, 325gr .357 Mag??????????????
325gr 357 rounds? You must be filming another review with a .454 casull and or 500 S&W this same day!
Nice 6" snake
325 grain 357mag rounds i dont think so
+rooferjake 125 gr actually, he was a bit excited
Cool :)
325 gr.!?! :) NICE REVOLVER!
Isn't the 180 gr the heaviest bullet weight in .357 mag.?
It is pretty close, I don’t know of any factory offerings bigger than 180 but ,you could definitely load bigger.
what the hell possesed colt to discontinue wtf I'll never own one now
cole purvis to make the gun Legendary
Red Car
Uh no. Colt discontinued the Python as a cost cutting move.
Where can I get me some of that 325 grain ammo?
lovely :)
125...so shoot me...
good gun i want to buy 357
this guy's got aimbots
Did you say 325 grain?
Is there a reason why Colt doesn't still make (or bring back) the Python or some of the other guns in the "Family of Snakes"? I know that the collectors of these guns wouldn't be happy! But there would be a high demand for them and I think that they would sell like crazy; especially the Python and the Anaconda, with them showing up in popular TV shows, movies and games these days. A whole lot of the new and younger shooters didn't even know what a Colt Python was until they saw Sheriff Rick Grimes using one on The Walking Dead"
The guys who hand fitted them are long since retired and many are no longer with us. Real shame they couldn't pass this knowledge on to the next generation of gun maker(s). Then you have the simple economics of it for, lets be honest, not that much demand. How many of us can afford a new $4,000.00 revolver? It would be cool though.
+Pedro Fanning well those unions are good for working hard Americans and I for one am willing to pay a little extra for that
You're really comparing a .44 magnum to a .357? Wouldn't it be better to compare the Model 29 and the Anaconda?
Trade me jobs? Please? I'm curious how long it takes you to make each video.
Ouch, it's even worse than I first thought.
No ear plugs???
I always use ear plugs. You have to look closely. The ones I'm using in this video fit inside the ear and really seal it closed
What about safety goggles?
325 grain.??????????;
Mike, when you shot the Python double action, you hit Evil Roy in the balls. What is up with that?
I owned a Python and a Diamondback until that Scottish loon shot those kids in a school gym and we lost our handguns here in the UK.
Happy shooting to all you guys in the US.
325 grain? LOL
Travis Guerra .Yeah, I had to rewind that one.
It may be the finest but it's not the most reliable to trust your life to. That the primer may go off is iffy!!
Colt claims the new python is better??? I am not so sure about that.
1350000 and 1 !
Smith and wesson revolvers are nice, but for some reason, they just dont feel as nice as colt.
Gross! Who would want to...you?