just bought colt pyton

[fatercat]

just bought a colt python from dinny. i have a S&W 28-2. have i fallen to the dark side?? oh lord.

[Mohawk]

JMHO.... I have never heard of a Python "out doing" a Smith Model 28. Working range sessions years ago we had Pythons spitting lead to the side, disrupting range mates to the left and right.... Bad timing. No timing issues with the 28. My 28 is 53 years old and still kills deer. You are not on the dark side, just the other side..... I like the Colts, just don't choose them against a Smith. Nothing in particular, just preference based on experience.

[Slowpoke Slim]

Yeah, that Colt is so inferior, you should not even be mentioning it on the S&W forum. Matter of fact, you should just box that thing up and send it to me, to dispose of for you. No really, I don't mind, you don't even have to thank me...

OK, seriously, I've never seen a "bad" Python. I guess it's theoretically possible, but I doubt it. I've handled probably about a dozen over the years, of various years of production, and I've been able to fire a few of them. I've never experienced or heard anyone else's experiences like Mohawk was referring to...

Maybe he's just jealous? You know, deep, way deep down inside?

 

I have the Python's big brother, an Anaconda in 45 Colt. That gun has been a tank. It's as buttery smooth today as the day I bought it, and it's pushing 20 years old. Thousands of rounds through it, no problems, some of them "Ruger +P" level loads too.

I'd still like to have a Python myself. A nice 6" blued one would probably still fit in my safe. I wouldn't throw out my 6" 19 to make room for it, but I'd probably put them on the same shelf. I bet they'd get along just fine.

[Mohawk]

Nope, not jealous. Just what was reported to me.     IMHO, they always had "cosmetic challenges", and when the range reports came in......... Colt DA's seemed to have faded away. Could they not compete with S&W? Apparently not.

[boatboy]

JMHO.... I have never heard of a Python "out doing" a Smith Model 28. Working range sessions years ago we had Pythons spitting lead to the side, disrupting range mates to the left and right.... Bad timing. No timing issues with the 28. My 28 is 53 years old and still kills deer. You are not on the dark side, just the other side..... I like the Colts, just don't choose them against a Smith. Nothing in particular, just preference based on experience.

I like Colts, they just kinda suck  HAHA


Hank

[Dee]

When I was a youngster, I wanted a Python for a duty pistol so bad I could taste it. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, looks like the classy Python. I eventually owned two, on separate occasions. My first one, shocked me, as I didn't realize the difference that the LONG ACTION made in rapid fire police training. It was way slower than a Smith in these drills. Plus with the leaf spring action, the trigger pull weight STACKS as the hammer comes back.  It was so discouraging I sold it and went back to a Model 19 Smith.
Later the "lure of the look" of the Python got hold of me again, just in time for another Instructor's school which lasted 2 weeks. Firing almost 800 rounds a day got my attention for good this time. Although I was one of the best in the class, I was constantly whipped by the faster actions of the Smiths, and on rapid fire with speed loaders, I found out the hard way that the Colt once hot, would lock up due to tolerances being so close. It was a great pistol, but not for fightin. At least for me.
That first weekend, I got to go home, and the following Monday I showed up with a brand new Model 19 Smith with one of my own action jobs. Now I was back up to speed, and finished in the very top of my class.
But as I said: Nothin looks classier than a Python.

[Graybeard]

I've owned three Pythons, one Diamond Back, a Cobra and a Det. Special and have none of them any longer. I've yet to see a Colt outshoot a S&W and I did a LOT of competition handgun shooting in my time.

They look good and feel nice and do have at least as nice a trigger as the S&W but they are delicate and finicky and just weren't for me.