We have seen many manufacturers switch to a two-piece barrel arrangement on revolvers to cut production costs, but that’s not so on the new Python. Also, the one-piece forged vent-rib barrel and recessed crown-classic Python design elements-were maintained. The new Pythons are compatible with holsters designed for the original, so size is nearly identical. While the new Pythons are faithful to the originals in many ways, they are not clones. The front sight fits into the barrel's integral rib and is secured by a pinned hex screw so it can be replaced. New Design The sights include a red ramp front and an adjustable rear. Finally, 16 years after Colt had discontinued production, the new guns were born. Prices for vintage examples rose significantly in the years that followed. I wasn’t the only one who wanted a Python. But when I finally came up with enough cash to buy my own, they had disappeared from the market. The judge’s bailiff, a retired New York state trooper, carried a four-inch blued Python with custom ironwood grips. Around the same time, I was a young prosecutor working in my hometown’s courthouse. And so, like many of the great sixguns, Python production ceased. Various other chamberings saw limited production over the years.īy the time the 1990s came around, though, the gun-buying public increasingly favored semiautomatics. 357 Magnum, although Target models were produced in. The first production Pythons left the factory in 1995. For 2022, Colt took things a step further, adding a stainless Python with a three-inch barrel to the mix. Barrels of 4.5 and 6 inches-both in stainless steel-were offered on the reimagined Python. This release was part of Colt’s broader move back into the double-action sixgun market, with new examples of both the King Cobra and Anaconda re-emerging in recent years. The classic double-action revolver had been discontinued nearly 20 years earlier, but nostalgia-fed demand had increased steadily after, and Colt finally gave the shooting public what it was demanding: a new Python.
In 2020, revolver enthusiasts rejoiced when Colt reintroduced the much sought-after Python.
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