But there just isn't anything like a Python. almost 33 years later, I'm still kicking myself in the ass for selling my first one, but buying food was a bigger priority at that moment.
So, me adding that he got it for $250 virtually new from his brother the cop in Salinas in the 80's probably won't make you feel much better.
I bought my first Python in 1974 from the trust fund beneficiary room mate of a friend in Reno. We were talking about guns when the room mate mentions he has a Python and may want to sell it. I asked how much and he fetched it from his bedroom. He said he wanted a smaller handgun that would fit in his sports car glove box, so he offered that we might do a trade -- I buy him the smaller gun of his choice and he gives me the Python. We went to the gun shop, he picked out a new Colt Cobra (.38 Spl.), I paid the $150 OTD cost for it and he gave me the Python with sales receipt right there. I was most appreciative that the Gun Shop owner never said what he may have thought of a Cobra for Python straight trade. :lol:
But I apparently learned nothing from any of that.
Four years later, mid divorce and needing money, I put it in the classifieds for $150 while I was house sitting for my Mom in L.A. (no transfer hoops to jump through back then). First call was before 7 am and I sold it to that guy by 7:30 am. I got roughly 20 more calls before noon, at which time I left for the day (and we didn't have answering machines back then). I KNEW I'd F'ed up before the end of the day, and there is nothing that has EVER made me feel better about that sale in the intervening years -- certainly NOT what has happened to their prices since they are no longer made (the first ones were made in '55 and a last, single 50 year commemorative Python was made in 2005). My current Python wasn't cheap, is Stainless Steel (first offered in SS by Colt in 1982) and my Anaconda is also Stainless (all Colt Anacondas are SS).
Colt is talking about reintroducing double action revolvers, but the Python is not likely to be produced again. There is probably no way that they could sell them for the price that would be required to make money off it for all that goes into this finest of all handguns, even with CNC machines making many of the parts.
Iggy -- I hope you got yourself on the will for that Python. I'm never selling mine.