Like many others, I spent years pining for an authentic Python to join my ... The truth is they don't exist. Colt executives didn't want to provide any advertising for one of their top competitors.

Tried to buy a Colt Python recently? In Seven Serpents—The ... manuals, hang tags, advertising and even copies of Colt factory letters. The Blue Book of Gun Values team also generated an ...

One of seven mid-20th century Colt handguns named after snakes, the Python was introduced in 1955. The Python was a beefy, all steel and wood revolver chambered in .357 Magnum.

However, in the world of revolvers, there is one that is clearly head and shoulders above the competition: The Colt Python. It is almost certainly the perfect revolver. More than a hundred years ...

I find it rare for a gun to possess intrinsic warmth, but the Colt Python 3-inch model reintroduced this year has just that. I don’t mean warmth produced by the combustion of smokeless powder—I mean a ...