Posted March 20, 2019 9:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Colt’s premier revolver from the 1950s onward, the Python, has been “taking care of business” for generations. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)
From the wide range of options in the Guns.com Warehouse, we bring you an aristocrat in the world of double-action revolvers, the Colt Python.
When it hit the market in 1955, the Python was perhaps a high-water mark of sorts when it came to combat wheelguns and to this day was one of the few hand-fitted modern revolvers to be factory produced for the commercial market. Early Colt advertisements characterized the beefy .357 Magnum-caliber six-shooter as, “A finer gun than you actually need,” and its list of standard features set it apart from many of its pencil-barrel contemporaries.
Featuring a full underlug with a shrouded ejector rod, ventilated rib barrel, and adjustable sights, Pythons are distinctive and quickly identified at a glance. The first catalog price on the guns was $125 — about three weeks pay at a time when the price of a gallon of gasoline was 23 cents.
A reoccurring pledge in Colt adverts for the lifespan of the Python was a hand-fitted revolver that they stood behind and would likely endure for generations.
Colt long banked on keeping the gun as a

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