Hashknife Cowboy Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 Went into a "new" gun shop here in Flagstaff and he was selling a good looking 6 inch Colt Python for $2400.00. Really? I did laugh.....
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 I once started a collection of those until they got toooooo expensive for me to just keep around and not shoot. Sooooo, I sold them. My first Python was a 4". Cost: $250.00 ..........Widder
Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 Reminds me of the story about the ol' boy in the chainsaw shop. Looking around he noticed all the saws were $1200-1500. He said, "Bet you don't sell many at that price!" Owner replied, "Don't have to."
Red Hooker Posted March 7, 2013 Posted March 7, 2013 Python prices are going insane- see coltforum.com . All these auction places don't help either.
Fillmore Coffins, SASS #7884 Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 ...and they're not that great. Fillmore
slate mike sass#29204 Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Fillmore - I gotta differ with you on that. You maybe like the Korth better?
Tom Bullweed Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 I bought a circa Python 8" royal gun for $450 in 2001. This gun was 95%-plus and shot as well as my carbine leverguns. I sold it for $1250 in 2008. Now I cannot find the same gun for less than $2750. Are the good guns getting more valuable or is the might dollar not so mighty? I had five .357 mag pistols at one time (Dan Wesson, S&W 686, GP-100, Python and T/C 10"). The Python shot groups half the size of these other guns.
Rusty Rooster Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 It all depends on your perspective! A pound of sugar is still a pound of sugar - a gallon of gas is still a gallon of gas - a loaf of bread is still a loaf of bread - and an ounce of gold is still an ounce of gold! BUT....the number of dollars & cents needed to purchase everything is a lot more now-a-days - so it seems to me that it is just that the US Dollar is worth less and less every day - and has been going that way since WWII. (That's as far back as I can remember!)
Fillmore Coffins, SASS #7884 Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Fillmore - I gotta differ with you on that. You maybe like the Korth better? I never meant to offend. I handled a few when I had my store in the 90's. The ones of that period were just regular ole guns in my opinion. The older ones were smooth sure, but the gun has a reputation of not being all that strong and being prone to losing their timing. Conversely a similar period S&W is a comparable gun as far as strength, accuracy, and quality. Of course those nice S&Ws are commanding top dollar too but not $2000 + even though they are just as good if not better. Fillmore
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 I never meant to offend. I handled a few when I had my store in the 90's. The ones of that period were just regular ole guns in my opinion. The older ones were smooth sure, but the gun has a reputation of not being all that strong and being prone to losing their timing. Conversely a similar period S&W is a comparable gun as far as strength, accuracy, and quality. Of course those nice S&Ws are commanding top dollar too but not $2000 + even though they are just as good if not better. Fillmore I agree. I prefer the S&W revolvers over the Colts too. The Colt SAA, the 1911's and the AR's are great but I'll go with the S&W DA revolver over Colt DA's every time. Rye
Noz Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 I curious to see what a Colt Police Positive in 38 in the original box may bring at a country auction in a couple of weeks. Auctioneer say it may not have been fired. Guesses? I told him I thought, in this crazy price time, it would bring at least $1000.
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