Cottonmouth/Python

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

An interesting take on the Colt Python.

 

Cowboy Up! Modernized Colt Python ft. EMPIRE COTTONMOUTH

[Alpo]

Yeah, I just found that in my email. Ugly damn gun. Right up there with those lever actions with the skeletal foregrip and the picatinny rail and the collapsible plastic buttstock.

[Blackwater 53393]

Looks like something you’d build for some sort of target competition, shooting from a rest.

 

With all that stuff hanging off of it, it sure wouldn’t be practical for EDC!!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Good Lord, that is ugly.

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

Is handgun metallic silhouette shooting still around?

I had friends that shot it in the 80's.

That's one possible use.

Like Blackwater said, something shot from a rest.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

It was such a nice gun to shoot.

I sold mine, just before the great "Handgun Transfer Freeze",  imposed by the Prime Minister, on legally owned and registered handguns  came into effect here in Canada.

Gangsters, Terrorists, Drug Dealers, Gang Bangers and all other assorted thugs are of course exempt from the law.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

What an amazingly perfect example to show the word abomination!

[Cypress Sun]

6 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Good Lord, that is ugly.

 

Make a Moccasin (the snake) seem purty!

[Dantankerous]

Uh, negative ghost rider.

 

Ruining a perfectly good Colt? Criminal at best.

 

Ugh.

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

they sure trashed a nice pistol 

[Pat Riot]

Would be a great Silhouette Comp gun or a benchrest revolver for targets MUCH further away than pistol targets at a SASS match. Come to think of it…A lot further than rifle targets too. 

 

I personally don’t want one, but I can see where one could come in handy. 
It could be a good hunting pistol too. 

[bgavin]

There is enough Black and Rail on it to scare the dickens out of the snowflakes.
And equally enough to give morning wood to the wannabes.

Edited December 10, 2024 by bgavin

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

Oh, the horrors.

A Colt Python that might actually live out its life as more than a pampered safe queen.

 

The Colt Python is actually a "firearm" and fairly decent when used for that purpose - it is not "a piece of art" or an inviolate holy relic.  

 

I enjoy seeing seeing items allowed to fulfill their true potential.  

 

There are some that would rail against the "modifications/ butchering" of our firearms as well; but we reply that cutting up a Browning SxS or Winchester 97's is completely appropriate for their use in our game.

 

There are some that wail and knash their teeth at the chopped top of a street rod - or the suspension changes on a sports car; but the owner replies these changes were integral to their vision or use of the car.

 

In my opinion; there is always a beauty in any tool being optimized to provide the best result for its owners intended purpose.

 

Lastly, if your still hung up on its appearance - think about it like the pretty girl with the bleached hair, piercings and tattoo...

You may think she ruined her looks;

but she was never going home with you anyways.

[Adolph Vancinghand, SASS #28923]

I'm sorry, but "no". Just...no.

 

Look, I'm a fan of the "true" Python...the old school, O-framed, leaf-sprung Python and have been since the '70s. I've been blessed to have owned multiple examples over the years but I'm down to a single one today.   It was tuned by the late Fred Sadowski of 300 Gunsmith Service in Denver (who, with the late Reeves Jungkind of Texas were acknowledged Masters with the Python action).  Stacking is almost NON-EXISTENT and the entire DA stroke is like butter.  This wheelgun now wears a 5" slab-side bull barrel instead of its original 4" tube.  Cremation may prevent it being buried with me...

 

So I don't see Pythons (especially these new bits) as art. And the new ones aren't bad for what they are...but they'll never touch the old ones.

 

What Empire is building falls under my heading of being " neither fish, fowl, nor flesh". While I've put food on my table with the .357 (an 8"Python, BTW), there are FAR better answers for a hunting revolver cartridge...and all of them start with a "4". As to IHMSA, the .357 was tried years ago and found wanting. Stuffed with a 180 grain slug it's marginal for reliable ram-tipping and I'd like to see a round so loaded into the Cottonmouth allow the cylinder to close. Personal defense? It's too big to carry, which leaves home defense and any of our cowboy lever guns would seem a better answer in the house (one of my bedroom long guns is a Marlin .357 with a red dot and a Surefire underneath). And my ears hurt just looking at that muzzle brake...

 

Hey, if you want one, go get one...differences in opinion are what makes horse races.   

 

Edited December 10, 2024 by Adolph Vancinghand, SASS #28923