[smutt]

I'm not a fan of the three vents on the 4.25" models at all.

Me either, but I guess it will keep the low level scammers from trying to pass them off as the earlier versions of the Python. Not a fan of the hammer and trigger shape either, and how am I supposed to get a fancy cylinder turn line with those damn leads?

 

[mag318]

I don't think my photos to the bluing on my new Python so I did a short video which I think highlights the finish a little better.

 

[ArsenalFan]

Nice video! Thank you for posting it. It really shows off what a fine job Colt did with both the metal polishing and the blued finish. The Deer Hollow grips are superb as well!

 

[shyler]

A beautiful revolver. I'm envious.🥺

 

[denpython]

Thanks for the video! It really shows the finish more naturally than any other I have seen so far!!

 

[kwsyler]

It’s one awesome revolver. I carried a 6” on duty, back in the 70s, but like an idiot I traded it for something. Guess I’ll get another blue 6”!!

 

[UpNorthAngler]

Boy, this is a sweet gun. There is one of these in my future but I suppose not soon. They are still just about impossible to find. I'll just be patient. Wonder when the 3" and 2 1/2" models will be released blued?

 

[Woodser]

That's a pretty revolver!
I just became a first-ever Python owner, but am having to make do with an old used c.1979 model.
Poor thing had been in storage, owned by a non-gun person with Pachs on it, which trapped a tiny bit of moisture and caused a very small rust spot. Cleaned it up, touched up with Brownell's Oxpho-Blue and the new Deer Hollow grips cover almost all of the blemish.
Had it at the range yesterday, trying out different hunting loads for it. It liked 3 of the 4 I tried. Seemed fitting, being from 1979 that it really liked the hardcast Keith LSWC-HP.

 

[Crappieman]

I picked up my 4.25" blued Python this afternoon and couldn't be happier. The revolver was heavily oiled so I wiped off the excess and snapped some pics. The fit and finish on close inspection is flawless so I'm really impressed. As much as I like my stainless Pythons there is just something about a blued one. I actually like the 3 slots in the ventilated rib View attachment 891022 View attachment 891023 View attachment 891024 View attachment 891025

I'm a Colt nut and have been for years. I own 3 of them, I own 2 Pythons, six inch barrels both Royal Blue, flawless guns 1978, 1977, and also a very very old Colt Army 38 special, best I can tell its approx. 108 years old, it has been refinished and it came out that beautiful black, every time I take it out I am amazed how nice and tight it still is and shoots very well. Before the new Pythons came out I had heard many times when a lot of the finishers that works at Colt were gone and they couldn't match the Royal Blue finish, I also read and saw that the new finishers couldn't match the beautiful Royal Blue finish, it came out a beautiful black. So after seeing so many Colts refinished they were always that beautiful black color. So I believed thats just the way it was. Until, I saw this new 2024 Colt Python in this picture, they were wrong, Colt/CZ has matched the Royal Blue beautifully, so glad to see they can do that. I've never shot a newer one but can drive tacks with the 2 I own. Enjoy your new Colt Sir.

Take Care all.

 

[Ivan912]

I picked up my 4.25" blued Python this afternoon and couldn't be happier. The revolver was heavily oiled so I wiped off the excess and snapped some pics. The fit and finish on close inspection is flawless so I'm really impressed. As much as I like my stainless Pythons there is just something about a blued one. I actually like the 3 slots in the ventilated rib View attachment 891022 View attachment 891023 View attachment 891024 View attachment 891025

I’m a bit confused about the 2024 Python blued 4in. The pictures on the web at major gun suppliers show the 4.25in blued with 2 VENTS. Here you’re showing yours with 3 vents. Do they make 2 models then? An explanation is appreciated. Ty.

 

[mag318]

Ivan, You're not alone and the 3 vents as opposed to 2 is a bone of contention with many Python owners. I personally don't care and like the 3 vents. Watch if Colt decides to go back to the 2 vent barrel on the 4.25" blued Pythons, the 3 vent models will become instant collector items. I believe Colts initial press release showed the blued Python with 2 vents and when the production models started arriving at dealers it had the 3 vents. Colt claims they did this just for aesthetics.

 

[Ivan912]

Thank you for clarifying this issue. SW and other retailers mostly showing a 2 Vent gun as of now, but NO STOCK! I’m assuming once they get stock that will change to 3 vents?

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Photos are usually done before general release as advertising needs to be created and scheduled Plus owners manuals need to be designed, proofed and printed. I would believe any photos of a blued 4.25” barreled Python with two vents was likely a pre-production prototype before production specs were finalized.

 

[dsk]

The stock photos circulating of two-vent blued 4.25" Pythons are either pre-production guns or Photoshopped stainless models. Nobody has actually seen one in the wild. Still very strange that Colt would put three vents on the blued guns and still leave the stainless guns with two.

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

The stock photos circulating of two-vent blued 4.25" Pythons are either pre-production guns or Photoshopped stainless models. Nobody has actually seen one in the wild. Still very strange that Colt would put three vents on the blued guns and still leave the stainless guns with two.

There must be different forging tooling between the two. It could be once the tooling for the stainless barrels requires replacement they might settle on just one design…or not.

 

[dsk]

I doubt the forging dies have the vents in them. They're machined out of the blanks later. I guess we can't rationalize why Colt does the things they do... like why they make some Series 70 1911 frames with the rail bridge over the slide stop cutout and others without. They must really enjoy re-setting the CNC program every time they make a new batch of guns.