It makes sense form an expanding the market point of view...just something about cheapening the Python "look" i find distasteful and unappealing. Maybe I need to broaden my horizons on this matter. Colt is a business and they make business decisions in an effort to increase sales, revenues and profitability.

 

More choices- Good.
cheapening the flagship - risky.

Rolex doesn’t make a 3/4” priced Submariner version do they?

I continue to beat the dead horse again. But
It just baffles me. I guess I need to know the numbers to understand.
Some Colt marketing manager may be saying “ boy I could shut this dude right up “.

 

Much like a first-class gloss black paint job on a Corvette, the Colt Royal Blue finish of a Python shows every scratch from a mile away!

But a smooth satin-black finish makes either look most weapon-like!

 

Not a fan of matte blue on a Python either. Highly polished gloss finishes are as much a Python feature as the vented rib to my thinking. I do, however like the look of nicely done fine satin stainless as offered on certain Smiths, just not on Pythons.

I put in a call to Colt CS last week to put in my plug for blued Anacondas. That's the addition I'd really like to see.

 

So....... Colt is still going to keep MSRP @ $1499 according to there website? That's brazen IMO.

Matte Blued Python - Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC

 

Times and tastes change, and a company has to change with it.
I recently saw some type of expensive foreign super car with a Matte Black paint job.
It certainly looked different then the usual high gloss paint, and I can see people liking it for something different and unusual.

Same thing holds for a Matte Black or bead blasted stainless Pythons.... some customers will like it and will buy it, so Colt would be stupid not to offer these to the buying public. Colt is just being smart to offer choices.
Don't like them, just don't buy them.

 

No doubt, they should offer what they feel will sell. I'd like to see Colt offer some advanced finish like DLC or a PVD coating. I think the DLC finish on Korths looks nice, and no doubt it is durable.

 

 

Why? There are other Colt revolver lines that are not the iconic Python. Reintroduce the Trooper line for instance. I do have a MkIII .22. I’ve never fired the original Python but with all the glowing descriptions I can’t imagine the trigger was what my Python’s trigger feels like.

 

Agree on the above that some form of modern, partial lug Trooper would be really nice.

An 8” matte blue Python paired with their new mount and a quality dot scope, with special roll mark on the barrel, would be my one exception. That would be cool.

 

The answer to a question no one asked.

 

I signed-in today just to say:

FUGLY.............. glad I don't buy guns anymore..!!!!

J.

 

The 5” on Colt’s website actually looks pretty mean with the black grip and tritium sight. If they were Colt medallion Pachmayr Grippers I think I might actually like that one enough to change my tune a bit.

 

The more I look at the 5" model, the more I want it...

 

People are comical. Matte blued finishes aren't necessarily "cheap", nor does a matte Python somehow devalue your Royal Blue Python. Matte finishes do not cover up flaws, it highlights them. The USFA Rodeo and Rodeo II had all the same metal prep work done as the high end guns, they just bead blasted them instead of the final polish and case coloring. There are tons of custom guns that have been made with a matte finish and I don't mean modern tacticool guns but the kind in $5000 walnut blanks. This $5000 Korth has a matte finish. You can spend $10k on a custom 1911 with a matte finish. A matte finish on a $1500 Python? Big deal. Rugers are $1400. Colt used to 'need' a different model to sell a more affordable gun, the lockwork was entirely different. That is no longer necessary. If it helps Colt sell more guns, I'm all for it. I want them to flourish, even if it means they make stuff I don't want. Oh the horror.

This is light years away from the unpolished Colt's of the strike years. The Peacekeeper of the `80's still had rough machine marks on it. The matte finish covered up nothing. This is flawless, not the same.

 

People are comical. Matte blued finishes aren't necessarily "cheap", nor does a matte Python somehow devalue your Royal Blue Python. Matte finishes do not cover up flaws, it highlights them. The USFA Rodeo and Rodeo II had all the same metal prep work done as the high end guns, they just bead blasted them instead of the final polish and case coloring. There are tons of custom guns that have been made with a matte finish and I don't mean modern tacticool guns but the kind in $5000 walnut blanks. This $5000 Korth has a matte finish. You can spend $10k on a custom 1911 with a matte finish. A matte finish on a $1500 Python? Big deal. Rugers are $1400. Colt used to 'need' a different model to sell a more affordable gun, the lockwork was entirely different. That is no longer necessary. If it helps Colt sell more guns, I'm all for it. I want them to flourish, even if it means they make stuff I don't want. Oh the horror.

This is light years away from the unpolished Colt's of the strike years. The Peacekeeper of the `80's still had rough machine marks on it. The matte finish covered up nothing. This is flawless, not the same.

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Korth's matte finish is really a super fine satin finish, which is a bit higher sheen than the typical "matte." Theirs is very nicely done and looks beautiful. It is a DLC finish, which is significantly more durable than matte bluing. DLC is a dark gray-black as opposed to the blue-black of bluing. I have had several guns DLC'ed and love the look of DLC. I wish Colt offered DLC.

 

Asking for a Trooper level quality Colt ignores the fact that under modern production methods a Trooper would cost no less then the Python.
It would essentially be a variation on the Python with a short lug barrel and not much else.

The original Python was a Trooper or 357 with a better blue job and some additional tuning of the action, along with a more complicated ribbed and lugged barrel.
Today none of that is done and a Trooper shrouded barrel would probably not cost much less then the Python barrel.

 

Not for me but I can only imagine what that matte finish will look like after cleaning and the handling with oily hands/rubber gloves. Would it end up being shiny when you wipe it down?

 

Apparently, Colt is going to release a matte blue Python soon in 2.5, 3, and 5”.

Only Stock Photos for now.

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I love the matte finish, but what I do not like is the crazy decision to ruin the looks of the 4-inch blue python with three vents instead of the traditional two vents.

 

That has barely came up on the forum

 

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For a shooter I would prefer the matte finish.

As for the current blue…. it is not what it used to be. More black than blue and not nearly as nice as the old ones I have.

 

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope! I's like having a beautiful girlfriend who stopped taking a bath. Just nope.

 

Matte blue. It's probably just me, but I always considered that nomenclature to be secret squirrel code for...very poorly polished.😁
Best
Spike

 

I give it a no!

 

Yeah, not opening my check book for one of those.