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#41 ·
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.
 
#42 ·
dfariswheel said:
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.
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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.
 
#44 · (Edited)
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.
 
#45 ·
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.
 
#48 ·
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.
 
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Uplander said:
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.
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The more I look at the 5" model, the more I want it...
 
#50 ·
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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#51 ·
CraigC said:
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.
 
#52 ·
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.
 
#53 ·
Thaddeus Beauregard said:
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.
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It's a soft bead blast, rather than the abrasive blasting Ruger does with their Hawkeye finish. No different than a lot of other guns. The point remains, it is not a high polish blue comparable to Colt's Royal Blue. DLC or blue in this context doesn't really matter.
 
#54 ·
CraigC said:
It's a soft bead blast, rather than the abrasive blasting Ruger does with their Hawkeye finish. No different than a lot of other guns. The point remains, it is not a high polish blue comparable to Colt's Royal Blue. DLC or blue in this context doesn't really matter.
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Understand, but DLC is a vapor deposition process that deposits carbon on the surface that is kind of like a case harden. It wears so much better than bluing. The bead blast Korth uses to prep prior to DLC is really fine and makes the DLC have a luster and shine that the average matte bluing lacks. Matte bluing can have the same sheen depending on how fine the blast media used is, so maybe Colt's version will look good. But it still won't have anywhere close to the same wear resistance of DLC.
 
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#58 ·
Shawn McCarver said:
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.
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Serious question not meant to be flippant: assuming that the original legacy Python 4 inch model had 3 vents instead of 2, would the presence of the 3 vents on the current 4.25" Python still ruin its looks for you? Mind you, I don't understand why Colt did that given they used so many of the original Python design cues, but taken on it's own, I don't think 3 vents looks bad at all, just maybe not "traditional." However, keep in mind the very fact the current Python has a 4.25" barrel length that never existed in the original Python in the first place to comply with the silly "over 4" barrel" regs, and it's already breaking from tradition there. Again, I don't ask this with any disrespect; I just don't really understand the concern with the 3 vents when it's a different gun not intended to be a faithful reproduction of the original.
 
#60 ·
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.
 
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