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Colter Brog on the Colt Python
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Colter Brog filmed this tabletop review of his 2020 Colt Python back in December 2021, after about two and a half months and 850 rounds of shooting. He bought it new in the box from a local gun store in October 2021 and says the review is fully independent: his gun, his ammo, no compensation of any kind. There’s no sponsor and nothing to buy through the channel.
The nits come first, and he doesn’t hide them. The rear sight windage lock screw came loose from the factory, and the sight walked until he tightened it. The rear side plate screw was loose too, though he says it never caused a problem and he only found it with the grips off. There’s also a very small blemish on the edge of one cylinder flute, which he thinks came from the shipped cable lock rattling against it. “It’s not a big deal to me, I bought it to shoot it, but that could definitely irk some people,” he says. The single action pull was another letdown at first, “fairly crisp but it was quite heavy” in his words. His summary is blunt: “unfortunately they’re not perfect revolvers as they come from Colt.”
Then the good news. He went into the shop to look at a Ruger GP100, handled the Python, and says he “was not going to be leaving that gun shop with a Ruger GP100 anymore.” What sold him was the way the cylinder locks up “with just a certain firmness, it doesn’t clank,” and he compares it on camera with his older S&W Model 66, which he calls loosey goosey by comparison. He mostly shoots steel plates, so he won’t give a hard accuracy number, but he says “it is not an inaccurate revolver” and calls the sights “quite good.” The double action pull is a “smooth roll through” for him. After all that live fire, plus hundreds of dry fires and a little grease, he says the single action has “lightened up a lot” and is “actually pretty good,” so he dropped his plan for trigger work. He likes the four inch barrel on his, a personal preference, and knows “some folks definitely prefer the six.”
His bottom line: “overall great revolver… it’s beautiful, it feels good, it shoots great, it’s been reliable.” His advice for anyone buying one new is to “just check your screws for tightness” and look it over for blemishes before you leave the counter. Specific claims in the video are his, not ours.
Here’s our take. This is one owner, one gun, and about 850 rounds of his own handloads over about 75 days. That’s a fair look at the revolver he got, not a promise about every one off the line, and his tip on the screws is worth taking.
We stock the configuration he shot. On the shelf: the Colt Python 357 Magnum in stainless with a 4.25 inch barrel, with six round capacity per our listing. He calls his the four inch. Our listing gives that barrel as 4.25 inch. If you’re in the six inch camp he mentions, we have the Colt Python 357 Magnum in stainless with a 6 inch barrel too. He didn’t shoot that one in this video. We also carry the Colt Python 357 Magnum in polished blue with a 4.25 inch barrel, the same barrel length in the other finish. He doesn’t show or mention the blued gun. Complete firearm. Indiana FFL transfer through Wulfy’s. Ask us for current fees.
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