{"id":6767,"date":"2021-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2021-04-27T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T04:58:09","slug":"colts-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/colts-python\/","title":{"rendered":"COLT\u2019S PYTHON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my last entry here, I reviewed Colt expert Gurney Brown\u2019s beautiful book \u201cThe Seven Serpents.\u201d Here, I present his follow-up, an homage<\/em> to the most widely recognized of those Colt \u201csnake guns,\u201d the Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was, in its time, the flagship of the Colt fleet and widely recognized as the \u201cCadillac of Revolvers.\u201d It earned a reputation for exquisite accuracy, in part because of the small engineering marvel of tapering the bore by 0.001\u201d toward the muzzle, driving the lead deeper into the rifling\u2026partly because its rifling twist of one turn in 14\u201d stabilized 148 to 158 grain bullets better than the 1:18.75\u201d twist of its arch rival Smith & Wesson in the same caliber\u2026and partly because its \u201csecond cylinder hand\u201d design locked the chamber dead nuts solid in line with the barrel as the hammer fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book dedicated to it is \u201cColt\u2019s Python,\u201d subtitled \u201cKing of the Seven Serpents\u201d by Colt scholar Gurney Brown. As lavish a coffee-table book as its predecessor, this one delves deeply into the history of this fine gun.  Only Colt\u2019s most seasoned polishers were allowed to apply its famous Royal Blue finish, using polishing media as fine as talcum powder. Only their most experienced craftsmen hand-honed the actions of every single one of them, giving the Python its famously sweet trigger pull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps one reason I enjoyed this book so much is that I have some ego invested in it. I shot my first PPC match with a Colt Python borrowed from my late friend Tom Stackpole.\u00a0\u00a0Back in the day, I managed to nail a running ram at 76 yards with a Python I borrowed from the late Hal Swiggett, and did so double action thanks in large part to its sweet action by master gunsmith Jerry Moran. After that, I went home and ordered my own and sent it to Jerry. I own it still, having worn it as a uniform police service revolver and sometime off-duty gun.\u00a0\u00a0It won a bunch of matches for me including a few state titles.\u00a0\u00a0It was joined by others.\u00a0\u00a0I own them today in four of its five barrel lengths \u2013 2.5\u201d, 4\u201d, 6\u201d, and 8\u201d and hope to one day own one of the\u00a0uber-uber-<\/em>rare 3\u201d models.\u00a0\u00a0I am also happy that Mr. Brown chose to include a chapter of my three-part magnum opus on the Python in his book; you can catch the original here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus ends my Python ego trip, now back to a great book. The photography is awesome. Mr. Brown has put in lots of details on special production runs of this gun.\u00a0\u00a0You can salivate over the engraved and gold inlaid variations depicted.\u00a0\u00a0Price? Suggested retail will kill a good part of a C-note, but if you go to\u00a0www.gundigeststore.com<\/a>, you may just find some happy discounts there\u00a0\uf04a\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed heck out of Mr. Brown\u2019s Python book. It is a salute to American workmanship and ingenuity, and a little bit of a time capsule of a special chapter in the history of guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last entry here, I reviewed Colt expert Gurney Brown\u2019s beautiful book \u201cThe Seven Serpents.\u201d Here, I present his follow-up, an homage to the most widely recognized of those Colt \u201csnake guns,\u201d the Python. It was, in its time, the flagship of the Colt fleet and widely recognized as the \u201cCadillac of Revolvers.\u201d It earned a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}