Interesting. My old man had an 80s Python back in the day, one of the blued ones, amusingly he really didnāt like it much, but I loved it. He sold it years ago, before the values really skyrocketed. Iād been wanting one forever, but the values kept rising and rising to what I considered prohibitively expensive, especially for something that would likely be a safe queen/collection piece.
When Colt reintroduced them in 2020 I figured market saturation of the new guns would drive down the value of the older ones and I could scoop one up. I browsed a ton. Didnāt happen.
I came around to liking the newer ones equally given how they simplified the design a bit and the fact theyāre stronger overall and feel equally smooth (some will argue this, but I honestly canāt tell the difference in the action or the trigger.) Still wasnāt quite enthused about $1500, and nice examples for older ones were $2500 and up.
When I ran across one for $900 on GunBroker I figured it had toāve been scam. Ended up exchanging E-mails with the seller basically asking whatās up, he was willing to actually call and talk, he said he ran into some financial troubles and was liquidating his entire gun collection. His auctions lined up with the story, he said he was willing to exchange payment through GunTab which gave me some security on my end, so I went ahead and bought it.
A new Anaconda will be next, in the 8" variety.
1911, maybe you should start a wheelgun thread and we can move the discussion over there.