Sell or keep the Colt Python???

[twohightech]

I been selling my snakes off to feed this new 1911 -AR15 bug i have. The Python is so nice i don't shoot it much and it is the best shooting gun i have. I have an 1991M colt and the newest is a combat commander. I been looking for a 3.5 barrel 1911. then build a new AR with the funds. both of those can be got easy and cheap but may never have the chace to get a python again. help me please what would you do??????

 

[garyh9900]

If I'm every lucky enough to get a nice one at the right price, it will stay with me forever. Although I have recently adopted a new policy of never selling, trading, or giving away a firearm. I will just continue to amass them. I think back to all the guns I've sold or traded over the last several years and I want almost all of them back.

 

[OldCavSoldier]

If you sell your Python, I think you will eventually rue the day, especially, since you say that it is the "best shooting gun" you have. Therefore, my advice is to keep it and shoot it occasionally. I agree with Gary. The very few guns that have left my collection for whatever reason, are all missed, still, to this day.

 

[Coal Dragger]

If it shoots well you would be a fool to let it go and you will regret is sooner or later.

The only guns I get rid of now are the ones that disappoint me, namely any that don't shoot well or that do not function well. Life is too short to spend being frustrated with firearms that do not accomplish what I want them to do, namely put projectiles where I want them to go and do it reliably. Therefore, I treasure those firearms that do put rounds where I want them, and that go bang when I want them to.

 

[JHenry]

It could be a good time to sell it as theyre in a rather high demand but personally i would keep it because it doesnt look like colt is gonna be making anymore anytime soon

 

[DPris]

I finally sold mine. Sat in the safe for close on 15 years, took itself out of the realm of carrying or shooting, too nice for either & just wasn't doing anything for me financially or spiritually sitting there being looked at once or twice a year.
I put the money on something I can actually enjoy.
Denis

 

[bikemutt]

That's an easy one: I would sell the Python to me for cheap

Seriously though, if you rarely shoot it and selling it would allow you to get one you'd shoot more, then I'd say sell it.

I'd much rather my epitaph read: "He died and left no ammo" than "He died with lots of unfired guns".

 

[Ky Larry]

If you sell your Python and develope serious sellers regret, how much will it cost you to replace it? You can be sure it will cost you a lot more to replace it than you will get for it now. I wanted a Python for 30 years but could never come up with the cash. A few years ago I found a minty, 1968,6in, blue Python for $700.00. If I may ask, why don't you shoot your Python? I shoot the heck out of mine, clean it up, and it's still looks as good as ever.

 

[Guillermo]

Sell a Python to buy an AR?

Uh...no

I love my AR as much as anyone but that would be like selling a Duesenberg to buy a Model A panel van.

 

[38 Super Fan]

Keep the Python. It will continue to appreciate, where as the other guns you're looking at will only depreciate over time.

 

[ambidextrous1]

I have regretted selling most of the firearms I have sold. I have a Python & shoot it about five times a year; that's enough for me to keep it in my inventory. If I haven't fired a dun in five years, I start thinking about selling it - but worry about regretting the decision...

 

[hbadger]

I been selling my snakes off to feed this new 1911 -AR15 bug i have. help me please what would you do??????

You should sell the python immediately. Then, in about 8-9 years, when you can't stand it any more, I will give you the chance to own one again. For a ridiculously high price, of course, but I have to pay for my kid's college somehow.

Oh, sorry, I forgot that this is a friendly forum where advice is supposed to help the recipient. My bad.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer. You have to make the decision based on your personal factors. IMO, time has a lot to do with keeping things or letting them go. I'd make a guess that lots of the guys that are saying keep it are in the first half of their lives and haven't considered their own mortality. Once you get into the second half you often start weighing out how much time you have left and what you would like to do with it. For most of us time in a way equals money. You generally have to spend your time to make money to get the things you want. If don't want to spend some of your limited time to earn the money for something you want or don't want to have to wait on that something you want, sell off an object you don't want/need, in this case a Python, and use the funds to get what you are after. Good luck with your choice.

 

[Guillermo]

CPE is coming off all adult and compassionate

I think he is trying to buy a Python

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Yeah, I've done shot the OP a PM with a lowball offer......j/k.

 

[Dr_B]

If I were you, I would sell the Python... to me. Seriously, PM me if you decide you want to get rid of it.

 

[OldCavSoldier]

Brethren, you guys crack me up!! (Thanks! I needed the morale boost this morning...)

 

[leadcounsel]

Tough call

I'd first say sell, because you can get a good S&W or Ruger revolver for half what a Python costs.

However, I don't follow my own advice. I have a very nice 1911 that I won't sell despite nice ones available at 1/2 price...

The Python is rare, a gem, and really an heirloom. Keep 'er.

 

[sugarmaker]

Keep...always keep.

 

[DPris]

CPE has it.
At 59, my "somedays" are decreasing alarmingly, I have enough other guns to pass on down to a very few inheritors, most of whom wouldn't know what the gun is or truly appreciate it, so I chose to sell & put the money on something I actually will use before I die.

Kept the minty 1966 Trooper .357 that I CAN shoot or carry, if I want to.
Acquiring an un-issued 1961 PD sell-off Official Police that'll see some use, while retaining "classic" status.
No regrets whatever on the Python. If it was just going to sit & sit & sit it might as well do it in somebody else's safe.
Denis

 

[El Guero]

If you want something else and you don't shoot the Python, by all means get something else. Life is too short to own guns you are afraid to shoot.

 

[oldbear]

may never have the chace to get a python again. help me please what would you do??????

Colt made as fine a revolver as anyone I've just never been a fan of their products specially the python. But if you sell yours now you may never be able to replace it or afford to replace it.

 

[sixgunner455]

I would not sell a Python, unless I had to pay a bill or something that could not be covered in ANY other way.

As you say, AR15 carbines and 1911 pistols can be gotten cheap. I would feel ridiculous selling a Python to fund them.

The AR can be purchased piece by piece from your mad money. Don't sell the Python to get an AR!!!

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I guess you gotta ask yourself - and be honest about it - will you be one of the "I never shoulda...." types or will you be a - "I had a Python and loved it but got over it" type?

Short term - you're contemplating selling a not too common and seldom cheap firearm to finance what is currently a quite common and relatively cheap firearm.

Were this just before a "ban" the answer would be simple.

Me, I regularly struggle with "shoot or sell this ****?" because keeping things around un-shot is getting sillier to me as I get older. Additionally, longer term investment is a crap shoot as I've noted with a couple of NIB Colts which apparently have passed their "sell date" and are approaching shooter status.

Of course there's still the aesthetic value of just liking the look of one.

 

[22-rimfire]

Since it is your best shooter, I would keep it and find a way to buy the other stuff you are looking at.

I sold off my one remaining python a couple of years ago as I just didn't shoot it and I was not interested in collecting Pythons. Sold it at a show for a somewhat reasonable price for the time and have had no real regrets. I purchased something that I was actually going to collect. My best 357 mag shooter is a 6" Colt Trooper Mark III. I really like shooting that gun.

There is life after a Python, but if you really like it, I'd keep it.