The Colt Python and the Smith & Wesson 686 are two mid-sized .357 Magnum revolvers that have competed with one another off and on for decades. While I have long been a fan of Smith & Wesson revolvers, Colt’s reintroduction of the Python in 2020 made me curious as to how the modern iterations of … Read more
Colt is making a lot of Python fans happy today with the latest addition to their Python revolver line. Joining the 6-inch and 4.25-inch models is a new 3-inch short-barrel Python. Here’s their press release . . . Often dubbed the “finest production revolver ever made,” the Colt Python built a cult following among wheel … Read more
Two classics going head to head. Yes, I know, the Colt Python and the Smith & Wesson Model 686 have been compared ad nauseam, especially since the Python was reborn. This is slightly different since both guns are originals; the Colt was made in 1978 and the S&W was made in 1988. I am not … Read more
Years ago, John Butler wrote a popular post here explaining why Colt would never again build another Python revolver. But John probably knew that his prediction was in trouble when Colt got back into the snake gun business in 2017. If you read Jon Wayne Taylor’s review of the excellent King Cobra, it didn’t take … Read more
Josh Wayner didn’t get a lot of argument yesterday when he pronounced the .357 Magnum one of the most effective and versatile rounds ever invented. And while there are plenty of great Ruger and Smith & Wesson revolvers out there chambered for the .357 (I have a couple of K and N frame examples that … Read more
Anyone else surprised thehill.com ran this op-ed? . . . The racist origin of gun control laws Kansas Senator Samuel Pomeroy extolled the three “indispensable” “safeguards of liberty under our form of government,” the sanctity of the home, the right to vote, and “the right to bear arms.” So “if the cabin door of the freedman … Read more
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