I compared the Python with a Limited Edition M1911 from Colt, a 5" steel-frame .45 ACP setup much like many of the "combat custom" .45s from the 1990s. I have a considerable amount of time behind ...

Colt’s Custom Shop offered the Python Elite through special-order-only in 1997, discontinuing it a year later, and reintroducing it a year after that. Finally, Pythons were reintroduced from the ...

The Colt Python was retired by Colt in 2005 ... While modern machining processes could create the equal of the Python, the reassurance that hours of personal attention and gunmaking experience ...

The Colt Python was retired by Colt in 2005 ... While modern machining processes could create the equal of the Python, the reassurance that hours of personal attention and gunmaking experience ...

I find it rare for a gun to possess intrinsic warmth, but the Colt Python 3-inch model reintroduced this year has just that. I don’t mean warmth produced by the combustion of smokeless powder—I mean a ...