Who wants a $10K Python? Better yet, one you can never shoot without losing a small fortune. Just listed:
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$10K Colt Python?
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Biggfoot44
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- Aug 2, 2009
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Pythons are indeed nice guns. But in recent years they have become stupid expensive , and have now become rare postage stamps that resemble a gun , rather than somthing to be actually used like a gun.
Ask collectors of Beanie Babies what happened to their "assets".
Read up on the Dutch Tulip Crash of 1637.
Read up on the Dutch Tulip Crash of 1637.
Their descendants have a basement full of 22LR ammo that they think is a retirement fund.
Oh stop.
It's a "canned good" with no expiration date.
MikeSP will buy it from our survivor's yard sale and all peoples very happy.
It's a "canned good" with no expiration date.
MikeSP will buy it from our survivor's yard sale and all peoples very happy.
j_h_smith
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- Jul 28, 2007
- 28,516
Someone will buy it, no doubt. Not for me however.
It can store a very long time. But it's not the store of wealth that hoarders assume.
Just curious: do you regard it as worth its purchase price, or do you think a .22LR market dump will make all bricks worth only a fraction of cost forever more?
In the "old days" just a couple hundred bucks got you a HUGE lifelong cache. So yes, even the value rockets up to 10x cost it still represents only one month's mortgage payment.
In the "old days" just a couple hundred bucks got you a HUGE lifelong cache. So yes, even the value rockets up to 10x cost it still represents only one month's mortgage payment.
So you're hoarding, eh? 
You have to do an apples-for-apples comparison in terms of real cost and lost investment opportunity. Pick a year, figure out today's equivalent money, and see what that money buys you now. For that matter, any profit you have today (paper or realized) should be compared to the profit you would have made in alternative low-risk investments back then, in order to see how well or poorly you fared in comparison. For example, if the 22LR stash went up 10x in value, it still might stink as an investment if the same money in laddered treasury bonds went up 20x in value during the same time period.
You have to do an apples-for-apples comparison in terms of real cost and lost investment opportunity. Pick a year, figure out today's equivalent money, and see what that money buys you now. For that matter, any profit you have today (paper or realized) should be compared to the profit you would have made in alternative low-risk investments back then, in order to see how well or poorly you fared in comparison. For example, if the 22LR stash went up 10x in value, it still might stink as an investment if the same money in laddered treasury bonds went up 20x in value during the same time period.
Biggfoot44
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Nah , a Python doesn't to become a Beanie Baby or a Dutch Tulip. It is still a high quality premium revolver. Back when they were in regular production , they sold for about 20% over a S&W M27 . Given the time since being out of regular production , you would rationally expect them to sell maybe 50% over a M27 .
Marauder
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- Dec 14, 2010
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You can buy allot of S&W with 10K
j_h_smith
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- Jul 28, 2007
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I never really like Colt revolvers. I'm spending money with the family...Smith & Wesson.
Biggfoot44
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I'm not knocking the Peacekeeper , but that would be the Poorman's Mark V . A fine enough gun/ family of guns in their own right , but does not share the Python linage.
You missed my point. I get that Pythons were hand fitted revolvers vs mass market, I get that they share basic appearance and a vent rib but not the trigger system. Yada yada
How about the Mark V is the poor mans Python and the Peacekeeper is a poor poor mans version.
spclopr8tr
Whatchalookinat?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I think the engraving job is hideous. Give me an as new, non-customized Python any day. But this is one ain't for me.
Vile Shadow
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- Feb 28, 2013
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Besides, this is the poor mans' Python.
Agree 100%, if you find a good one. For a bigger budget, a S&W pre-27 will make you forget about Pythons for way less money.
10 grand for that?!?
Pffft...
Hell, it ain't even stainless.
Besides, this is the poor mans' Python.
Love it. Useful, practical, good performer.
Vile Shadow
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- Feb 28, 2013
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