Sigs nice but I like the second paper weight better.nice pick ups.
Nice pistola. Just a quick question, though.
Nice pistola. Just a quick question, though.
Colt Pythons are superb guns, granted, but yours is stainless steel.
Have you ever considered sending it off to a place like Mahovsky's and getting it nickel-plated? Not electroless-nickel, but a shiny nickel plated?
There's a variety of nickel plating. Electroless nickel, nickel boron, hard chromed -- they're all beautiful.
Why plate a stainless Python? First, stainless gets a lot of dings and scrapes. Plating is cosmetically pleasing. (Especially bright nickel, if you like it.) Second, Pythons tend to go out of time when shot a lot. The hand, or pawl, tends to be tiny and it wears. When it can't move the ratchet into place, it goes out of time.
Hard chroming hardens the surface to 70-71 on the Rockwell scale, which makes it almost impossible to ding or scratch. It also looks like lightly polished stainless steel. The pawl and ratchet also increase the wear resistance significantly.
Just a suggestion. I like the bright nickel and have even thought of plating my Security-Six. But it does tend to be pricy. I have a Browning Hi-Power and have thought of plating that...but the bluing is too beautiful. I wish they'd come up with a way to keep them looking like they do.
If you can, I'd like to see some more photos of your Python. Did you buy it used or new? Do you have any other DA .357s?
Cheers!
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