1968 Colt Trooper .357 price check

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superpelly

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Colt Trooper .357 4 inch, orginal grips. production 1968.

The gun is about 99% , not a mark on it. I don't think it was shot a lot.

The hammer pull and trigger feel like a python.

The asking price is $600.00

I guess some people call this the poor mans python.


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Troopers are great guns, I've owned 2 and loved them both. They shot great and had very good triggers.

As stated above, that is a great price for one in 99% condition.

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I think that if you have a Python then you have or should have a good handle on Colt revolver prices..c'mon you know that's a good buy!
 
The colt python, I have had for 20 years and paid 425.00 Paying 600.00 for a Colt, non-Python is new for me......just making sure its a ok price
 
This one isn't 99% showing a littler wear on cylinder and muzzle, but it did come with the early target stocks and those aren't cheap, anymore. Paid $375 about 2 years ago.


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The only thing that occurs to me is to make sure it is not a re-blue. I looked at one that was really nice with packmayr grips on it and even though I could see no indication at that time of a re-finish, the color was wrong and I passed.
 
Bought it, did not realize that it came with the orginal box:) After doing some research, the poor mans Python is the Colt Model .357 not any of the Troopers.................But the action on this Trooper is super!!!
 
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I have a set of smoothie/combat OEM Colt walnut grips I took off (in 1968) my best friend's new (also in 1968) Colt "357" (model), which was very close to a Trooper.

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My friend was enamored of a set of Sile grips, which I switched out for him - and then, he sold the gun ! :rolleyes:



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I believe that the early Troopers (not the Mark III's) have the same action as a Python. I picked up this 1968 6" Trooper earlier this year for the same price you paid for yours. The trigger feels nearly as good as my '64 Python, it just doesn't have extra weight up front from the heavier Python barrel.

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I believe that the early Troopers (not the Mark III's) have the same action as a Python.
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Yes, mechanically the same but they didn't get the same hand-fitting and tuning that the Pythons did. Great guns all.

Wikipedia has a good discussion of the relationship between the [original] Trooper, the 357, and the Python. Note that the correct name of the gun is 357 (no decimal). I've also seen it called "Three Five Seven" and "Three-Five-Seven" (and once as "Three Fifty Seven"), but on the barrel of mine it clearly says "Colt 357".
 
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