When will Colt start making Pythons in Royal Blue?

Ruger blues a bunch of their guns. They even put good polish on some of them too! I think a lot of people are just not paying attention.
 
I picked up one of the new Royal Blue 1911s and the polish is very nice. If Colt can do that on a Python, they’ll sell truckloads.
 
Colt won’t tell you anything until the press release comes out. It’s common for leaks online to proceed the official announcement.

Colt could be releasing something next Tuesday and a phone call on Monday wouldn’t get you anywhere.
 
You guys act like Colt is your local corner gunstore gunsmith who won't give you a treat. One reason they quit making Pythons in the first place is they got tired of being held hostage by the UAW over when and how the union workers would do anything. It's not that all the old workers are retired, they could train new ones. Colt looked real hard at which guns required the minimum of hand work and focused on those guns. Yes, some people still want a revolver, but revolvers are more of a novelty or range toy nowadays, nobody carries a revolver for serious work. Revolvers need LOTS of hand work to be really smooth and nice, and people keep looking at the pricetag and shaking their heads so the manufacturers drop the expensive to make guns and focus on the guns that cost less. That's why Colt focused on 1911s 40 years ago.
 
Unfortunately making cheaper staff is the way to go not just just for revolvers. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find full metal pistol models. Plastic is cheap and a lot of people do not care as long as it's accurate and light.
 
Wrong. Colt priced themselves out of the market. Also at the first gov. contract for M16's they scaled back civilian gun production back to almost ZERO. They have done this several times. Did ya know Colt once owned HOLLY carburators?.......LOTS of misinformation be spewed out there.
Revolvers are not a novelty or range toy......All the BIG BOOMERS are revolvers. They are as popular as ever.........Not everyone wants a plastic....pew....pew.
 
I certainly do not want plastics anymore and I agree that Colt products are overpriced. I dont't see much hope coming from the new owner CZ. After CZ bought Dan Wesson they did not nake their pistils any cheaper and they discontinued production of the DW revolver. CZ 1911 was a great product for a very good price but that was just a one time special. I did not even get one because I was too late to the party.
 
While carbon steel is entirely adequate for handguns, it rusts. Bluing is the least protective coating for carbon steel.
Stainless has superseded carbon steel, as a rule.
There is no real reason to use it today.
 
Good point Bill... but isn't carbon steel a little bit harder and resistant to mechanical stress than stainless?
 
On the flipside, there's no real reason not to use it either. Stainless may be a bit easier to maintain but folks seem to do just fine with guns that are not dishwasher safe.
 
I have a a couple of highly polished stainless Colts that surpasses some nickel finishes I have seen. Below is a Python (lighting doesn't do it justice) and a 1911.

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They are beautiful gun, but still not as nice as a nice blued Python:

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If Colt produced new Pythons with a high-quality black DLC coating, that may well be the ‘ultimate’ finish for the pieces. They would sell every one they could make- just as they do the current new Pythons-, without a doubt.
 
Probably if the demand and profit justifies it.

There is a niche in the market for very high-end classic revolver like the vintage Python. Colt might come out with a limited edition series with all the glory of past vintage Pythons and mark a price tag that costs perhaps 4 times of the current SS pythons. And you know what, there are going to be people willing to pay for it because it is a mind game when it comes to owning the best of the best regardless of the practicality side of what the firearm is really for.
 
There is no real reason to use it today.
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Why thank you for the unequivocal conclusion, and thank you for speaking for the entire firearms industry. Just tell all those rifle manufacturers to stop using blued carbon barrels. By your opined absolute, why make revolvers at all? I am told by many that there is no room for these antiquated limiting designs given the plethora of semi autos available. When was the last time you saw one used as a primary weapon by law enforcement? "There is no real reason to use it today." I suppose I should also get rid of all my manual transmissions as well. I could list countless parallels that would fit your logic.

How about because I happen to like the looks of a blued revolver better?? Is that a good enough reason?
 
How many blued guns have rusted to the point of looking terrible?
How many blued guns have been "reblued" and ruined?
Look- I make knives, and I use carbon steel almost exclusively. I have nothing against it. Certain gun parts are better made of carbon steel, but the major parts can be made of stainless easily.
 
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