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 ...

Key point: The Colt Python was retired by Colt in 2005. The real reason why Colt gave up on such a desirable money maker is unknown In the world of firearms, which gun is truly the best is ...

However, in the world of revolvers, there is one that is clearly head and shoulders above the competition: The Colt Python. It is almost certainly the perfect revolver.

The Colt Python magnum revolver has returned in all its glory and now features upgraded internals that lend the most famous of “snake guns” a new lease on life.

The re-launch of the Colt Python is old news in 2022, but the 3-inch model had yet to be brought back to production until now. This short-barreled version of the .357 Magnum revolver promises to bring ...

Colt Manufacturing Company LLC showed off the reintroduction of its .357 Magnum Python revolver, an icon that disappeared from the market 18 years ago.

-The iconic Smith & Wesson Model 29 (.44 Magnum), the "Dirty Harry gun," remains a wheelgun legend. -The Colt Python (.357 Magnum) is highlighted for its aesthetic beauty and smooth trigger.

But, the Python has generally been considered exceptional by shooters, collectors, etc. for at least a generation. Introduced in 1955, it was intended from the start to be a premium revolver ...

Initially designed to be a .38 Special target revolver, Colt decided instead to chamber it for the .357 magnum cartridge, and history was made. What is exceptional about the Python? A number of ...

Anchorage police said last week the Colt Python .357 magnum revolver James Ritchie used to shoot at a APD officer last weekend, was the same gun used to kill five people in the city over the summer.