Man o man o man, don't even get me started on this stuff!
I've been a firearms afficionado since high school, when I took interest in precision marksmanship, pistol shooting in particular. My collection, for the most part, reflected my participation in varying disciplines, with each has its own set of rules, or "specs", and offers different types of challenges, just like in the racing world. So my collection is quite extensive, from $2k Olympic Rapid Fire Pistols like the Walther OSP to custom built revolvers based on the S &W L frame for the Bianchi Cup (aka NRA Action Pistol). On the rifle side, I got some long range competition grade rifles based on the AR-15 frame to Chinese Dragunov and post ban FN-FAL clones. And the list goes on and on and on........
My favorite gun of all time is the good ole Colt Python (thanks to City Hunter- a popular manga series- the catalyst that turned once skinny teenage skateboarder into an Olympic Shooter), unfortunately haven't been produced by Colt for quite some time, nor I doubt will it ever be produced again. I have almost just about every finish and barrel lengths conceivable, with the exception of the 3" combat python, which had a very limited run in 1989, AND pre 70's production run, like 50's or 60's run. I hear that there were 3 orig. master gunsmiths that works on them since early 50's, and as they get older, their eyesights and some of their skills have deteriorated. It got to the point that by the 90's, most if not all 3 have died of old age or what have you, so they handed the crafting of Pythons to a bunch of novices. And so the quality of Pythons had gone down hill since the late 80's....
AutoPhile,
Got more of them '62 pythons you might be interested in selling?
