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Everyone talks about the Python, but not nearly as many talk about the predecessor. The Colt 3 5 7 Magnum revolver was first and it has the same internals as the Python right down to the same silky smooth action. Of course it doesn't have the full lug with the ventilated rib and the Royal blue...

Everyone talks about the Python, but not nearly as many talk about the predecessor. The Colt 3 5 7 Magnum revolver was first and it has the same internals as the Python right down to the same silky smooth action. Of course it doesn't have the full lug with the ventilated rib and the Royal blue...

Everyone talks about the Python, but not nearly as many talk about the predecessor. The Colt 3 5 7 Magnum revolver was first and it has the same internals as the Python right down to the same silky smooth action. Of course it doesn't have the full lug with the ventilated rib and the Royal blue...

Everyone talks about the Python, but not nearly as many talk about the predecessor. The Colt 3 5 7 Magnum revolver was first and it has the same internals as the Python right down to the same silky smooth action. Of course it doesn't have the full lug with the ventilated rib and the Royal blue...

........and a couple more Colts. Colt Official Police manufactured in 1935 (top) and a Colt Detective Special made in 1968 - my birth year.

Well since everyone is showing their favorite Smith & Wesson revolvers I'll play along. Here are a couple of mine. Model 19-4 (top) and the Model 49 Bodyguard.

You have my full sympathy.

Those are something else aren't they.

I got my first kidney stone back in 1985 when I was seventeen. Over the past 35 years I've had five confirmed kidney stones. I've had three procedures. The last one was in the spring of 2013. They are truly awful, but they also helped to save my life. In the spring of 2012 I had a stone and the...

One of those guns that one owns because they are cool and romantic, but not necessarily practical.

Everyone talks about the Python, but not nearly as many talk about the predecessor. The Colt 3 5 7 Magnum revolver was first and it has the same internals as the Python right down to the same silky smooth action. Of course it doesn't have the full lug with the ventilated rib and the Royal blue...

Still here and I did get it out to the range. A few weeks after I purchased it my father passed away unexpectedly so there was a long delay before I finally got around to taking to the range as in almost a couple of years. I replaced the springs with Wolff springs (to include the magazine...

Coming a bit late to this topic, but I own several back-issues of "Guns" magazine from the early sixties. In the January 1963 issue there is an article from Col. Charles Askins about hunting in the Vietnam central highlands. If you are curious "Guns" has put all of it's back issues on the...