{"id":29692,"date":"2020-01-20T22:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T04:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=29692"},"modified":"2020-01-20T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T04:32:15","slug":"29692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=29692","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Well, this is underwhelming. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cZcN3Supiq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/shot-2020-tfb-industry-day-at-the-range-colt-python\/\">[SHOT 2020] TFB Industry Day At The Range &#8211; Colt Python<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;[SHOT 2020] TFB Industry Day At The Range &#8211; Colt Python&#8221; &#8212; The Firearm Blog\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/shot-2020-tfb-industry-day-at-the-range-colt-python\/embed\/#?secret=cZcN3Supiq\" data-secret=\"cZcN3Supiq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #686868; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Hits and Hiccups&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colt had both the 4.25 inch and 6 inch Pythons available to shoot. \u00a0I opted for the 6\u2033, as I was interested in the balance of the longer barrel. \u00a0The revolver points very naturally, exactly like an old Python. \u00a0The double action pull was very smooth and consistent, though does not \u201cstage\u201d the hammer at all like the old Pythons. \u00a0Single action pulls were very crisp, though just a tad heavier than the old Pythons. \u00a0Colt said the heavier pull weight was needed to pass modern drop test requirements. \u00a0In both modes, targets were simple to hit out to 50 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, after only 7 rounds of Colt\u2019s National Match .38 Special, I experienced a failure to advance the cylinder. \u00a0A few other reviewers have experienced this issue as well. \u00a0Colt is aware of the issue (likely a failure of the hand to rebound), and ask that anyone experiencing this issue send their Pythons in for assessment and repair. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This may be a teething issue, but it seems like Colt should have done more due diligence to prevent this issue from occurring to customers in the first place.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is underwhelming. [SHOT 2020] TFB Industry Day At The Range &#8211; Colt Python &#8220;Hits and Hiccups&#8221; Colt had both the 4.25 inch and 6 inch Pythons available to shoot. \u00a0I opted for the 6\u2033, as I was interested in the balance of the longer barrel. \u00a0The revolver points very naturally, exactly like an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=29692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29693,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions\/29693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}