If anyone attempted to produce a gun like the Colt Python the labor costs would drive the price to absurd levels (if you could even find enough fitters who could actually do it). It was not a mass produced firearm like the guns we buy today. It cannot be built with mass production techniques - not even with CAD/CAM. Just look at the junk S&W is turning out now using their modern CAD/CAM techniques. The action on that revolver was hand fitted like a fine Swiss watch by guys who spent many years learning how to do it. Those guys are either in a retirement home or have passed away. Colt would give the fitters a box of parts and tell them to fit them perfectly - even it it takes all day to make ONE. Sadly, those days are long gone. The only reason that Colt didn't expire years ago was Govt. contracts and consumers who would buy a Colt just because of that little horse stamped on it. Just like Harley Davidson. The reason these old American iconic companies keep getting bought out over and over is because the investors know that the product, however unworthy, will still sell to an uninformed market because of the name stamped on it. Then they run it into the ground again and someone else buys the name. It's a very different world now. People buy the name and expect the old quality. It's not there anymore.
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