{"id":32009,"date":"2026-02-21T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=32009"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:35:22","slug":"a-pietta-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/a-pietta-python\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pietta Python?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

This is really cool:\u00a0 Pietta is coming out with a reproduction of the original Colt Python, and rumor has it that it will sell for about half what a new Python costs.\u00a0 That puts the pre-tariff price at $750.\u00a0 Pietta plans to call it the Blacktooth.\u00a0 I don’t know about that name, but I don’t make thousands of guns like Pietta does.\u00a0 I’m thinking something like Copperhead<\/em> would be a good name for this handgun.\u00a0 Copperhead would make an obvious connection with Python and Colt’s serpent-themed sixguns, and it sort of ties in with copper-jacketed bullets.\u00a0 Maybe put a touch of copper plating on the gun, too, to complete the copper connection (the trigger or the hammer, the grip medallions, or maybe the screws).\u00a0 Maybe even offer a tuned version with an action job, and call it the Competition Copperhead? Eh, what do I know?<\/p>\n

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A Pietta Copperhead?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Python story goes like this:\u00a0 Colt originally produced the Python in 1955 as a premium double action revolver, and then it was discontinued in 1999.\u00a0 The original Pythons had hand-fitted components, and it just got too expensive to make.\u00a0 I’ve heard it said that they went out of time quickly, and the frames tended to stretch with full bore .357 Mag loads.\u00a0 I owned a couple of these original Pythons, and they were beautiful guns, but they both went down the road when in my youthful ignorance I decided I needed something else more.\u00a0 Colt reintroduced the new Python with redesigned internals and frames in 2020, and I quickly snapped up one.\u00a0 It’s a beautiful handgun, and I’ve written about it a lot on these pages (I’ll provide links at the end of this blog).<\/p>\n

How is it that Pietta, an Italian gunmaker known for producing copies of Old West sixguns, is able to copy the original Colt Python?\u00a0 Well, Partner, I don’t know, but I’m guessing Colt’s patent on the original Python expired and Pietta picked it up.\u00a0 \u00a0 That’s what happened on the Colt 1911 (the .45 Auto) and why so many companies are now producing the 1911.<\/p>\n

I’m guessing that the Pietta Python won’t be available in California (at least initially) for a while (or maybe ever) due to our nutty gun laws, but who knows…maybe Pietta will succeed in getting the thing California approved.\u00a0 I sure hope so.\u00a0 Or maybe I’ll buy a house and live part time in a state that respects the U.S. Constitution so I can have access to the guns California prohibits.\u00a0 Texas or Tennessee come to mind.<\/p>\n

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More Python?\u00a0 You bet.\u00a0 Here are our earlier Python related posts:<\/p>\n

Python versus Blackhawk<\/a>
\n110-Grain Python Load<\/a>
\nPython TJ Trigger<\/a>
\nPython Update<\/a>
\nNew Python Range Test<\/a>
\nNew Colt Python<\/a>
\nA Colt Visit<\/a>
\nBoudreau Bullets<\/a>
\nA Pair of Prancing Ponies<\/a><\/p>\n

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A New Book?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m thinking of doing another book on guns.\u00a0 It would be a two-volume series.\u00a0 What I have in mind is a compendium of expanded articles based on our firearms-related blogs, with a working title of Tales of a Gun Collector<\/em>.\u00a0 Volume 1 would be rifles; Volume II would be handguns.\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 Let us know by leaving a comment below, and thanks in advance for your inputs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Speaking of Colt…did you know that the original Gatling guns were manufactured by Colt in Hartford, Connecticut?\u00a0 All that and more is in The Gatling Gun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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