Barrel Swaping?

[austinkroe]

I have a beautiful nickel Colt Python with an 8" barrel. The thing is, I mostly shoot IDPA and I am interested in starting to use a wheelgun.

If I buy a new 4" barrel:

How hard is it to change the barrels?

Can I do it myself?

How do you change them?

Is it worth it?

Should I just get a new gun and not tear up such a fine revolver?

Edited February 25, 2006 by austinkroe

[n2ipsc]

I have a beautiful nickel Colt Python with an 8" barrel.

Should I just get a new gun and not tear up such a fine revolver?

This would be my vote, my financial dictator not withstanding... "Beautiful Pythons" are increasingly scarce - and two in the hand is better than one in the gunsmiths' shop, to butcher a hackneyed cliché

[michaels]

If you really like Pythons, but don't have one, make one...get a Trooper, they sell much cheaper and put a 4" barrel on it, get the double action fixed and if you want to be really trick, get it hard chromed. One of kind sort of...been seeing a couple of these around lately, haven't seen any decent speed loaders for them...

You could go with a Smolt, get an older Smith 38/357 and drop the Python barrel on it, then you could use Comp 3 loaders on it...makes for an interesting looking gun...

michaels

[revchuck]

You could also find yourself a 4" Official Police, like I did. Same action and frame size, same speedloaders, just a non-underlugged barrel and pretty visible fixed sights.

[MikeFoley]

Your Python will bring enough on today's market to build two S&W's.

Edited February 26, 2006 by fomeister

[spook]

I'm with most guys here. Keep the Colt as is and get a beat up gun to play the practical games with