Re: Why (only) Colt doesn't make polymer, striker-fired pist

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wlewisiii wrote:
swissdog wrote: Similarly if they brought back the Python in some form.
They can't. Not at an affordable price. The hand fitting needed to make a Python would make an English Best Shotgun look cheap and if they tried to go MIM or any other modern technology, the traditionalists would gather pitchforks and torches (probably literally given the hell they give S&W over it). A smith friend of mine once estimated that just the labor cost would be about $3000 to make a Python the old way: They made boxes of almost interchangeable parts and then fit each one to the pistol. Every Python is unique and the internal parts from one will not fit into another without serious fitting.

Colt will keep coasting as long as they can until they're nothing more than a memory like Parker or L. C. Smith...
You have to ask yourself about the skill of the workers at Colt being able to make a Python anymore. Hand fitting hasnt been their game for a while. Assembling M4's isnt the same as hand making a revolver. Look at companys like Ruger who built plants away from the industrial NE and are now having QC problems with low wage employees. They dont really have shop classes like they did in HS and if pops isnt working in the gun plant chances are jr wont go that route either. Once a skill is lost its hard to replace.
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