2020 Python vs S&W 686

oh bother me right now i'm busy yeah i'm busy comparing a couple of firearms uh so if y'all have something else to do no we're glad you came just kidding hitchcock 45 comparing the python with the 686 okay shooting it uh give you a couple of impressions while we have the four inch python four and a quarter inch to be exact thought i would oh because i've talked about the 686 a lot 586 and and how they compare and which i'd rather have maybe and all that kind of thing so let me do a little uh just a little quick comparison and uh you might be trying to make the same decision maybe you have made the decision maybe you made a mistake maybe you're afraid you made a mistake maybe i will confirm that you made a big blunder or maybe i will uh confirm that you did not make a mistake i don't know you don't pay attention to what i say i got two 686s out here got a new one 686 plus well relatively new you've seen that i've had that for a while get several videos on it that's got the ugly key lock you know that's the seven shot model with the uh frame mounted fire pin and everything so it's a little bit of the discussion but since i happen to have a four inch 686 and this is essentially four inch python four and a quarter uh similar guns they weigh the same they shoot the same cartridge they look something alike and you could say that smith and wesson copied the python right when they went to the l frame because that's kind of what the python is same weight frame more or less and with the underlook full under lug you know that was i think in about 1980 the 686 came out the 586 i guess was a little before that maybe maybe not and uh i forgot what i know about it but they're very similar the thing you're missing especially the most noticeable with the 686 is what the beautiful rib on the top of that barrel that's what really distinguishes the python doesn't it it just it just sets it off and is i guess there's some people somewhere that don't think it looks good maybe but i've never met one uh generally they're just considered gorgeous even if you don't like colt you don't like the python or any of the cult revolvers and never have you have to admit the colt python is a gorgeous firearm it really is and i've always i've been one of the first to admit i've had four or five of them over the years but uh that i always traded them off because i preferred the grip and the feel and actually shooting of the 686 of the smith and wesson you know even a k frame or whatever they just have always felt better to me and operationally and everything i've tried to like the pythons and i do like them uh but i've ended up trading them off or other other smiths generally speaking right so but they're beautiful and they're great guns and you know it does come down to that to some extent for people and their preferences it's what they're going to do with them and how much they shoot how much experience they've had shooting let's be honest as i've said before you could pick me on a nascar racetrack i've never driven a race car and you could pull out what you consider the best car in the race and the worst car in the race somebody just getting into it doesn't have the money natives don't have as much as many millions in their nascar vehicle you know and i could drive them both around that track and i probably wouldn't be able to tell any difference you know because i'm inexperienced you know not in driving but with that kind of car i just after a while maybe a few years i would right but in the same with firearms the less experience you have the less difference you notice okay that makes sense but anyway i don't get off on that one that topic too much the python uh you know again this is the uh i don't know maybe i'll link to the python well the first video on this uh four inch model perhaps uh you know nice gun apparently colt very quickly colt has you know had some problems early on with the action mainly it looks like the side plate was loosening up a little bit and then hammer spring they had a few light strikes on some this wasn't like widespread everybody that bought them or anything but there were enough of them that they addressed it and they've strengthened the hammer spring i guess and they've tightened up that screw and they've addressed that problem we've shot two of them pretty extensively the last month month or two and you know not any issues with them okay so uh they seem well made now and uh and i'm pretty impressed with them for you know some negatives but i'm pretty impressed with them so but mainly i wanted to compare it while we still have it with uh with my 686 and i think i mentioned earlier in another video that i was i was really interested in buying a four inch when they came out with the new python the 2020s and it was so long coming out i ended up buying this 686 couldn't turn it down it has the combat the grips and everything just feels great and i like a 686 great shooter and everything uh so i went ahead with that so i don't know about the four and a quarter python or not i like it a great shooter if i'll have to have one have to have one or not but i like it all right so comparison-wise like i said i just shot them i'm gonna shoot them again with some magnums they're about the same weight of course the barrel on the the colt is a little bit longer a quarter of an inch but i i weighed them and they come out about the same uh i got heavier maybe bigger grips on this so maybe kind of evens out there's not enough difference to write home about okay the weights about the same in these two configurations uh they're both very popular firearms my gosh i talked about iconic a a four inch python and a four inch you know 686 you know you can't beat either one can you so you can't go wrong with either one they both are great shooters let's put some on the gong how about a ram i'm gonna shoot a ram instead of a buffalo today [Music] all right how about a cowboy with a magnum dead singer how about uh let's smoke a pot before we go too far here i tried to shoot him before he fell i had no bullets left i couldn't do it that was going to be impressive if i had hit that can before it fell all right so uh yeah that's a nice shooter let's load this one up and then whoops what was i shooting i was shooting magnums oh i know what i must have done i must have stuck some magnums in the end of that box yeah yeah i did uh as i was uh arranging the ammo we've been shooting here messing around yeah i said they look dramatically different and uh i just pulled out the the six magnums from the end of that those were definitely magnums i just shot believe me you can tell when you pull the trigger right uh there's no mistaking a 38 special for a 357 magnum you people who shoot have shot them you know what i'm talking about all right now let's see i haven't shot this as much so we won't be too judgmental on the gun i'll try the buffalo all right try the gone boom and how about oh we don't have any pot with the smoke do we there's a paint can an old paint can right there though and another one and a bowling pin i think that's six it is good shooter all right so the bottom line is uh there was really no need to do a video i could have just done a posting said hey there's not enough difference between these two revolvers buy the one nah there are some things to talk about we've talked about a little bit of it already the grip is different uh i this the smith feels better even with this has kind of custom the combat smith and wesson grips on it but even with the standard magnum grips big grips or whatever uh they come on these they feel better to me than the colt grips always have that's that's one of the reasons i've always traded off the pythons i don't think there were as many grip options back in the 70s 80s you know when i was doing most of my guns well not most of it but my early gun trading and buying selling that kind of thing and then two it's such a beautiful firearm the python that i think i was always resistant to switch out the grips you know on it i just these they're just beautiful the grips look good the gun's beautiful and just wanted to kind of keep them the way they were and because of the cylinder latch you pull it to open it that's one of the big differences okay so we're doing kind of a versus video here when you're shooting and you're empty and you get a click you're in combat and it's time to reload now the way i do it people do it differently i used to shoot one of these in some competition in uspsa for about a year messed around with it when you're empty all right there's your thumb on that latch it's just so simple pushing forward open it up this way i did it bring it down pop the rounds out grab more rounds put them in i did with my right hand you're back up in action okay uh and that's one reason most people now i tell me if i'm wrong i don't do the uspsa thing these days no time for that but uh most people in revolver competition when i was messing around with this they were maybe a 625 i did that too you know with the full moon clips uh where they're all in in the clip but if they're using a revolver like this one of these i don't remember anybody using a python okay or a colt there might have been somebody it was because that's a gun they had or whatever the 686 was really popular i think still is model 27s are really popular for that and part of that is because you're pushing forward on that thing and it just it just seems more intuitive okay whereas with the colt the python as great a gun as it is when you're empty you got to kind of it's just shift your grip more and pull on that cylinder latch okay from there on it's about you know the same of course you back up in action but pulling on the cylinder latch is just not as intuitive i've never liked that as much not a big deal at all you know just planking around shooting and even in competition you learn to deal with that sort of thing but it is a point worthy of being made i think uh this gun the python's supposed to be like the ultimate revolver okay if you've ever been around people to compete or in race car or whatever they're doing you know guys are we guys are and i guess women too during the competition but we never hesitate to spend whatever we have to to to have the best equipment you know and it's not like in basketball you can't buy your way into being a better basketball player by buying a more expensive basketball as easily right uh you need to shoot it or you can't sometimes though in competition you know a better gun will help you a little bit not and that won't solve your problems but it'll help you a little bit so people are always willing to spend the money for that edge so what i'm getting at the python's supposed to be has a history a reputation being one of the most accurate revolvers ever made laser bore sighted and all that and it is very accurate and old and the new ones i'm assuming too all right well-made revolver expensive how come i never saw these in competition and i'm not sure you do today anybody know of anybody shooting a python in revolver competition in uspsa action shooting that sort of stuff it's just not popular and i don't i'd be surprised if i'm sure someone does and someone will tell me yeah there's five people in my club that shoot them i would be really surprised at that okay so so that just gets speaks to the ergonomics i think i'm talking about also to the economics because they're more expensive right and also maybe that timing issue that you know some people think is a myth and i'm not sure uh that it gets out of timing you're gonna get to your gunsmith to fix it all that sort of thing whereas you don't have as much of that with a smith and wesson probably more grip different grip combinations available for the smith and wesson maybe even more sites available because so many people do uh have the more people would have the smith and wesson probably and just like anything else so it's really popular there's going to be more aftermarket that kind of thing for it so anyway just a different feel so as far as comparing uh the python again in this the new python uh really about twice as expensive as this so you get a new now this is a newer 686 it's a three inch but uh yeah i don't know what this thing sells for now seven eight hundred bucks or something you know uh same for this one maybe eight nine you know an older one just depends but you're talking 15 16 maybe 17 i don't know for a python right now they may come down in price with availability increase the availability but you're talking about almost twice the amount of money as far as going to a gun shop today and if you happen upon say this python is in a shop someone has one or online and then someone has a new 686 in the same barrel length you're probably talking about twice the amount of money okay so price twice as much on a python for me not as ergonomic maybe not the story for you as far as quality and everything no real problem no problem some people i think on the python especially the old ones they have more of a problem reaching the hammer easily not a problem for me of course my large hands uh so on that now you could argue that on the python you get a smoother action it's more glassy you know we always say it's like glass and it is even on the 2020 python it's smooth i mean it just oh boy you could just sit and cop [ __ ] that thing all day because it just is so uh enjoyable soothing you know so rewarding it just feels great if you're a firearms person you know it's so like oh boy somebody did some polishing on that somehow okay and even in double action it's very smooth okay the smith no problems but you don't have that that same feel you know you don't you just don't have it okay now most of you are not uh trying to decide between these to go compete probably uh if you like to shoot double action though part of it is the grip ergonomics but i i don't feel like i can shoot double action even though it's a nice smooth double action it i don't know the gun moves on me john kind of likes it better i think the way it recoils up in his hand uh i prefer the smith on that in fact let's shoot some magnums here again i'll just shoot double action for most people there's not enough difference to write home about in terms of the shootability and everything you have to always remember i've shot a great deal and it doesn't make me any smarter anybody else but i have a lot of experience and so i've become maybe more opinionated in some ways on some of these issues let me load them both so there's not much lag time between and i'll i'll shoot them both double action here to remind myself and again you can change out the grips on the python and it would be a better feeling firearm maybe for you it would be for me if i just put the vintage python grips on it that a little thicker as i mentioned before in some of the earlier python videos you know with this gun and the six inch model both so i'm just gonna shoot double action mess around here i think the sights are on well enough so as far as being able to hit something i can't blame it on the sights oh i don't know let's just move around here okay well that's fresh on my mind uh i don't know uh you know they both kind of want to move out of my hand i'll tell you the truth so i think when i really lock in on this one i can hold it better without it moving on me than this grip but you probably wouldn't notice that much difference maybe i notice it more with lighter ammo with the magnums both of them wanna uh need readjusting a little bit let me put 38 specials in while i'm thinking of some other lies to tell you about it see some 38 special plus p appreciate premium uh federal premium furnishing this ammo i'm not sure i thanked everybody yet but you know we're so lucky uh to have support from the sonoran desert institute you know sdi.edu you can take some distance learning you know get into gunsmithing a career in firearms technology take the gi bill so be sure you you keep them in mind they're a great supporter of ours just like you know budsgunshop.com where this came from it'll be going back to you for the e-gunner auction so we appreciate their help and of course the food here so i think i didn't thank the people that make this possible yet so don't forget that so i'm going to shoot 38s uh you know there's lots of reasons we we buy firearms right uh pride of ownership just the quality uh or because the opposite because it was just it shoots it does what it's supposed to do and it didn't cost much you know there's a lot of guns that fill that category right uh when you get into either one of these you're getting into a nicer revolver you're into the smith and west and the cult world and of course the expensive side of the cult world you're in the python category right uh both firearms are great you would enjoy either one if you like revolvers and uh you're just going out to target shoot occasionally yeah and you just love the feel and the looks of a python you've always wanted a python hey go for it go for it uh again i'm a little influenced just both because i like the i don't say speed shoot i don't do that much anymore but just the ergonomics of the smith i i like but i enjoyed both of them enjoy shooting both of them it's really been fun to have the pythons back and and be shooting both this one and the six inch 2020 python so much you know i've got my own too made in 1981 i haven't had but gosh what about a year so after going for a long time decades really without having pythons like i shot one once we borrowed it it's been kind of fun to get back into it remind myself why i hate them so much no i don't hate them but why i prefer the feel of the smith all right all right what was i going to do i was just going to shoot i'll do a little double and a little single how about double action cowboy nice shooter those are more pleasant to shoot i'll say all right let's go double action on the target over here signal action and i think i'm empty yeah uh this one i have to be careful uh it has a light trigger boy it's single single action it's light it's really light i think maybe it's been worked on okay so it's hard to compare uh apple's apples on that those are all empty cases uh the the the python you know it's a nice single action trigger it's it's light enough you would have no problem with that the other one was the same way the six incher my 1981 python you know the trigger's fine it's just about right single action double action is smooth and so you know you would not uh have a problem with the action on it at all and uh this new newer uh 686 it's a three inch that's why i'm not really comparing and shooting is uh is sweet it's got a nice double action it's got a really nice single action okay so i don't know either one you would like and uh the python's just beautiful isn't it if if uh for right now i had the the choice yeah we borrow the these from you know buds of course we just borrow those and they have to go back uh man if if for some reason i could send either one of these back for the e-gunner and just keep the other one it just didn't matter i i i would have a tough choice on these two i would as much as i have talked about some preferences with the 686 uh this is a pretty good really pretty and a good shooter and you know i was thinking about buying one anyway and this sort of changed my mind but you never know uh i'm gonna i'm gonna say uh you need to try them both they're both beautiful if you've never had a python you know and you've got the money you know the the finances are not an issue you might want to go that route you know over smith and wesson there's a ton of 586s and or 686s out there they're still making them and they're great guns everybody knows about them they're going to be available forever of course the pythons are a little harder to find if you really like these you know go for it but so i haven't helped you a lot because i'm not sure i'm not sure which one i would advise you on they're both great guns they're great shooters and mainly you need to have a revolver because they're a lot of fun they really are and the smith is is not a bad looking gun either it's just that the old python as i always say is kind of a supermodel of all firearms perhaps especially revolvers okay so price wise you're talking about twice as much money probably and but you know great gun uh 2020 python or or a vintage and a link to the first video and hopefully you've seen the other video on the six inch version and even the very first video we did where we had a problem with it and we've talked about that and uh you know colt has addressed it so all that's out there so do your research before you buy either one because you would have to decide if you did say hey i need one of those do you need a vintage 686 do you need a new one do you need a vintage python do you want a 20 20 version you know so you have decisions to make maybe you're not going to buy either one so you have no decisions to make other than am i going to keep watching this video he's gone way too long yeah i've never done that before ever so anyway we look at that mess we and i've got this stuff out here not because i was expecting trouble but with a revolver you never know i do have my screwdrivers handy you know and uh my cleaning van my brush if you get some uh powder residue behind that that extractor and you have a little bit of trouble you have big trouble you got to clean it before it'll work again okay generally speaking when you have a clean revolver you load it up and shoot you're not going to have trouble but maybe after you've shot several cylinders something like that does happen and you need to clean it before it will really work for you again so anyway like i said i'm going too long appreciate you supporting the people that support us and uh you know let me know if you have either one of these and whatever barrel length and why you prefer uh one over the other okay i've given you some of the reasons i prefer the smith and what i like about the the colt uh if you have in many of you if you've been collecting guns and shooting for a number of years or decades you've had experience with both what is it that you like to help you know new viewers what is it that you really like about the cold or the python specifically over the smith or vice versa you know you had bad experiences with one over the other certain areas let us know let the viewers know okay good to see y'all life is good oh yeah that's better this is a great gun for the fence oh hey didn't see you guys there uh while i've got you here i want to remind you of our friends over at talon grips and ballistal italian grips makes uh grips can you believe it for all different types of firearms you can get rough texture or more of a rubberized texture just sticks right on there you know 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Published: Thu Aug 27 2020