New for this year, Colt re-introduces the shorted version of the Python made with a 3" barrel.

Despite the short barrel, the Colt Python 3" is outfitted with a full-size set of "Coke-bottle" stocks, which have a squared-off butt and fine checkering, along with an inset Colt escutcheon.

I’m a big fan of the Python. I bought my own — the above mentioned “Ultimate” Python, a six-inch barrel version — the first time I got my hands on one. And, I fell for these guns the ...

A nine-inch barrel made it the firearm of choice for mounted cavalry, and Colt’s follow-up was the more refined Dragoon series of revolvers.