Sam Colt would shoot these idiots and piss in the entrance wound, screw them!
Can't disagree with most of that, but I still get a little misty about that Python. Some machines are just machines, but some have soul. If you gave me a thousand dollars and told me to buy a revolver today, it would probably be a Ruger. You won't go wrong. But no Ruger wheel gun I've ever shot, and that's most of them, compared to that Python.
FQ13 who is officially an old fart on this one. Generally, I don't buy the "We don't make them like we used to" line. Here however its true. And more than that its, more a case of "We don't make them like we used to, but we could, and we don't, and I don't understand why".