I watched a used 6" nickel .44 mag, in the box with papers Anaconda bring $2,000 at an auction yesterday. Am I missing something here? I was prepared to go less than half of that. If I had 10 of them I'd let them all go for that price.
What you're missing is knowing the absurd prices snake guns command, and that Anacondas were stainless steel, not nickel. That could have actually been a very good price, depending on exact vintage.
None of the other snakes are anything like the Python. To me the Python is one of the few post WWII Colt DA revolvers that was any good.
As far as the other snakes go, the Diamondback is ok. The revolvers like the King Cobra and Anaconda, as well as all the limited models based on them are pretty crudely made guns, in my opinion.
My BIL and FIL each bought 44 magnums in the late 80's for ~$400, on sale at Sport's Authority. After my FIL passed I was offered his Anaconda or Benelli SBE. I chose the Benelli.
The problem was that since the Anaconda didn't sell 100 million units the first six months, they dropped it. Look at the little Sig 380 that looks like a 1911, it was colt's too, and didn't sell either. Sig bought the rights, and away we go!
That idiot general in the head office didn't do too well either.
The truth is that there just aren't that many big bore revolvers out there.
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