Bill Wilson's Colt Python trigger technique with Massad Ayoob

Bill Wilson and Massad Ayoob love Colt Pythons. Bill grew up shooting his Colt Python and it was his first competition gun. Now Bill has quite the collection of rare pythons and he shares some of his collection with Massad. Between the 1/14" rifling twist, and the crisp trigger action, it doesn't get much better than a Colt Python.

ABOUT BILL WILSON Bill Wilson has always been infatuated with guns. Originally trained as a watchmaker, he has been in the firearms industry since 1974, starting out with a retail store called Sportsman's Headquarters in Berryville, Arkansas. Since that humble beginning, he has built Wilson Combat into the largest and most successful custom firearms company in America. Since 1977 Wilson Combat has been the leading innovator in high-performance, custom 1911 handguns, tactical long guns and accessories. A Wilson Combat product’s unmatched level of exceptional reliability and peerless craftsmanship is only equaled by our legendary customer service. Wilson Combat is proud to service all levels of local and State law enforcement including The Department of Homeland Security, US Border Patrol, HQ SOCOM, US Marshal's Service, US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Diplomatic Security Service, Texas Rangers and many more elite law enforcement and military units worldwide. We are also pleased to support the needs of thousands of law-abiding private citizens in the United States and in many other countries abroad.

ABOUT MASSAD AYOOB:
Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement columnist for AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s, and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals. He is the author of some twenty books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including “In the Gravest Extreme” and “Deadly Force,” widely considered to be authoritative texts on the topic of the use of lethal force.

The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Mas has won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob was the first person to earn the title of Five Gun Master in the International Defensive Pistol Association. He is the current President of the Second Amendment Foundation. He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught
for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.

Mas has received judicial recognition as an expert witness for the courts in weapons and shooting cases since 1979, and served as a fully sworn and empowered, part time police officer for 43 years, mostly at supervisor rank. Ayoob founded the Lethal Force Institute in 1981 and served as its director until 2009, and now trains through Massad Ayoob Group. He has
appeared on CLE-TV delivering continuing legal education for attorneys, through the American Law Institute and American Bar Association, and has been retained to train attorneys to handle deadly force cases through the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network. Ayoob served for two
years as co-vice chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He also appeared in each episode of Personal Defense TV (Sportsman’s Channel).

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[s.l.]

I’m taking donations in Colt Pythons. Ya know, for charity.

[aidanvandera]

I love how he pulled the trigger exactly six times

[Nathan-nndp]

I have the 2020 Colt Python. I carry it around and I love it.

[nospam]

Squeezes through a DA several times, and the barrel doesn't shake at all. That's some impressive trigger control.

[dwcrispin]

Carried a 4 digit serial nickel Python on duty in the mid 70’s. Smoothest trigger of any firearm I’ve ever had. One unique issue with Python has been cylinder going out of alignment and shaving bullets and affecting accuracy and safety. Also had a “softer” hammer strike than Smith and Wesson and occasionally failed to fire. And its damn heavy. When you wear it on a gun belt 10-12 hours you know its there!

[justintyme]

Imagine being able to afford hundreds of thousands of anything

[sweetdrahthaar]

I bought a preowned 4 inch blue python for my dad that was mint in 1972 for $325.00. He never fired it ! I’m pretty sure it had never been fired before I bought it. And he gave it to me a while back before he passed away. It is a cherished heirloom. I don’t have anybody to pass it down to so it will be going on the block soon. I put less than one box of cartridges through it. RIP dad. You are missed😘

[boostimalaka]

Bill Wilson loves the original Python and has thousands of rounds fired through them without the timing issues people claim.

[steelshrapnel]

Same works for subgun competitors! I’ve shot NFA registered submachine gun competitions since late 80s and I struggled mastering semi-auto handgun. It’s completely different trigger control, but t I’m getting better focused on achieving!

[Odinthesleepy]

Can't agree. The s&w 19-2 is the finest shooter revolver ever produced

[AA-nxki]

Look at mossads face that smile says it all he's a true gun lover

[machone]

Pretty cool to hear these words from a respected guy who made a fortune off of 1911's

[oz_nola]

Bro out here walking around slinging Rick Grimes signature weapon

[smithn.wesson]

Bill Wilson is 100% right - a very good lesson to learn.

[dkel]

Saw some of the new colt pythons yesterday at my local Ace Hardware yesterday, absolutely beautiful.

[Mauser.K.Guy.]

My first handgun training was a Beretta 96D. Double action only. I still, to this day, am on and then off of the trigger lickity split.

[stevecochran]

Old school Colt Pythons are a work of art.

[JL-pjkk]

If it was anyone other than Bill Wilson. Particularly a younger gun guy on YouTube; the core audience of this Channel would freak out for dry firing a revolver, particularly an original python.

[SoMiSongbird]

I absolutely love Colt Pythons... specially the 8 inch, absolute beaut

[yellowboxster]

Yup, totally agree. Now shooting my new Python has just reinforced that style.