Pietta has just announced a new .357 Magnum double-action revolver with a design inspired by the classic Colt Python.
We don’t know much about it yet, but Pietta of Italy is making a clone of the iconic Colt Python .357 Magnum DA/SA revolver. We’re not even sure what it will be officially called yet, as one graphic released by Pietta refers to it as the PDA .357 Magnum and another calls it the Blacktooth. Regardless, the graphic bearing the Blacktooth moniker became the cover photo for Pietta’s Facebook account last month along with the text “Coming 2026.” It’s safe to assume that we’ll be learning more about it at SHOT Show in a couple of weeks.
Much of what we know about Pietta’s Python clone comes from the Italian firearms publication Armi e Tiro’s video on it. The big takeaways are that the revolver is practically identical to the original Colt design and that the initial model offered will feature a 6-inch barrel, a blued finish, adjustable sights and walnut grips. It appears to be already available in Italy, so its production status isn’t in question, but its availability and price in the U.S. are.
In Italy, Pietta’s Python clone is carrying a price tag of 1,200 euros, which is about 1,400 USD at the current exchange rate. The street price for an equivalent model of new production Colt Python is also about $1,400, so it will be interesting to see whether Pietta can price it on the American market low enough to be competitive.
Either way, we’ll be keeping an eye out at SHOT for one. We’ll report back once we know more.
For more information, visit piettafirearms.com.
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I bought a brand new colt python last year. Shoots great and the trigger pull single or double action is great. It is a very accurate revolver. Anybody complaining about the colt python; Remember they are uaw made. Probably won’t be long people will be bitching about their pietta. If you buy a pietta keep some blue loctite handy.
1200€ in italy against 2500-3000€ for a colt python
That’s pretty a good deals, cant wait to arrive in France
If this clone has interchangeable parts with the “real original” Python I am all for it.
I hate the double action pull on the “Ersatz” new MiM cast Junk Python from Colt
I hate the new “junk rear site” on the “Ersatz Python from Colt.
Lets hope this “new Python” is a true resurrection and it will cause the immediate extinction of the “junk” Python Colt is pandering today.
I will stick with Smith and Wesson, they’re better guns.
If it uses the same internal mechanism. I don’t want one. I have two COLT Pythons and one went out of time and I sent it to Cylinder and Slide in Nebraska at the behest of Colt and got back a revolver that is in time, BUT the hammer drops too soon in double action thus causing miss fires. Remedy according to the “gunsmith”? Send it BACK again, pay the outrageous shipping and he’ll fix it right the second time. Yeah, right.
Now If this had been done in 41 Magnum!!!!!!!
41? You’re kidding righ?
That would be a great revolver.
Black tooth!!! Sounds like a dental problem. I’ll stick with the Colt, one of the prettiest .357 ever produced.
Same price? Buy a Colt.
As an owner of several vintage and modern Colts, as well as a couple of spaghetti western repros – I’d put money on Pietta’s being better than a new production Python.
So what you are saying is your repop Spaghetti Western weapons are better than the originals?
Blacktooth is a stupid name. A black tooth is a rotten, dead tooth. No such thing as a “cool” black tooth. Why not Black Adder. Also black. Also a snake.
How about Black Mamba. One of the most deadly snakes on the planet.
Wow! Someone with some brains.
Black Adder? Check Youtube for “Black Adder”