Colt Python


 * "My advice to you is: aim for the head!" - Father Grigori

The .357 Magnum revolver is a powerful handgun. It is more accurate and powerful than the Pistol. In Half-Life, the player finds his first .357 Magnum Revolver near a dead security guard in the Blast Pit chapter, beneath the tentacles. In Blue Shift, he finds the weapon next to a security guard pulled out of his car and killed in chapter Captive Freight. In Half-Life 2, the first .357 Magnum the player acquires is on a desk in a Civil Protection outpost on the Canals in the chapter Water Hazard. The weapon resembles a Colt Python in both games. The Half-Life deathmatch model has a strange attachment under the barrel that resembles a laser but acts as a scope. This is not present in singleplayer because it made it too powerful.

Usage
The .357 only has a single firing mode, firing a powerful .357 Magnum round. This is a powerful and accurate weapon, but it has a long reload time and low rate of fire, so be sure to aim carefully and make every shot count, as it only holds six rounds at a time. There is also a trick that can be used with this weapon. While it has no built in scope, but you can use the HEV suit zoom to aim long distance shots, then quickly releasing the zoom to fire.

In the multiplayer version of Half-Life, the secondary fire on this weapon will activate a scope and laser.

Ammunition for this weapon is very rare, so the player should use this weapon only when its pinpoint accuracy and stopping power is required.

Using this gun in multiplayer will result in many easy kills at any range as long as you aim for the head.