Guns International #: 103218728
Seller's Inventory #: 4491676

Category - Colt Revolvers - Single Action Army - 2nd Gen - .44 Special Revolvers

Category
Colt Revolvers - Single Action Army - 2nd Gen
.44 Special Revolvers

Colt ~ Buntline ~ .44 Special ~ .44 Special

Description:
The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely fictionalized 1931 biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. According to Lake, the dime novelist Ned Buntline commissioned the production of five Buntline Specials. Lake described them as extra-long Colt Single Action Army revolvers, with a 12-inch long barrel, and stated that Buntline presented them to five lawmen in thanks for their help in contributing local color to his western yarns. Lake attributed the gun to Wyatt Earp, but modern researchers have not found any supporting evidence from secondary sources or in available primary documentation of the gun's existence prior to the publication of Lake's book. After its publication, various Colt revolvers with long (10-inch or 16-inch) barrels were called Colt Buntlines or Buntline Specials. Colt manufactured the pistol among its second-generation revolvers produced after 1956. .44 S&W Special

Curio/Relic: Yes
Barrels: 12
Weight: 3 lb
Item Location: christiana

Price: $2,499.99