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Archive for April, 2009

Colt’s Long-Barrelled Legends – Wild Bill Hickock’s 1851 Ivory-Handled, Navy Colt Revolvers

James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickock’s favorite sidearms were a pair of elegantly engraved, ivory-handled 1851 Navy Colt cap and ball .36 caliber revolvers. The cylinders of his Colts were engraved with a naval battle scene between Texas and Mexico. He carried them in butt-forward, open-topped holsters that allowed him to draw the Colts underhanded and [...]

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