Brownells Gun Techs and resident firearm historians Steve and Keith have donned their best Saturday night goin'-into-town duds and returned to Rock Island Auction Company to show us a very rare, beautifully preserved, lavishly engraved Colt Single Action Army revolver (aka, Peacemaker, Model 1873, Model P, SAA). It was originally owned by Bob Dalton of the Dalton Gang, a group of outlaws active all over the West ca. 1890 to '92. Only 10 of these guns were made, two going to Bob Dalton and two each to his brothers Emmett and Grat, the rest to other members of the gang. They carried these revolvers during the Coffeyville Raid, an attempt to rob TWO banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892. The robbery was foiled by a number of armed citizens, and a bloody shootout resulted in the deaths of four gang members, including Bob Dalton, and four citizens. (Emmett suffered some 20 to 25 gunshot wounds but miraculously survived.) Bob's Colt ended up as a souvenir on display in a Coffeyville department store for many years. One of the other nine Peacemakers has passed through Rock Island Auctions, but the fate of the remaining eight guns is not known. Bob's Colt is a "black powder frame" gun. Keith explains what that means and how you can tell a black powder frame from a smokeless powder frame on a Single Action Army.
14 окт 2024
