Weapon test New 12-inch Single Action Revolvers – 1 of 2
Wyatt Earp would have liked this weapon. F.lli Pietta’s Buntline is the first reproduction of the 12-inch model. The Italian gunsmith has done an exemplary job making a revolver with a standard factory tuned action. This was a very rare weapon in the 1870s, and it would have been difficult to come across a cowboy […]
Weapon test New 12-inch Single Action Revolvers – 2 of 2
Gun skin Whether Earp said it or Lake made it up, Wyatt allegedly carried the Buntline on his right hip (as demonstrated by the author in accompanying photos), although Lake never described Earp’s holster or his gun belt. Since, in this, reality and fiction coincide, we chose Alan and Donna Soellner of Chisholm’s Trail to […]
Commemorating the 140th anniversary of the Colt Peacemaker. Part 1 of 2
F.LLI Pietta celebrates the 140th anniversary of the Colt Single Action with a Buntline model, with black powdered and hand-engraved castle, shown here for the very first time. The limited edition weapons will be available from 2012 exclusively through Dixie Gun Works. The engravings are based on the work of Cuno Helfricht and the 18 […]
Commemorating the 140th anniversary of the Colt Peacemaker. Part 2 of 2
Shown is one of the original 1876 Colt Centennials engraved by Cuno Helfricht. This may have been the only specimen without ivory handles. Note the similarity to patterns engraved and duplicated by Pietta’s master engravers in Italy for the Buntline Centennial. The Colt models delivered to the U.S. Cavalry belonged to the first production run. […]
American Cavalry Indian scouts armed with the latest Colt Single Action revolvers.
Combat weapons We tend to think of American Indians as the enemy of white settlers in the early years of our nation, but in truth it was in most cases a situation of coexistence and mutual cooperation rather than conflict. And this was not limited to the passage of the white man into land controlled […]
Arms of the combatants who supplied the army of 1860
Although it was intended as a new sidearm for the Cavalry in 1860: The new Colt .44 caliber revolver turned out to be a rather unobtrusive carbine Shoulder-mounted revolvers have been used by the U.S. Cavalry since the 1850s when Colt’s 44-caliber Dragoon third model was made available with a detachable carbine mount. Shown with […]
Modern Masterpieces: The History of Engraving by Italians and More – 1 of 4
One would think Italy would be the last place to go for authentic 19th-century Colt engravings, but only because most Americans have never heard of the Dassa Brothers! Sergio and Mauro Dassa grew up watching Westerns, simply as two classic brothers who appreciated movies, horses, gunplay, and the grandeur of the American West, the only […]
Modern Masterpieces: The History of Engraving by Italians and More – 2 of 4
Italian engravings and a visit to the Dassa workshop In the Val Trompia, a region in northern Italy, beautifully situated in the foothills of the Alps, the two most important words concerning hard craftsmanship in these areas over the past 500 years have been “guns” and “engraving.” Over the centuries, the people of the Trompia […]
Modern Masterpieces: The History of Engraving by Italians and More – 3 of 4
SA of Pietta made by Dassa From the time Pietta began making single-action revolvers based on the historical Colt models produced from the 1870s through the last century, demand from collectors and enthusiasts has been for authentic but reasonably priced reproductions that are suitable for both shooting and display, the latter being the reason Pietta […]
Modern Masterpieces: The History of Engraving by Italians and More – 4 of 4
The Starr Single Action was the Union’s third most used sidearm. Pietta’s SA model is the only reproduction of a historic break action revolver. The luxury model engraved by Dassa, copied from an original post-Secession War period weapon, is a beautiful model inlaid with silver and gold. The Secession War Sesquicentennial Starr Single Action is […]