Be dazzled by the Dassa brothers
Whenever I have visited the Val Trompia area in northern Italy, there are two questions I have always avoided: “How much does this cost,” and “How long did it take to do this?” The answer generally is, “This is not something we can talk about.” This knowledge came in handy when I needed to talk […]
Shooting with Sheriff EMF’s New Great Western II Six Shooter model.
Not all lawmen wanted to walk the streets of their city looking like a living invitation to a firefight as they were adorned with a pair of Colts around their waists. Some preferred a certain level of subtlety and an implicit respect for office and laws. Usually, that was put into practice by carrying–in a […]
Bat Masterson’s Colt Single Action: Pietta reproduces one of the West’s most famous weapons – 1 of 3
“Courage to step forward and fight with a gun to the death is one of the three qualities a man must have to last long in this dangerous business. A man can have as much courage as he can get and still be a pathetic failure as a ‘gunfighter,’ as men in the West who […]
Bat Masterson’s Colt Single Action: Pietta reproduces one of the West’s most famous weapons – 2 of 3
One of eight During his career as a law enforcement representative and gambler, Bat ordered a total of eight single-action revolvers from Colt. The most impressive was an order made by Dodge City and written to the Opera House Saloon in July 1885 whose incipit was Gentlemen, Please send me one of your nickel-plated .45 […]
Bat Masterson’s Colt Single Action: Pietta reproduces one of the West’s most famous weapons – 3 of 3
By 1880 Wyatt Ear resigned his position as Assistant City Marshal of Dodge City and left for Tombstone with his brothers Virgil and Morgan. At the same time Bat’s run as County Sheriff would also come to a short end with his defeat in the next election. Over the next few years Masterson was continuously […]
Deputy U.S. Field Marshal Heck Thomas:Cleaning up the wilderness with a Colt and a Wichester 1/2
In the Old West there were good men and bad men, and then there were lawmen. Unfortunately, most lawmen were a bit of both, and few of those who wore a badge could claim to have walked the straight and narrow for the entire course of their lives, most having become lawmen after failing in […]
Deputy U.S. Field Marshal Heck Thomas:Cleaning up the wilderness with a Colt and a Wichester 2/2
As Operating Agents of the U.S. Marshals they were instrumental in bringing law and order to Indian and Oklahoma territories by operating out of Fort Smith (Arkansas) and with headquarters in the courthouse of the legendary Judge Isaac Parker, known as “The Hanging Judge.” Thomas truly regarded the work as his calling. Eventually, this devotion […]
With the Pietta Brothers technique, we will not look at laser engravings on weapon in the same way! 1 of 3
“Gun engraving and gun decoration owe so much to that world-renowned and almost legendary pioneer in firearms making and mass production, such as Samuel Colt. No one has had a more profound impact on gun engraving in 19th-century America.” R.L. Wilson, author and weapons historian In America, the art of gun engraving reached its peak […]
With the Pietta Brothers technique, we will not look at laser engravings on weapon in the same way! 2 of 3
Pietta Brothers’ plan Several years ago the Italian gunmakers, F.lli Pietta, who were successful in making out-of-the-box best-of-breed reproductions of Colt Single Action Army models in both the early black-powder castle style and the later roughly 1892 version with a drum-locking pin (or infume-powder castle), began working on a new laser engraving technique. We refer […]
With the Pietta Brothers technique, we will not look at laser engravings on weapon in the same way! 3 of 3
The new Pietta factory and the S.E.I. laser system. It all began in 1963 when two brothers with a love of guns founded Fratelli Pietta in a small 82-square-meter workshop on Briggia Street. In 1987 an order for 10,000 Colt 1851 Navy-style revolvers for a French dealer changed the course of their business and the […]