Colt Buntline

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Colt Buntline Special is based on the famed Colt Peacemaker revolver manufactured by the Colt's Manufacturing Company, and was commissioned by the Dime Novelist Ned Buntline.

The weapon was a single-action revolver chambered for .45 Long Colt ammunition. However, unlike the Peacemaker it has a 16" long barrel (in comparison to the Peacemaker's 7.5"; 12" was available as well, and was popularised by The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp TV series), and a removable stock that could be easily affixed through a combination of screws and lead-ins. These modifications gave the weapon better precision and range. It also allowed the user to affix the stock and turn the revolver into an even more precise weapon and give it most of the advantages of a rifle.

Ned Buntline commissioned this weapon in 1876. He based its conception on the idea of making a revolver that would be more precise and could be easily modified to work similarly to a rifle. Weapons were produced so that he could give them to the prominent personalities of the Wild West. Wyatt Earp was rumored to have received a Buntline Special, but no actual evidence of him owning one exists.

The revolver was never mass-produced, but could have been specially ordered from the Colt factory in New Jersey.