Colt 1851 Navy

The Colt 1851 Navy has been seen in the following films:

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Colt 1851 Navy .36 caliber.

Colt 1851 Navy Percussion

Film

• Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

• Marston's men in Quigley Down Under

• Insp. Butterman in Hot Fuzz (engraved with ivory grips)

• Kevin Costner as Lt. John Dunbar in Dances with Wolves

Colt 1851 Navy (Richards-Mason Conversion)

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Colt 1851 Navy with a Richards-Mason cartridge conversion. This is a reproduction of the gun used by Clint Eastwood in TGTBaTU.

When cartridge became popular in the 1870s, percussion revolvers became dated. To fix this, a cartridge conversion method was created by Charles B. Richards and William Mason, employees of Colt at the time. The conversion proved popular and allowed gunslingers to keep their favorite guns, but now easier to reload. In films, these guns are commonly place in anachronistic time periods such as the civil war, due to the safer method of firing cartridge blanks instead of cap and ball blank shot.

Film

• Clint Eastwood as Blondie in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (with silver snake grips)

• Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (with lanyard loop)

• Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly