Colt saa disassembly
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Another says they were imported from Italy. One says Great Western’s guns were imported from Germany. No wonder, because even reference books can’t get it straight. Today, most people don’t know Great Western, the first Colt SAA clone, existed. What you saw Howard throwing to the barroom floor in that final scene wasn’t a Great Western but a carefully modified Ruger Blackhawk - a gun that helped put Great Western out of business. But Wayne, who used his own embellished Great Western revolvers throughout the film, wasn’t about to let Howard or anyone else fling his beloved guns around. Wayne then grinned approvingly and breathed his last. As Doc O’Meara relates in Guns of the Gunfighters, the script of The Shootist called for Ron Howard, who had just killed Wayne’s assassin with Wayne’s revolver, to fling down the gun in disgust. But ill as he was, Wayne took care of his guns. Decline of the SAA Anybody who’s seen The Shootist, John Wayne’s final movie, is bound to be struck by the parallel between the on-screen plot involving a dying old gunfighter and the real-life spectacle of a terminally ill Wayne giving his last on-camera performance. If you wanted an authentic, brand-new single-action. At that time, Colt’s SAA was out of production, Ruger’s Vaquero wasn’t even a twinkle in Bill Ruger’s eye, and the Italian houses of Uberti and Pietta hadn’t been founded. of Los Angeles, Calif., were the beau ideal of the American handgun scene. Odd as it might seem today, for a brief time in the mid-1950s, revolvers made by the Great Western Arms Co. But in his final movie, Big John used a Great Western Frontier Model in. Here’s a poser: In John Wayne’s last movie, The Shootist, 1976, what make and model of six-gun did he use?Īre you kidding? Everybody knows The Duke used a first-generation Colt Single-Action Army. Special Offer: 10 Timeless Gun Collecting Articles from Gun DigestĪrticles in this Compilation: Cabanas P-21, Remington Model 673, VZ-52 Czech, Lee-Enfield Jungle Carbine, French Service Revolvers, S&W Model 1940, Model 66 Super Single, And More!