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Originally Posted by fred cook
David,
I noticed that your Colt has the dovetailed rear sight rather than the notch in the hammer. Did it come that way or did you make the change? Nice piece, by the way!
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The gun was made by Uberti at the request of Sergio Leoni the director of all the spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood. Sergio was a stickler for originality but did not want black powder on the set. He contracted Uberti to make an exact replica 1851 Colt Navy but able to shoot blank cartridges. Notice it still has the under lever for tamping the balls into the cylinder. The front rod drops down just like the original but the rod detaches so you can use it to eject the casings. It has a side cartridge loading gate as well. Pretty cool stuff. Uberti then marketed the gun and still has it in their line up as "the man with no name" gun, as Eastwood never had a name in any of those movies. His had a coiled rattlesnake inlayed ing silver. This gun as you can see does not have those. I will ad a nice set of ivories some day. The rear dove tail sight was added to the factory sale guns but not the original ones used in the movies. Thanks for the comps.