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Originally Posted by targa911S
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.
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Interesting, thanks for the info. I was guessing that the different rear sight was needed because the cartridge version shot to a different point of aim. The only original cap and ball Colts that I am aware of that had a rear sight like this were some of the earlier Dragoon models. In fact, some of them had more than one fold down leaf for different ranges! I agree, your Navy would look great with ivory grips! Especially if they had the carved eagle on the left panel.