What gun did Doc Holliday use?

What gun did Doc Holliday use?

1877 Colt Lightning/Thunderer double
Kilmer’s Doc carries an ivory-gripped, nickelplated Model 1877 Colt Lightning/Thunderer double-action revolver in a shoulder holster as his first weapon of choice. He also carries an ivory-gripped Colt Single Action Army model in a hip holster. But in real life what weapons did John Henry “Doc” Holliday actually carry?

What is the most valuable revolver?

Pat Garrett’s Colt revolver, used to kill Billy the Kid, sold for more than $6 million. That price snappily doubled Bonhams’s high-end estimate of $3 million for the Garrett piece, and it made the vernacular, factory-made, late nineteenth-century six-shooter the most expensive firearm ever sold at auction in the world.

What caliber were cowboy revolvers?

The Colt Frontier Six Shooter Revolver and the Winchester Model 1873 or the Winchester Model 1892 in . 44-40 WCF caliber were one of the most common combinations seen in “the Old West”.

What is the rarest gun ever made?

Below we’ve compiled five rare guns sold at auction and the stories that make them irreplaceable.

• George Washington’s saddle pistols. Price: $2 million.
• General Simon Bolivar’s flintlock pistols.
• Captain Henry Ware Lawton’s Winchester rifle.
• Sam Wilson’s Colt Walker.
• Teddy Roosevelt’s double-barreled shotgun.

What is a civil war gun worth?

Purchase Price in 2019 Spencer rifles and carbines are highly desirable Civil War guns to military memorabilia collectors. In our 2019 May Premier Auction, we sold an excellent conditioned, beautifully casehardened and original blue preserved Spencer Model 1860 rifle for an astounding $48,875.

What is a good cowboy revolver?

Western stand-off – TOP 5 single action revolvers

• #1 – Colt 1873 Single Action Army. This is undeniably the most iconic revolver ever producer, by Samuel Colt himself.
• #2 – Ruger Vaquero.
• #3 – Uberti cattleman.
• #4 – Taylor’s 1875 Army Outlaw.
• #5 – Smith & Wesson Model 3 – Schofield.

What is the classic western revolver?

Colt Single Action Army Revolver Probably the most famous of the Old West guns, the Colt six-shooter became renowned as the ‘gun that won the West’. Popular with the military, agents of the law, and with criminals, it was said by a former train robber that ‘a Colt’s forty-five makes all men equal’.

Who has Wild Bill Hickok’s guns?

The Center is fortunate to have one of Hickok’s Colt Navy revolvers in its Buffalo Bill Museum collection. It had been sold to help pay for his burial expenses. It was later purchased for a mere twenty-five cents!