Author Topic: Wyatt Earp (Read 1368 times)

lostone1413 · « **on:** July 22, 2003, 01:31:03 PM »

I've read so muct that he carried a buntline (?) special gun with I think they said over a 12" barrel then i've read he didn't. Anyone know the truth?? Also read all Holiday carried was a 4" barrel 38 double action is that true to?? What ever happened to the real guns they carried??

Holiday · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2003, 01:58:46 PM »

The "Buntline Special" Wyatt Earp carried was a present from Ned Buntline, a popular writer of the time. Buntline gave pistols to several of the Old West shootists. From what I have read, he did carry the pistol some, but not exclusively. He was said to have carried a 7 1/2 inch barrel Peacemaker as well. Doc Holliday did carry a double action revolver, the Colt Lightening or the Thunder. The Lightening was a small frame chambered in .38 Colt. the Thunder was a medium frame in .41 Colt. In fact, he may have had both. The ever popular Peacemaker was probably present as well, not to mentione a shotgun from time to time.

Capt Hamp Cox · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2003, 11:47:57 AM »

Check my 23 July post to "The Deadly Shotgun" thread to find out what ol' Wyatt really felt comfortable with.

Hamp

Billy Clanton · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2003, 09:03:35 PM »

Howdy
Go here for an interesting read on the so-called "Buntline"

http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1976/76_2_shillingberg.htm

Billy

Two Guns · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2004, 12:55:24 PM »

I have read that Wyatt was very fond of taking a 7 1/2" barreled Colt and cutting it down to an even 5.0 ". I believe this to be true, because I have seen 2 of them, personally, and a third in an old GUNS issue from the early 1980s. Both guns I saw (had the privilige of holding one), were very well documented.

Big John Wyatt · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2004, 01:21:47 PM »

The "Buntline" seems to be a mystery gun, at least according to Colt factory records. Supposedly there were 5 of these so called Buntline Specials, but according to Colt shipping records these never existed. And none of these guns ever made it in to the 20th century. In the gunfight behind the OK Corral a witness was said to have seen a long barreled handgun that Wyatt put in his coat pocket just before the Earps and Holliday got to the vacant lot. Some say it was a Colt, and some say it was a S&W Model 3. We will never know exactly, but it sure is fun to debate it.