Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) carries two Colt Walker 1847 revolvers in twin holsters as his primary sidearms, although he carries four pistols in total. While not supposed to be known by the audience, the guns are converted to fire metallic cartridges instead of firing percussion cap and ball, since this it is safer to use blanks than firing blackpowder blank shot. While some of the guns are anachronistically seen with conventional metallic conversion kits with ejector rods and loading gates, these guns lack these features to try to hide its conversion. In some scenes though, the guns are non-firing models which do have percussion nipples so the audience can be tricked into thinking the guns are a percussion only. The famous image in which Wales poses with his Colt Walkers is a good example.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingOne of the original Colt Walker 1847s used by Clint Eastwood in the film. Since deactivated by the propstore of London.Error creating thumbnail: File missingOne of the original Colt Walker 1847s in one of the original holsters.Josey Wales famously poses with his Colt Walker 1847s.Error creating thumbnail: File missingJosey Wales presents his two Colt Walker 1847s butts forward when two bounty chasers hold him up in the trading shop.Error creating thumbnail: File missingUnfortunately for them, Wales knows his gun tricks and reverses the guns with lightning speed (too fast to grab a clear picture, infact). This trick is actually quite simple to accomplish if you know how to do it.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWales draws his Colt Walker in his left hand and a Colt 1860 Army in his right to kill the Union soldiers in the town.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWales aims his Colt Walker at a group of thugs as they attempt to rape Laura Lee (Sondra Locke), only holding his fire when their leader forces them to stop their attack.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWales fires his Colt Walker at the Red Legs during the shootout outside the house. Here, the trigger is obviously too light since the hammer only falls to half-cock.Error creating thumbnail: File missingClose up of one of the Colt Walkers firing. Note how the cylinder has no percussion nipples, and the gap behind the cylinder is obviously there so cartridges can fit.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWales slowly approaches Terrill (Bill McKinney) while clicking each chamber empty to scare him.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWales dry-firing his empty Colt Walkers.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWales flashes back to when Terrill and his Red Legs murdered his family, fueling his rage even more.
Colt 1860 with Richardson-Mason conversion
This revolver is either a Colt 1860 Army converted to accommodate metallic cartridges, or a Colt model 1871-72 Open Top Model (note the extractor, and the loading gate)
I belive that this is a Richards conversion, not Richards- Mason. You can see the rear sight on the breech ring, the R-M used the original hammer sight. Also, the hammer has been modified to strike the frame mounted firing pin used in the Richards
Used by Union troops to mow down Wale's comrades after they surrender. Wales kills one of the gun's team then uses it to mow down Union troops and destroy the other gun.
