Colt 1851 Navy

The Colt 1851 Navy has been seen in the following films:

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Colt 1851 Navy - .36 caliber.

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Colt 1851 Navy London Model - .36 caliber. The "London" model uses iron instead of brass components for the back strap and trigger guard.

Colt 1851 Navy Percussion

Specifications

(1851 - 1873)

• Type: Revolver

• Caliber(s): .36 Caliber

• Weight: 2.6 lbs (1.2 kg)

• Length: 14 in (35.6 cm)

• Barrel length(s): 7.5 in (19.1 cm)

• Capacity: 6-round cylinder

• Fire Modes: Single-Action

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
The Big Trail	John Wayne	Breck		1930
How the West Was Won	Gregory Peck	Cleve Van Valen		1962
How the West Was Won	Russ Tamblyn	"The Reb"		1962
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly	Eli Wallach	Tuco	with lanyard loop, used in non-firing scenes	1966
Trail of the Falcon	Gojko Mitic	Farsighted Falcon		1968
Trail of the Falcon		Various characters		1968
Little Big Man	Dustin Hoffman	Jack Crabb		1970
Dawn of the Dead (1978)	Ken Foree	Peter	Possibly Uberti replicas	1978
Glory	Matthew Broderick	Col. Shaw		1989
Glory	Cary Elwes	Major Forbes		1989
Glory	Cliff De Young	Col. Montgomery		1989
Gettysburg	C. Thomas Howell	Thomas Chamberlain		1993
Gettysburg	Various actors	Union Officers		1993
Gettysburg	Various actors	Confederate Officers		1993
Gangs of New York	David Hemmings	Mr. Schermerhorns	fires akimbo	2002
Ned Kelly	Heath Ledger	Ned Kelly		2003
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Paul Schneider	Dick Liddil	.	2007
Hot Fuzz	Jim Broadbent	Inspector Frank Butterman	Engraved gold cylinders with ivory grips	2007
Watching the Detectives	Cillian Murphy	Neil		2007
Lucky Luke	Daniel Prévost	Pat Poker		2009
Lucky Luke	Melvil Poupaud	Jesse James	12" barrel	2009
Lucky Luke	André Oumansky	The President	12" barrel	2009
Lucky Luke		thugs		2009
Jonah Hex	Josh Brolin	Jonah Hex		2010
True Grit	Jeff Bridges	Marshall Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn	Fires akimbo	2010
Casa de mi Padre			beer commercial	2012

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Reilly: Ace of Spies	John Rhys-Davies	Tanyatos		1984

Anime

Film/Television Title	Character	Notation	Date
Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World	Kino	"Navy London" variant	2003

Colt 1851 (Cartridge Conversion)

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Colt 1851 Navy with a cartridge conversion. This is a reproduction of the gun used by Clint Eastwood in TGTBaTU produced by Cimmaron Arms.

Only trait is a loading gate so this weapon can fire metallic cartridges. In films, these guns are commonly place in anachronistic time periods such as the civil war, due to the safer method of firing cartridge blanks instead of cap and ball blank shot.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly	Clint Eastwood	Blondie	with silver snake grips	1966
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly	Eli Wallach	Tuco	with lanyard loop	1966
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly	Lee Van Cleef	Angel Eyes	with lanyard loop	1966
Dances With Wolves	Kevin Costner	Lt. John J. Dunbar	.	1990
Dances With Wolves	Maury Chaykin	Major Farmbrough	.	1990
Dances With Wolves	Various actors	Union officers	.	1990

Colt 1851 Navy (Richards-Mason Conversion)

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Colt 1851 Navy with Richards-Mason cartridge conversion - .38 Long Colt.

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The Colt 1851 Navy with a Richards-Mason cartridge conversion made to look like a POS used by Russell Crowe in the film The Quick and the Dead (1995).

When cartridge became popular in the 1870s, percussion revolvers became dated. To fix this, a cartridge conversion method was created by Charles B. Richards and William Mason, employees of Colt at the time. The conversion proved popular and allowed gunslingers to keep their favorite guns, but now easier and faster to reload.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Wyatt Earp	Kevin Costner	Wyatt Earp	.	1994
Wyatt Earp	Martin Kove	Ed Ross	.	1994
Wild Bill	Jeff Bridges	James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok	.	1995
The Quick and the Dead	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Kid	.	1995
The Quick and the Dead	Raynor Scheine	Ratsy	.	1995
American Beauty			Seen in Franks gun case, Nickel-plated and fitted with Ivory grips	1999
3:10 to Yuma (2007)	Christian Bale	Dan Evans	.	2007
3:10 to Yuma (2007)	Logan Lerman	William Evans	.	2007

Colt 1851 "U.S. Marshal"

Colt 1851 "U.S. Marshal".

A pocket model of the 1851 with cylinder grooves. Cerimonial modern models have nickel engraved finishes and sometimes ivory grips.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Quigley Down Under	Tony Bonner	Dobkin	fitted with Ivory grips	1990
Lucky Luke		thugs		2009

See Also

• Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.