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Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: themayor on May 25, 2013, 04:54:06 AM

Title: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: themayor on May 25, 2013, 04:54:06 AM

Does anyone know of the model # of the Colt 45 army handgun used by Matt Dillon on gunsmoke?

Title: Re: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: crusader rabbit on May 25, 2013, 07:35:44 AM

The good Marshall (not sheriff) carried a Colt Single Action Army with a 7 1/2 inch barrel.

Crusader Rabbit

Title: Re: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: Dakotaranger on May 25, 2013, 07:43:56 AM

Probably .44-40

Title: Re: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: Timothy on May 25, 2013, 09:20:04 AM

The Rabbit is right in .45 Colt.

My understanding is it was an actual 1895 Colt SAA and not a movie prop!

Title: Re: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: pioneer on May 30, 2013, 02:00:26 PM

A good source for those kinds of questions is the Internet Movie Firearms Data Base; http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

and the companion Internet Movie Data Base; http://www.imdb.com/

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Title: Re: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: bodean87 on June 20, 2013, 06:40:40 PM

I'm almost positive I just saw that gun a week ago. Its in the wild bill museum in Cody, Wy.

Title: Re: Sheriff Matt Dillon of gunsmoke
Post by: PegLeg45 on June 21, 2013, 12:38:50 PM

As a side note about Arness, I was just reading about him and saw that actor Peter Graves was his brother....

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