Pic of partial collection of percussion revolvers..

[Greasemonkey]

Here is my Uberti Dragoon, .36 Colt Navy and .44 Colt, I believe I heard the long barrel was referred to as a " Colt Buntline"

[Junk Yard Dog]

Ned Buntline the author/news man commissioned Colt to special make a small run of these long barrel revolvers that he then gifted to various Western types who he had been writing about. Wyatt Earp had one of them. Back then Colt would work with you on custom orders and make what you wanted within reason. Nice revolvers, the Remington brass frame you have there is a Italian creation, it was never made that way in real history.

[Junk Yard Dog]

The Colt Buntline special was made on the 1873 frame, it was not a C&B.

[Greasemonkey]

What would that long barrel be a replica of, or was it one that a manufacture made and coined a name for? I've never really researched it being a modern commercial weapon, and it was a fluke I ended up with it, as I only gave a hundred bucks for it and it's belt and holster. That one has always shocked me with it's accuracy compared with the other two.

[Junk Yard Dog]

The Italian gunmakers sometimes use their skill to come up with things to sell us that have no basis in historical fact, the brass frame 1851 Colt navy .44 revolvers are a good example of this. Millions of these have been sold, they are cheap, and popular, but Colt never made a .44 Navy, .36 was the Navy caliber while the Army used .44, and in 1851 they used it in a dragoon revolver. The remain popular as fun shooters and are likely a gun Colt should have made, but didn't , the South during the states war did make Colt copy's, but the model I mentioned wasn't one of them. Nobody in the 19th century made a brass frame Remington, that is a total fabrication by ASM, or Pietta, but it's cheaper for them to make, looks cool, and they can sell it cheaper so it remains on the books. Remington did also offer custom services but Ned Buntline did not make use of them.