Colt 1851 navy cartridge conversion

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38 Special as part of the company’s Lawmen and Outlaws series of guns. Uberti is honoring the legend of “Wild Bill” Hickok with an 1851 Navy conversion in.

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His main guns of choice were a pair of Colt 1851 Navy blackpowder revolvers with ivory grips. But he was best known, accurately or not, as one of the greatest gunfighters of the American West. He hailed from Illinois, and during his life, he was a gambler, a lawman, a scout, a spy, a showman and more.