COMPETITION - OPEN TO ALL

O.K. time for another competition?

The prize is a sling for an M1 Carbine (shown here on my Erma M1 .22 carbine. The gun is NOI included) ………. The sling will be free, but the winner will need to pay for shipping to their country from New Zealand.

The Competition and CLUES:
I am making another presentation box for another Colt modelgun… the competition is to guess
1) EXACTLY which model Colt itwill display AND
2) the identity of the famous person who may have owned the
original Colt, AND
3) the event which inspired this gun.

So I am also modifying the Colt’s grips, replacing the black plastic ones with dark brown Walnut grips. The modelgun or box will most likely have an inscribed plate attached to it.

The wooden box dimensions are: 450 mm x 290 by 70mm deep.
The rules are:
Each person can have up to THREE posted guesses only! (Posted one guess at a time)
The first person to post the correct guess will win.

The competition will run for only 5 days from the date of posting.
This time CERWYN is not allowed to enter –he already knows the answer!!!

I will answer any reasonable question – but I may answer you with a question!
Good luck – Bonne chance !!!

Kiwigunner

It was Wyat Earp, event is OK Corral shooting, wait, you ask about a COLT? ;-)

Yes! Well done Smootik!

I must have made it too easy!
Yes I know the controversy you refer to: at the OK Corral gun fight, did Wyatt Earp use the Buntline Special Colt he had been awarded by the people of Dodge City? (as shown in the Tombstone movie)

or did he use the smaller barreled Schofield Smith & Wesson .45 ?

After surfing the internet I found some repro medallion shields were available on eBay for between US$8 - US$12 - but that shipping outside the USA was an issue for some sellers.

Yes it is made of brass, not silver, but I can get it plated with nickel or silver quite cheaply. It will also need to have the "8th" inscribed where it is missing. Luckily I have an engraving tool! And I shall also have to replace the plastic grips on my Buntline with wooden (Walnut) ones. Then make the presentation box!


Further surfing found me a site where they sold the same thing for US$4, and shipping wasn't a problem - just expensive. So I bought TWO plus a Dodge City Sheriff's badge - so I shall sell that plus one of the shields locally to help offset the total cost!

So SMOOTIK wins the sling! PM me for shipping details.
Well done....I must make my next competition a bit harder!

Kiwigunner





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It was definitely fun!

To be honest I did not think that I would be considered winner, as I did not write explicitely which Colt model it could be, and I also thought that this is a trick question because Earp was more known to use S&W revolvers. It's all in hands of the judge though :-)

I don' t think the question was too easy, it was just that I recently learned a lot about OK Corral shooting, so gave it a try.

Hi!
And what a try!

Well now, Smootik,

Your extremely fast answers PLUS the query about "Colt??" immediately let me know you knew about the controversy: which gun did Wyatt Earp use at the O.K. Corral?

Franklin Mint has been selling metal replicas based on the Schofield for many years - and Denix now makes copies I believe!
Wyatt Earp apparently told one of his biographers that he used his Colt Buntline .... but his biographer (Stuart Lake) has not been credited as being a thorough researcher!

Wyatt had both a Schofield AND a Buntline available to him at the time (at least one of his friends had one given to him) ........ so would he have favoured a faster short barreled Scohfield OR the long barreled Buntline Special?

Wyatt had the reputation of being um-naturally COOL during gunfights - he displayed absolutely no fear- and was methodical and calculating in what he did.....so if he chose a loner barrelled pistol, he was fully capable of using it in a gunfight.

Smootik was obviously aware of the issue over the use of a Colt ....and there is only one Colt that Wyatt may have used if in fact he didn't use a Schofield: a long barreled Buntline Special!

Kiwigunner

PS: I've since learned that Smootik has actually visited Dodge City in the USA and was impressed by the OK Corral re-enactment displayed while he was there......there is nothing like FIRST HAND knowledge now, is there?


FOR AN UPDATE CHECK THIS LINK: https://mp40modelguns.forumotion.net/t3552-commemorative-grips-buntline-special#21583