My Griswold and Gunnison Revolver

[RB POWELL]

This is the full-length version of my Griswold and Gunnison revolver story. The G&G revolver was one of the guns that came out of the Confederate States attempts to jump-start a homegrown arms program during the Civil War. The Griswold was essentially a copy of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver, though it had some important differences like a brass frame and a Dragoon-style barrel configuration.

For this video I created my own version of the Griswold. I started with a .44 caliber, brass-framed Colt 1851 Navy replica, and changed barrel assemblies. Then I made it so it could be easily converted to look like the pseudo-Griswold that Cullen Bohannon's character carried during the first season of the television series, "Hell on Wheels".

Sure is pretty. I'd like to have one.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Love those Grissys!!

 

[sourdough]

Sure is pretty. I'd like to have one.

Here you go: if you are looking for a .44 version, take a look at this one. It is a straight purchase rather than an auction item. It is advertised as a Traditions; it is a Pietta (look at the barrel marking in the first photo) datecode CM/2014, that being the last year of the "Large Tail" gripframe manufacture. To me, it looks like a NIB revolver: screw slots/cylinder stop slots/no cylinder turn ring. The walnut wood is very nice, as opposed to the straight-grained quarter-sawn wood usually found for that date. Zero damage that I can see. The cylinder is engraved (G&G's had plain cylinders). $261 plus shipping is very reasonable, especially considering that there appears to be very little Italian production of revolvers these days due to the pandemic.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/880079390
As a comparison insofar as the gripframe assembly shape, this is my Pietta 1851 Navy CM/2014 Second Model .36 Belt Dragoon (fantasy parts gun) with the part round/part octagon barrel and smooth/plain cylinder and a squareback trigger guard. The wood is European hardwood, not walnut.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Jim