Tags: Weapon.
The Colt Buntline Special is a variant of long-barreled Colt Single Action Army revolver that author Stuart N. Lake created while writing his 1931 biography of Wyatt Earp. According to Lake’s biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal published in 1931 dime novelist Ned Buntline had five Buntline Specials commissioned. Lake described them as extra-long 12 inches (300 mm)-long barrel Colt Single Action Army revolvers.