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Why In Bob Boze Bell’s Painting, Is Wild Bill Hickok’s Navy Colt Pointed To The Sky?

by | Jan 10, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

In the November 2016 issue of True West, Bob Boze Bell’s picture shows “Wild Bill” Hickok with his Navy Colt pointed to the sky. Why? Allen Fossenkemper Fountain Hills, Arizona Jim Dunham, a gun expert and the director of Special Projects at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, explains: “I have fired my Colt 2nd Generation 1851 Navies quite a bit, and I can tell you that, if you just cock the hammer following recoil, broken pieces of the cap will often fall into th


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