Colt Walker

The Colt Walker is the more successful followup to the Colt Paterson 1836, created by Samuel Colt in partnership with Samuel Walker for the Mexican-American War. Designed as a pistol for cavalry, who kept their pistols on their horse, for use against horses, the Colt Walker is physically large and made for a powerful load that is still the most powerful handgun ever issued by the US military (even after the invention of smokeless powder). Only a little over a thousand were produced, but the high power combined with the fragile design led to only 191 being turned in at the end of the war with only 82 in serviceable condition (these numbers may have been inflated by enlisted soldiers' well reported mishandling the strange new technology and misreporting their status to steal the expensive pistols) and another three confirmed purchased by officers. The Colt Walker would be succeeded by the far more successful, and much smaller, Colt Dragoon. In 2021 the Colt Walker would be named the state firearm of Texas. 
The historical importance, relatively low production run, high loss rate, and power mean original Colt Walkers are rare and extremely valuable (one sold for 1.84 million USD in 2018, well over ten times its weight in gold), though reproductions are readily available. The most obvious external difference in these reproductions is the blued cylinder, which was in the white on the originals. A few 19th-century European copies of the Walker were produced, and some of these have appeared in older films. 
==Specifications==
(1847 - 1848)
*Type: Revolver 
*Caliber(s): .44 ball
*Weight: 4.5 lbs (2.1 kg)
*Length: 15.5 in (39.4 cm)
*Barrel length(s): 9 in (22.9 cm)
*Capacity: 6-round cylinder
*Fire Modes: Single Action
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===Film===
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|The Paris Commune (Zori Parizha) || || Communards || Cartridge conversion || 1936
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|True Grit||Kim Darby||Mattie Ross|| Cartridge conversion ||1969
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|The Outlaw Josey Wales||Clint Eastwood||Josey Wales|| Cartridge conversion ||1976
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|Tom Horn||Lee Mendenour||Roy Jenson|| ||1980
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|Three Amigos||Martin Short||Ned Nederlander|| ||1986
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|Quigley Down Under|| || || ||1990
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| El Diablo|| Anthony Edwards || Billy Ray Smith || Cartridge conversion ||1990
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|Last Man Standing||William Sanderson||Joe Monday||||1996
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|rowspan=4|Ravenous||Guy Pearce||Captain Boyd|| rowspan=4| ||rowspan=4|1999
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|Neal McDonough||Private Reich
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|Robert Carlyle||FW Colhoun
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|Jeffrey Jones||Colonel Hart
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| Lone Rider || Lou Diamond Phillips || Bobby Hattaway || || 2008
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|The Hateful Eight || Michael Madsen||Joe ||Ivory grips|| 2015
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|rowspan=2|Jane Got a Gun||Noah Emmerich||Bill Hammond||rowspan=2|Cartridge conversion||rowspan=2|2016
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|Natalie Portman||Jane Hammond
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|The Legend of Tarzan|| Samuel L. Jackson || George Washington Williams || ||2016
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| The Kid || Chris Pratt || Grant Cutler || Cartridge conversion || 2019
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| rowspan=2|True History of the Kelly Gang || Nicholas Hoult || Constable Fitzpatrick || rowspan=2|Heritage commemorative || rowspan=2|2019
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| George MacKay || Ned Kelly
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|Fatman || Mel Gibson||Chris "Santa Claus" Kringle || || 2020
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===Television===
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| North and South || Philip Casnoff || Capt. Elkanah Bent || Cartridge || 1985
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|Lonesome Dove||Robert Duvall||Gus|| ||1989
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|Return To Lonesome Dove||||Several characters||||1993
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| rowspan=2|1864 || Johannes Lassen || Wilhelm Dinesen || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2014
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| || Prussian Death's Head Hussars
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|Fear the Walking Dead - Season 5||Garret Dillahunt||John Dorie ||"Humbug's Gulch" (S5E03)||2019
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===Anime===
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|Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail|| || ||2010-11
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===Video Game===
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|Call of Juarez||"Ranger"|| || ||2007
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|Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood||"Ranger"|| || ||2009
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|Dead Rising 2|| || ||not useable||2010
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|Fistful of Frags||"Colt Walker"|| || ||2014
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| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly || "Colt Walker 1847" || || || 2014
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| Enlisted || "Colt Walker" || || || 2021
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=See Also=
* Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt. 
Category:Gun
Category:Revolver