The Hunt for Old Guns - Ep 4: The Colt Dragoon

In “The Hunt for Old Guns,” we look at 19th-century American firearms – the rare, the unusual, and the iconic. Old gun hunters love stories of the hunt, and in this episode, we take a look at a Confederate officer’s Colt Dragoon that turned up hiding in the author’s collection.

There are few things cooler to a lot of old gun hunters than the Civil War revolver of a Confederate officer. A few years ago, I had the great good fortune to find a “sleeper” in my own collection that turned out to be exactly that.