Mat Dillon Gunsmoke Gun

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Mat dillon gunsmoke gun. Matt dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of gunsmoke he serves as the u s. The matt dillon this western rig was worn by the character matt dillon in the classic western program gunsmoke. Gunsmoke s gun for hire marshal matt dillon s colt sells high among the classic movie collectibles at high noon s auction. Marshal of dodge city kansas who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s the character was created by writer john meston who envisioned him as a man whose hair is probably red if he s got any left.

Army s sidearm of choice from 1873 to 1892 the colt 45 single action army revolver found new fans when marshal matt dillon played by james arness wielded one on the cbs. Gunsmoke is an american radio and television western drama series created by director norman macdonnell and writer john meston the stories take place in and around dodge city kansas during the settlement of the american west the central character is lawman marshal matt dillon played by william conrad on radio and james arness on television. Matt dillon rode a number of horses during the twenty years gunsmoke was on the air. They went out of business in the late 1990 s and their inventory of guns was sold in a special auction the gun matt dillon used in gun smoke was among those sold along with guns used by dan.

Another horse pictured below is named marshal. I was watching this episode of gunsmoke with my sister and we saw matt s really fast draw. This is a classic hollywood drop leg made with top full grain veggie tanned leather and both holster and belt. You ll see it toward the en.