If History's Most Famous Gunmen Could Only Own ONE Gun — What Would Each of Them Choose?

There is a photograph that sold for two point three million dollars. A small tin plate showing a young man with a Winchester rifle and a pistol on his hip. For most of a century, everyone agreed Billy the Kid wore his gun on the left — Hollywood even built a movie around it. There was one problem. Every Winchester Model 1873 loads on the right side. The photograph is reversed. Billy the Kid was right-handed all along, and the proof was sitting in his own hands the whole time. That is the question this video is actually about. The gun a legend is famous for is usually not the gun he would have kept. So what would each of them have chosen, if they could only keep one — and what does that choice reveal about who they actually were? In this video: Wild Bill Hickok, who kept carrying cap-and-ball Colt Navy revolvers for years after the cartridge Peacemaker made them obsolete, and why Doc Holliday's shotgun at the O.K. Corral, which was not his gun at all, and the nickel-plated Colt he actually loved The Buntline Special, the foot-long Colt tied to Wyatt Earp that almost certainly never existed — and how a myth became a product, then became history Bat Masterson's own factory order letters, specifying exactly what he wanted built Annie Oakley and why the greatest accuracy of the era came out of the smallest, simplest guns in the show Simo Häyhä, the deadliest sniper who ever lived, and why he refused a telescopic sight in the Winter War Elmer Keith, the six-hundred-yard revolver shot that got him called a liar for thirty years, and what actually happened Jack O'Connor versus Elmer Keith, the decades-long argument over big and slow against light and fast that never really got settled Jeff Cooper, the 1911 loyalist who helped invent the round meant to replace it — and why the 1911 outlived the experiment anyway Jerry Miculek, the fastest hands alive today, and the three-word answer he gave when asked which single gun he would keep for life What did you grow up with? If you could keep only one gun for the rest of your life, what would it be? Tell me in the comments. #GunHistory #WildBillHickok #DocHolliday #WyattEarp #BillyTheKid #AnnieOakley #ElmerKeith #JeffCooper #JerryMiculek #FirearmsHistory