Colt Single Action Army

Colt Single Action Army
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series
First Appearance	"Starved For Help"
Last Appearance	"No Going Back"
Fear the Walking Dead
First Appearance	"The New Frontier"
Last Appearance	"The Road Ahead"
Users	Fear the Walking Dead: Jeremiah Otto Russell Brown Nicholas Clark Broke Jaw Ranch militiaman John Dorie I John Dorie II John Dorie Sr. John Dorie Dakota June Dorie Hill Odessa Sanderson Telltale Series: Andrew St. John Brenda St. John Charles Omid Vernon Lee Everett Clementine Wyatt Eddie Troy Bonnie Hank Arvo Jane

“

Now that's an antique. Only one other one like it. ―John Dorie to Leland

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The Colt Single Action Army — also known as the Model P, Peacemaker, M1873 and SAA — is a single action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges.

The Single Action Army has been offered in over 30 different calibers and various barrel lengths. The revolver was popular with ranchers, lawmen, and outlaws alike, but current models are mostly bought by collectors and reenactors. Its design has influenced the production of numerous other models from other companies.

Two customized nickel-plated Colt Single Action Army revolvers act as the primary weapon of John Dorie having been passed down in his family for generations. Following his death, one of his guns becomes the primary weapon of his wife while the second one is later taken by his father until John Dorie Sr.'s death. Seven years later, after retrieving the guns from storage, June gives one to Odessa Sanderson.

Pre-Apocalypse

At some point, Jeremiah Otto came into possession of a nickel-plated Colt Single Action Army with ivory grips that he gave to Russell Brown when Russell and his wife Martha moved into the old adobe on Broke Jaw Ranch. The couple hung the gun above the doorway.

John Dorie owned two customized nickel-plated Colt Single Action Army revolvers that had been in his family for generations. John Dorie I brought them West with him while John Dorie II used them to kill Deadeye Driscoll, getting his face into the newspaper for doing so.

After going away from the world, his father dropped the guns off at his son's cabin for him. However, after killing a robber during a convivence store hold up, John retreated from the world and put his guns away, vowing to never use them again.

Post-Apocalypse

Fear the Walking Dead

Russell Brown owns a nickel-plated Colt Single Action Army with ivory grips that was given to him by Jeremiah Otto. After his wife dies in her sleep and reanimates, Russell uses it to shoot both himself and Martha in the head at the same time.

Following Russell's death, the damaged gun is found by Jeremiah Otto while Nick Clark is working on rebuilding Russell's house. Jeremiah quips that the Colt Single Action Army is "how the West was won" and calls it a beautiful gun which Nick thinks is a contradiction. Jeremiah tells Nick that the craftsmanship that went into the gun is "a goddamn work of art", but Nick doesn't think that guns are works of art or a tool which is also how Jeremiah refers to guns. Jeremiah tells Nick that he gave the gun to Russell when he and Martha had first moved into the house, and they hung it over the door.

After restoring the gun from the damage that the fire had caused, Jeremiah gives it to Nick. The two later do target practice together and a drunken Jeremiah uses the Colt Single Action Army to shoot up the floor of the house, telling Nick that there's blood in the Earth, eventually inspiring Nick to dig up his floorboards and find a skull. Nick uses the gun throughout his time as a part of the ranch's militia, shooting a zombified Gretchen Trimbol with it after Madison hesitates to shoot. When Jeremiah refuses to commit suicide and sacrifice himself to save the ranch from a vengeful Qaletaqa Walker, Nick kills him with the gun that Jeremiah gave him and Madison frames it as a suicide by placing the gun in Jeremiah's hand.

One of the Broke Jaw Ranch militiamen is shown to have a holstered Colt Single Action army while trapped inside of the ranch's pantry.

Even after the outbreak began, John Dorie refuses to take his guns out of a lockbox where he kept them at his cabin, instead preferring to use melee weapons to defend himself against walkers even when it puts his life into danger. Only when June's life falls into danger from a small herd and he couldn't get to her in time did John pull his guns out to quickly kill the remaining walkers. John subsequently gives one of his guns to June who keeps it with her when she leaves the cabin, storing it in her backpack during her time at the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium rather than actually utilizing the weapon.

When John takes off after June, he once again carries his remaining gun, utilizing it against both walkers and hostile survivors although John attempts to not actually kill anyone living. The gun is briefly stolen by Bill during a confrontation in the Trailer Park who threatens Morgan Jones with it. Morgan knocks the gun from Bill's hand with his staff and John recovers it and uses the gun to kill one of Leland's men on a nearby rooftop. As John helps Alicia Clark, Victor Strand and Luciana Galvez load their weapons and supplies into Al's SWAT van, he discovers June's backpack with his gun still inside of it which had been recovered by the group when the stadium fell. To his grief, John is informed by the group of the apparent death of June whom they knew as Naomi.

After killing Marcus with a rifle, John uses one of his revolvers to prevent the man from reanimating. Shortly thereafter, while fighting off a herd on the Route 185 Bridge, John lends one of his guns to Dakota for self-defense. Dakota uses it to kill a walker that was overpowering John, saving his life. However, after John discovers her murder of Cameron, Dakota threatens John and ultimately shoots him in the chest with his own gun before pushing John off of the bridge, killing him. When Dakota attempted to threaten Morgan, he knocks the weapon out of her hand with his battle axe.

After putting down a zombified John, June finds his second gun still on John's body while burying him. June contemplates using it to kill Virginia, but Hill takes the gun from her, aware of June's intentions. Hill subsequently hangs onto the weapon for his own use.

Morgan recovers the weapon that Dakota had used to kill John and gives it to June who starts wearing it as well as John's hat. Blaming Virginia for her husband's murder, June uses the same gun that Dakota had killed John with to execute Virginia - Dakota's mother and to June the reason for John's death - in revenge. June subsequently keeps the gun as her new primary weapon.

After being kidnapped by a man in an RV, June manages to overpower him long enough to draw her gun. The man is shocked to see the gun and reveals that it was his as he was John's father, John Dorie Sr. While talking with June, John deduces his son's death, partially from June's ownership of the gun. During their conversation, June realizes that Hill was hiding out at John's cabin and states that one reason that she wanted to find him was to retrieve the second gun which he still had after taking it from her. John Sr. agrees, commenting that the guns belonged as a pair. As the two travel, John asks what she knew of their history and June admits that she only knew that the guns had been in the Dorie family for generations. John proudly fills June in on what John I and John II had done with them during their respective ownership of the weapons. When John arrives at the cabin, Hill confronted him with the stolen gun, but John is able to disarm him and turns the gun upon Hill to demand answers about the Doomsday Cult. When Hill fought back, the two men briefly struggle over the gun before Hill shot John with John's own rifle. June arrives and kills Hill, saving John.

Following Hill's death, June and John recover the stolen second gun. June is later seen wearing both guns while attacking the USS Pennsylvania.

While confronting Teddy and Dakota, John Sr. and June are each armed with one of these guns. As the standoff continues, John signaled June to do the St Louis Barn Raiser trick shot. John fires his gun into the air, distracting Dakota who shoots John in the arm. As Dakota is distracted, June shoots the gun out of her hand. John and June took the guns with them into Teddy's Secret Bunker, John keeping his trained on Teddy as he entered.

During their time in the bunker, John and June keep the two guns hung up on the wall facing each other. One of John's daily tasks appears to be cleaning the guns. June later uses one to save John from a walker when he hallucinated it as Cindy Hawkins and he carries one when he hallucinates Cindy in the bunker's secret room before June disarms John. When John decides to leave the bunker in search of Cindy's body, he takes one of the guns with him and engages in a gunfight with three of the Stalkers, ultimately killing all three. When John and June left the bunker, each strap one of the guns to their belt.

John continues to carry his gun during his time as one of the guards at Strand's Tower, although June remains unarmed, presumably due to her non-combat role as the Tower's medic. During June's attempt to escape from the Tower with baby Mo, John drops his gun, but he later recovers it and used it to put down several walkers. However, he and June are forced to take cover when he is down to only one bullet. John later contemplates using his gun to kill Victor Strand, but he instead chooses to pistol-whip him unconscious. John apparently returns the gun to June before sacrificing himself to get Mo out of the Tower.

After being taken to PADRE, the guns are taken away from June and placed into deep storage. As a result, June switches to using pistols rather than her husband's guns, even after Madison's Group takes control of PADRE.

During the Fall of PADRE, June has Odessa Sanderson retrieve the guns for her which Odessa finds in a box labeled "Blue Jay," June's PADRE code name. When asked what they are by a confused Odessa, June calls them "a little help from the past." June uses the guns to fight off the herd, shooting a walker that grabs Odessa at one point. June later gives one to Odessa to use while June tends to an injured Hawk. Afterwards, June and Odessa both continue carrying one of the guns each.

Killed Victims

Fear the Walking Dead

• Deadeye Driscoll (Pre-Apocalypse)
• Russell Brown (Suicide)
• Martha Brown (Zombified)
• Gretchen Trimbol (Zombified)
• Jeremiah Otto
• Leland (Caused)
• Janis (Zombified)
• Marcus (Before Reanimation)
• John Dorie (Alive)
• Virginia
• Hill
• Garza (Zombified)
• 1 unnamed robber (Pre-Apocalypse, Accidental)
• 1 unnamed member of Leland's group
• 3 unnamed Stalkers (1 Alive)
• Numerous counts of zombies

Telltale Series

• Charles (Suicide)
• Brie (Zombified, Determinant)
• Alvin (Determinant)
• Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people

Appearances

The Telltale Series

Season One

	"Starved For Help"	Andrew St. John threatening Lee's group with a Single Action Army.
	"Starved For Help"	Brenda St. John with a Single Action Army revolver in her hand while being eaten by an undead Mark.
	"Around Every Corner"	Charles with a Single Action Army revolver after being devoured.
	"Around Every Corner"	Vernon aiming a Single Action Army revolver at Lee.
	"Around Every Corner"	Lee threatening the morgue survivors with Vernon's Single Action Army.
	"Around Every Corner"	Clementine holding a Single Action Army after saving Molly.
	"No Time Left"	Omid firing at walkers with a Single Action Army.
	"No Time Left"	Omid checking a Single Action Army before helping hold off a group of walkers in Fivel's Mansion.
	"Wyatt's Story"	Wyatt, holding a Single Action Army during a car chase.
	"Wyatt's Story"	Eddie, firing a Single Action Army at Nate.
	"Wyatt's Story"	Wyatt, holding a Single Action Army while trying to save Clyde.

Season 2

	"In Harm's Way"	Troy aiming at Clementine and Sarah with a Single Action Army.
	"In Harm's Way"	Bonnie holding a Single Action Army.
	"In Harm's Way"	Hank shooting Alvin with a Single Action Army.
	"Amid The Ruins"	Arvo aiming his Single Action Army at Clementine.
	"Amid The Ruins"	Jane aiming Arvo's Single Action Army at him.
	"Amid The Ruins"	Jane threatening Arvo with his Single Action Army.

References

• IMFDb - Info and pictures