Pietta is a family owned gun maker in Brescia, Italy. They have supplied American retailers with replica firearms since the 1960’s
Pietta started making a Colt 1873 replica in the middle 1990’s. Their 1873 revolver may have been largely the old Jager Dakota design at first, as tooling for several of Jager’s other models passed to Pietta when Jager went defunct.
In any event, it is observed that the Pietta sixgun transitioned from use of metric screws and measurements to one of Colt SAA dimensions by the early 2000’s. It was then picked up by EMF for marketing as their Great Western II. It has since been marketed by several American retailers.
Retailers / Models
- KBI 1873 / Liberty / Charles Daly 1873
- EMF Great Western II
- EMF Dakota II (brass grip frame, matte finish)
- EMF Alchemista (1860 Army grip frame)
- Cabelas 1873
- Traditions 1873
- Century Arms 1873
- Cimarron Frontier
- Cimarron Big Iron (brass grip frame, matte finish)
- Legacy Sports Puma Westerner
- AWA 1873
Import years: 1995 – Present
Serial ranges
- General: E00001 – E35000 (currently)
- Century Arms: CA1 prefix
1873 Colts and Clones 