What type of gun is the Saint of Killers rocking on The Preacher?

grill_gus

What I'm trying to figure out roughly is the mass of his bullets, and if there's an element with a sufficient atomic weight--they seem to travel at about 70 meters per second, much slower than standard low-velocity rounds , yet were able to blow right through two doors of a police cruiser. I'm guessing it was a .45 caliber but those chambers look pretty damn big and want to confirm before I start running calculations.

Originally asked by DukeZhou on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

In the comics it's a .44 Walker Colt and they are magic and so not subject to earthly physics . Colt Walker at Internet Movie Firearms Database The Colt Walker, sometimes known as the Walker Colt, was a single-action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six charges of black powder behind six bullets (typically .44 caliber lead balls). It was designed in 1846 as a collaboration between Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker and American firearms inventor Samuel Colt. The Devil tended to the gunman's wounds, the magical Walker Colts were cast , and the man left Hell—but not before gunning down the Devil after the latter insulted him. Wikipedia - Saint of Killers The Saint of Killers possesses a...

Full answer by Paulie_D: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/75473 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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