Pietta continues its partnership with the legendary Pendleton Round-Up with a new commemorative single-action revolver celebrating 116 years of Western rodeo tradition.
There are few phrases in Western culture more recognizable than “Let ’Er Buck.” For more than a century, those words have been associated with the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon, one of America’s best-known rodeos and a living celebration of the traditions of the American West.
Now Pietta Firearms is continuing its partnership with the Pendleton Round-Up with the Pendleton II, the second revolver in what the Italian gunmaker says is becoming an annual commemorative series.
Following the response to the inaugural Pendleton revolver introduced in 2025, Pietta returned for 2026 with a new design celebrating the 116th Pendleton Round-Up.
And Pietta didn’t simply put a logo on a sixgun.
A Sixgun That Tells a Story
Built around Pietta’s traditional single-action platform, the Pendleton II incorporates imagery taken directly from the history and identity of the Round-Up.
The polished cylinder is decorated with scenes inspired by the famous Pendleton bucking chutes and a bucking horse and rider. The black grips continue the theme with colorful Western artwork, while “LET ’ER BUCK” appears prominently along the barrel.
Look at the opposite side and there’s another detail with considerably more history behind it:
September 29, 1910.
That’s the date the first Pendleton Round-Up began.
What began in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1910 grew into one of the country’s signature Western events, preserving traditions of rodeo, horsemanship and Western culture for generations.
That makes the date engraved into the Pendleton II more than decoration. It connects the modern revolver directly to the event it commemorates.
.357 or .45 Colt
Pietta offers the Pendleton II in two chamberings that should be very familiar to Cowboy Action shooters: .357 Magnum and .45 Colt.
Both versions feature a 4.75-inch barrel and Pietta’s Ultra Black engraved and painted grips. Pietta currently lists both at $1,175.
For the CAS crowd, the .357 version in particular looks right at home. But Pietta isn’t really positioning the Pendleton II as a dedicated competition gun.
The company describes it as a collector’s piece intended not only for people who have attended the Pendleton Round-Up, but for rodeo enthusiasts and those who appreciate traditionally styled single-action revolvers.
That distinction makes sense. With its extensive artwork and commemorative markings, this is a revolver designed as much to celebrate Western history as it is to be fired.
From Italy to the American West
There’s also a fitting connection between Pietta and the subject matter.
F.LLI Pietta was founded in Italy in 1963 and became one of the best-known manufacturers of reproduction historical firearms. Its percussion revolvers and later cartridge-firing single actions have helped keep designs from the 19th-century American firearms era in production long after the originals became collectibles.
For Cowboy Action shooters, historical reenactors and Old West firearms enthusiasts, the Pietta name hardly needs an introduction.
The company’s American operation is now based in Casper, Wyoming, putting the U.S. side of the business squarely in the modern American West.
The Beginning of a Collectible Series
Perhaps the most interesting part of the Pendleton II isn’t this particular revolver at all.
It’s what comes next.
Pietta says the success of the original 2025 Pendleton revolver led the company and the Pendleton Round-Up to continue the collaboration, with plans for a new revolver design each year.
If that continues, collectors aren’t looking at a single commemorative sixgun. They’re looking at the beginning of a series.
And that’s where things could get interesting a decade from now.
A row of individually designed Pietta single-actions documenting successive years of the Pendleton Round-Up would amount to a firearms timeline of one of America’s enduring Western traditions.
For a company known for keeping the guns of the Old West alive, that’s a pretty natural partnership.
Let ’Er Buck, indeed.
