The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson...
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Colt Single Action Army along with a new line of pocket revolvers, sorted in five different calibers. Since it was an entirely new line of revolvers this...
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the hammer, as with most Colt percussion revolvers. In spite of the relative crudity of the sighting arrangement, these revolvers and their modern replicas...
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of a loading lever this evolved into the 1849 pocket revolver (see Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers). Colt Model of 1848 Holster Pistol (First Model Dragoon)...
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"Army" model, and Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers, all of which saw extensive use in the American Civil War. Although American revolvers were the most common...
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safe to use in antique firearms. Colt New Line Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers Flayderman, Norm (17 December...
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largest group of U.S. Colt Cavalry revolvers was inspected by David F. Clark, his D.F.C. cartouche being encountered on revolvers inspected from 1880 to...
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order for 1,000 revolvers that became known as the Colt Walker, ensuring Colt's continuance in manufacturing revolvers. In 1848, Colt was able to start...
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conversions. The Colt company continued converting muzzle-loading percussion revolvers into rear-loaders until 1878, but in 1871 Colt's had patented at...
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most Colt Paterson revolvers that had been produced from 1836 until 1839. Unlike later revolvers, a folding trigger was incorporated into the Colt Paterson...
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64 inches. They were mainly based upon the Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver developed by Elisha K. Root. Colt revolving pistols and rifles were attractive...
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The Colt Trooper is a medium frame, double-action revolver featuring a six-round cylinder, chambered for .22 Long Rifle, .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire...
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Remington Model 1858 (redirect from New Model Army Revolver)
The Remington-Beals Model Revolvers[dubious – discuss] along with subsequent models and variations were percussion revolvers manufactured by Eliphalet...
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only real advantage of the Remington-Beals over well established Colt's pocket revolvers was in its solid-frame design. So, in 1860 Remington ceased the...
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This is a list of single- and double-action revolvers, listed alphabetically by manufacturer. The table is sortable for every column. List of firearms...
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(1976). Adams' Revolvers. London: Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 0-214-20089-2. ISBN 0-214-20080-2. Media related to Beaumont-Adams revolvers at Wikimedia Commons...
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Pepper-box (redirect from Pepper-box revolvers)
Colt Navy revolver. Transitional revolvers and pepperboxes started disappearing gradually in the 1850s with the manufacture of true revolvers by Colt...
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Derringer (redirect from Colt Derringer)
handgun that is neither a revolver, semi-automatic pistol, nor machine pistol. It is not to be confused with mini-revolvers or pocket pistols, although some...
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Ethan Allen (armsmaker) (section Percussion revolvers)
slowly losing market share in the 1850s to Colt's 1849 Pocket and 1851 Navy revolvers. The later revolver pepperboxes were produced well into the Allen...
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Open Top Pocket Model Revolver (USA – revolver – 1871) Colt Paterson (US – revolver – 1836) Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers (USA – revolver) Baby Dragoon:...
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in 1853. Due heavy competition from Colt's and Adams revolvers at the time, sales of the early Webley revolvers was only modest. At that time the company...
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Webley Longspur (category Early revolvers)
established, popular Colt's and Adams revolvers. The first commercially available percussion revolver was developed by Samuel Colt in 1834; serial production began...
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cap-and-ball revolvers when converting those to work with cartridges was 0.3800 inches (9.65 mm), and the cartridge made to work in those revolvers was logically...
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Cylinder (firearms) (category Revolvers)
fired case. Most revolvers using this method of loading are single-action revolvers. Oddly enough, the loading gate on the original Colt designs (and copied...
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Model 1 1/2 and the Smith & Wesson Model No. 2 Army-revolvers, many caliber .32 rimfire Slocum revolvers were used as a Backup-weapon for self-defence by...
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Repeating firearm (section Revolver action)
weapons quicker and more convenient. Revolvers became very popular sidearms since its introduction by the Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company...
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The Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 (commonly shortened to Colt IAR or IAR6940) is a light machine gun designed by Phil Hinckley and manufactured by...
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Harrington & Richardson (section Revolvers)
their large frame 6-shot .32 cal revolvers, specifically the Manual Ejecting and Automatic Ejection Double Action Revolvers. The 32 H&R cartridge was dimensionally...
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