revolver was also issued to the Army's "Dragoon" regiments. This revolver was designed as a solution to numerous problems encountered with the Colt Walker...
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The Colt Walker, sometimes known as the Walker Colt, is a single-action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six charges of black powder behind six...
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36-caliber Navy revolver was much lighter than the contemporary Colt Dragoon Revolvers developed from the .44 Walker Colt revolvers of 1847, which, given...
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into Samuel Colt's second venture in the arms trade in the form of the "Baby Dragoon"-a small revolver developed in 1847–48. The "Baby Dragoon" was in parallel...
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Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable. Colt's first two business ventures were producing firearms in Paterson...
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Pepper-box (redirect from Allen's revolver)
alternative to the Colt Dragoon revolver and the Colt Walker revolver, most notably by General Winfield Scott. A late example the Butterfield revolver of 1855 used...
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model's patent. Colt Paterson (1836) Colt Walker (1847) Colt Dragoon (1848) Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (1849) Colt 1851 Navy (1851) Colt 1855 Sidehammer...
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domestic pigeon Colt Dragoon Revolver, a handgun Dragon (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dragoon. If an internal...
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ammunition feed. Famous revolver models include the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, the Webley, the Colt Single Action Army, the Colt Official Police, Smith &...
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Purpose Revolver, .44 Magnum) (never issued) Beretta 92SB (9×19mm) (JSSAP winner) Browning Hi-Power (9×19mm) (Special Forces) Colt Dragoon Revolver (1st/2nd/3rd)...
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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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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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Company Colt 1851 Navy (US – revolver – 1851) Colt Army Model 1860 (US – revolver – 1860) Colt Dragoon Revolver (US – revolver – 1848) Colt House Revolver (US...
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the first firearm manufactured by Samuel Colt, developed shortly before the advent of the Colt Paterson revolver. The first model was succeeded by the second...
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The Ganahl revolver is an Austro-Hungarian version of the Colt Dragoon. It began to be used by the Austro-Hungarian Navy in 1850. Walter Schultz, 1000...
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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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loading caplock Hall rifles, muzzle loading rifled muskets and Colt Dragoon revolvers gave them an advantage over the smoothbore flintlock Brown Bess...
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S. Model 1842, was issued to the Dragoons during the Seminole War and US-Mexican War until the Colt Dragoon revolver was introduced in 1848. The last...
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water, Mattie encounters Chaney. She shoots him with her father's Colt Dragoon Revolver, wounding him and driving off his horse, but the shot draws the...
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Samuel Griswold (redirect from Griswold and Grier Revolver)
Griswold's business partner. The Griswold Gunnison revolvers are reduced sized copies of the Colt Dragoon, round barrel not octagonal (but in .36 cal not...
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2012 (2012-01-08) 3.76 Jerry Lee Lewis first record album, Civil War era Colt Dragoon Revolver, pygmy goat 3 3 "Shoeshine Mike" January 15, 2012 (2012-01-15) 3...
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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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cartridge of the .45 Colt family. The .45 BPM was originally developed for use in replica Colt Walker black powder revolvers. Specifically, Colt Walker replicas...
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the Colt Walker, Colt Dragoon Revolver, Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver, Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, and Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver. Other...
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pistol was actually much more common than the early Patterson Arms revolvers made by Colt. Few records survive, so much is derived from the physical weapons...
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Rimfire) Colt Dragoon (US – Single-Action Revolver – .44 Revolver Ball) Colt Baby Dragoon(US – Single-Action Revolver – .44 Revolver Ball) Colt M1855 Pocket...
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Druze/Christian strife of 1860. Painting by Jan-Baptist Huysmans. Two Colt Dragoon revolvers, Lincoln's gift to the Emir Abdelkader in Damascus during 1862 Memorial...
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only briefly before a patent suit by Colt forced the company to stop producing the Leavitt & Wesson Dragoon revolver. But Leavitt's early patents, and those...
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powder revolvers (1847 to 1860s), Colt and Remington models Black powder conversion revolvers (late 1860s to early 1870s), Colt and Remington models Colt Single...
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