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The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun.It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as the standard-issued revolver of the U.S. Army from 1873 to 1892.
Not all cavalry used this method of draw, or located their holsters on the right hand side of the body. In the "Manual of Arms for the Sharps Rifle, Colt Revolver and Swords (1861)", [1] which was used by the Union Army, the revolver would have been worn on the left side, in front of the sabre-hook. To draw the revolver, the soldiers were ...
A .44 caliber revolver made for the US Cavalry to replace the heavier Colt M1848 Dragoon. The Bessemer steel process invented in the 1850s made a lighter stronger revolver in .44 caliber possible. Colt M1861 Navy revolver: Updated version of the .36 caliber Colt M1851 Navy with lines similar to the Colt M1860 Army. Colt M1862 Police revolver
Model 1842 musket with bayonets, M1841 Mississippi Rifle, M1842 dragoon pistol, M1840 Cavalry saber, M1840 light artillery sabers, 10-inch shells, various small arms and ordnance J. C. Peck Atlanta, Georgia: Specialty, rampart rifles Perry by Keen, Walker Danville, Virginia.54 caliber percussion breech-loading carbines 280 T. W. Radcliffe
Revolver m/1871 has a Lefaucheux-Francotte double action system with solid frame and fixed cylinder, with no mechanical extractor. Made for Swedish army, it was chambered for 11 mm centerfire cartridges. [3] [1] In 1875, Principality of Serbia bought several thousands of these revolvers for the Serbian military. [2]
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder ...
The Remington-Beals Model Revolvers [dubious – discuss] along with subsequent models and variations were percussion revolvers manufactured by Eliphalet Remington & Sons in .31 (Pocket) .36 (Navy) or .44 (Army) caliber, used during the American Civil War, and was the beginning of a successful line of medium and large frame pistols.
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