enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Colt Single Action Army - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Single_Action_Army

    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.

  3. Cavalry draw - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry_draw

    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 ...

  4. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weapons_in_the...

    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

  5. Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Pocket_Percussion...

    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 ...

  6. List of Confederate arms manufacturers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_arms...

    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

  7. Category:Military revolvers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_revolvers

    Colt 1851 Navy Revolver; Colt Army Model 1860; Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt M1878; ... Remington Model 1858; Revolver 1882, 1882/1929; Ruger Security ...

  8. Gasser M1870 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasser_M1870

    A Gasser M1870 naval-variant revolver displayed at the Museum of Military History, Vienna, Austria. The Gasser M1870 was a revolver chambered for 11.3×36mmR and was adopted by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry in 1870. It was an open-frame model, with the barrel unit attached to the frame by a screw beneath the cylinder arbor.

  9. Colt Dragoon Revolver - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Dragoon_Revolver

    The Colt Model 1848 Percussion Army Revolver is a .44 caliber revolver designed by Samuel Colt for the U.S. Army's Regiment of Mounted Rifles. The 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.