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Also in 1955, Colt released one of the most famous revolvers in history, the Colt Python. In 1958 Penn-Texas merged with Fairbanks-Morse to form the Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation and in 1964 the conglomerate reorganized as Colt Industries. In 1956 Colt resumed production of the Single Action Army revolver and in 1961 began making commemorative ...
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.
Samuel Colt (/ k oʊ l t /; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
Colt sold the Paterson revolver and carbine to the United States Army and they saw limited use in the Second Seminole War in Florida. [1] The firepower advantage that they offered was initially praised by the troops, but the United States government considered the arms to be excessively fragile and prone to malfunction.
Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt House Revolver; Colt King Cobra; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt M1877; Colt M1878; Colt M1889; Colt M1892; Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver; Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top; Colt Model 1905 Marine Corps; Colt New Line; Colt New Police Revolver; Colt New Service; Colt Officer's Model (revolver) Colt Official Police ...
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 bullets (typically .44 caliber lead balls). It was designed in 1846 by American firearms inventor Samuel Colt to the specifications of Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker .
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.
Colt had been criticized for this high price, and by 1865 the revolver was reduced to $14.50 ($298.00 in 2024). The Colt "Army" revolver is to be distinguished from the Colt "Navy" revolver of which there were two models, the octagonal barrel Model 1851 Navy, and the round-barreled Model 1861 Navy, both Navy models being in the smaller .36 ...