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The Colt Revolving Belt Pistol or Navy Pistol, sometimes erroneously referred to as "Colt Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber" or "of Navy Caliber" (Naval is heavy gun and Navy Size Caliber was termed later for another Colt model), is a .36 caliber, six-round cap and ball revolver that was designed by Samuel Colt between 1847 and 1850.
Colt 1851 Navy Revolver; Colt Army Model 1860; Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver; Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top; Colt Paterson; Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers; Colt Walker
The Colt 1860 Army uses the same size frame as the .36 caliber 1851 Navy revolver. The frame is relieved to allow the use of a rebated cylinder that enables the Army to be chambered in .44 caliber. The barrel on the 1860 Army has a forcing cone that is visibly shorter than that of the 1851 Navy, allowing the Army revolver to have a longer cylinder.
Produced a variant of the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver: 3,700 Griswold & Gunnison revolvers [2] Hodgkins Macon, Georgia, Pittsylvania, Virginia.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines 400 to 700 Hyde & Goodrich New Orleans, Louisiana: Rifles H. C. Lamb Jamestown, North Carolina.50 and .58 caliber percussion breech-loading carbines 532 Maynard
Approximately 900 revolvers were shipped to the Confederate States Army and 600 to the Confederate States Navy through Bermuda to avoid the Southern Naval Blockade. [1] [2] The distinguishing characteristic of LeMat's revolver is that its 9-shot cylinder revolves around a separate central barrel of larger caliber than the chambers in the ...
The Colt Walker holds a powder charge of 60 grains (3.9 g) in each chamber, more than twice what a typical black powder revolver holds. It weighs 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 pounds (2 kg) unloaded, has a 9-inch (230 mm) barrel, and fires a .44 caliber (0.454 in (11.5 mm) diameter) conical and round ball.
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