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Early .45 Colt cartridges, in the center is the shorter cartridge for the S&W Schofield revolver with Benet primer. The .45 Schofield / 11.5x27mmR, also referred to as .45 Smith & Wesson is a revolver cartridge developed by Smith & Wesson for their S&W Model 3 Schofield top-break revolver.
Below is a list of rimmed cartridges (R). Although similar, ... .45 Colt.45 Auto Rim.45 Schofield.454 Casull.455 Webley.475 Linebaugh.500 Linebaugh
The S&W revolver used the .45 Schofield, a shorter cartridge, which would also work in the Colt, however the Army's S&W Schofield revolvers could not chamber the longer .45 Colt, [2] so in 1874 Frankford Arsenal, then almost exclusive supplier of small arms ammunition to the U.S. Army, dropped production of the .45 Colt cartridge in favor of ...
When it became obvious in the field that the two cartridges would not work interchangeably in the Schofield (although they both worked in the Colt), the U.S. government adopted the shorter .45 Schofield cartridge as the standard cartridge. Despite the change, old stocks of the longer .45 Colt rounds in the supply line caused the Army to drop ...
.45 Auto Rim.45 Schofield.45-60 Winchester.45-70.50-70 Government.50-110 Winchester.50-140 Sharps.219 Donaldson Wasp.219 Zipper.220 Rook.222 rimmed.255 Jeffery Rook.300 Rook.300 Sherwood.303/25.303 British.303 Savage.375/303 Westley Richards Accelerated Express.307 Winchester.348 Winchester.357 Magnum.360 No. 5 Rook.380 Long.375 Winchester
The .45 ACP (not to be confused with .45 Colt) cartridge is a very popular caliber due to its low velocity and relatively high stopping power. This caliber is associated most with the Colt M1911, logically, as ACP literally means 'Automatic Colt Pistol'. However, there are many more guns and variations on the M1911 that are chambered in .45 ACP.
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The Army issued the "Revolver Ball Cartridge, Caliber .45 M1875" which was a hybrid, with a 45 Colt rim and a 45 Schofield case length. It was not accurate in the Colt Single Action Army , and would not extract reliably in the Schofield revolver ( Smith & Wesson No. 3 Revolver ).