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  2. Colt Model 1909 - Wikipedia

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    The M1909 was an improvement on the Colt Model 1907, which was an earlier design by Browning chambered in .45 ACP that was turned down by the United States Department of War due to several issues, including constant jamming. In August 1909, Browning demonstrated his new automatic to Lieutenant Colonel Thompson by firing 500 rounds through it ...

  3. Colt New Service - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Army Model 1917 was created to supplement insufficient stocks of M1911 pistols during World War I. [2] The Colt M1917 Revolver was a New Service with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge and the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had headspacing machined into the ...

  4. M1917 Revolver - Wikipedia

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    Colt had previously produced a version of their .45 Long Colt caliber New Service model, designated the M1909, to replace their .38 Long Colt caliber M1892 revolvers that had demonstrated inadequate stopping power during the Philippine–American War. The Colt M1917 Revolver was essentially the same as the M1909, but with a cylinder bored to ...

  5. .45 Colt - Wikipedia

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    The .45 Colt (11.43×33mmR), often called the .45 Long Colt, is a rimmed straight-walled handgun cartridge dating to 1872.It was originally a black-powder revolver round developed for the Colt Single Action Army revolver.

  6. Colt M1892 - Wikipedia

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    Official U.S. Army description of the original Army Model 1892 revolver and its .38 Long Colt ammunition. U.S. Army Ordnance Department (1917). Description of the Colt's Double-Action Revolver, Caliber .38, with Rules for Management, Memoranda of Trajectory, and Description of Ammunition. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. hdl:2027 ...

  7. Colt's Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    The M1892 was replaced by the New Service Double Action revolver in 1899. In caliber .45 Colt, the New Service was accepted by the U.S. Military as the Model 1909 .45 revolver. The New Service revolver was available in other calibers such as .38 Special and, later in the 20th century, .45 ACP (as the M1917 revolver) and .357 Magnum. [48]

  8. .38 Long Colt - Wikipedia

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    The .38 Long Colt remained the Army's primary revolver cartridge until 1909, when the .45 M1909 cartridge [b] was issued along with the .45 Colt New Service revolver as the new standard military sidearm for the U.S. Army. However, some of the old .38 Long Colt revolvers and ammunition remained in reserve stocks, and when the U.S. entered World ...

  9. List of revolvers - Wikipedia

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    Colt Army Model 1860: Colt's Manufacturing Company: Paper-wrapped.44 caliber.44 Colt: 6 United States: 1860-1873 Colt Army Special / Colt Official Police: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle.32-20.38 Special.41 Long Colt: 6 United States: 1908-1969 Colt Buntline: Colt's Manufacturing Company.45 Colt: 6 United States: 1957 ...

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