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  2. Colt Walker - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. .45 Black Powder Magnum - Wikipedia

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    The Colt Walker was unsurpassed in power by any commercially-manufactured repeating handgun from its introduction in 1847 until the arrival of the .357 Magnum in 1935. Samuel Colt , with suggestions from Captain Samuel H. Walker , designed it as a "cap and ball" revolver to shoot both lead round balls and picket bullets.

  4. Samuel Hamilton Walker - Wikipedia

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    Walker is best known as the co-inventor of the Walker Colt revolver, along with arms manufacturer Samuel Colt.Walker is said to have self-funded a trip to New York City to meet with Colt and proposed to him the concept of a weapon based on the then-popular five-shot Colt Paterson revolver, with many enhancements such as adding a sixth round, being powerful enough to kill either a man or a ...

  5. A. Uberti - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, Uberti's fidelity to the originals is such that many internal parts of their current Colt replica may be interchanged with those of an original first-generation Single Action Army. [15] Following is a list of firearm categories currently available from Uberti: [16] Handguns. Black powder revolvers (1847 to 1860s), Colt and ...

  6. Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver - Wikipedia

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    This loading mechanism was subsequently used in the design of the Colt Army Model 1860, Colt Navy Model 1861, and Colt Police Model 1862. The Sidehammer was the also Colt's first solid-frame, spur-trigger gun. This anatomical characteristic was not used again until the three models of the Colt Derringer started production in 1870. For the two ...

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  8. Colt Dragoon Revolver - Wikipedia

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    The Colt Dragoon Revolver had a comparatively shorter cylinder (thus preventing overloading the cylinder) and held up to 50 grains of powder, whereas the Walker had used up to 60 grains of powder. The Dragoon Revolver had a shorter barrel at 7.5 inches (190 mm) (and on some later revolvers, 8 inches [200 mm]) as compared to the 9-inch (230 mm ...

  9. Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...