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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. It is similar to the .45 Colt cartridge, but with a shorter case and a larger rim. The. 45 Schofield will generally work in revolvers chambered for that cartridge; but the ...
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.
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 ...
Below is a list of rimmed cartridges (R). Although similar, it must be noted that rimmed cartridges differ from rimfire cartridges ( list ). A rimmed cartridge is a cartridge with a rim, whose primer is located in the center of the case head; the primer is detonated by the firing pin striking that center location.
There is a picture on the .45 Colt page that includes a box marked "12 Revolver Ball Cartridges, Calibre .45, Frankford Aresenal, 1876," an original 45 Colt cartridge, an original "Revolver Ball Cartridge" as issued, and a modern commercial 45 Colt cartridge. You can plainly see in the picture that the rim on the "Revolver Ball Cartridge" is ...
Despite the change, old stocks of the longer .45 Colt rounds in the supply line caused the Army to drop most of the Schofields and continue with the Colt. Major Schofield had patented his locking system and earned a payment on each gun that S&W sold; and at the time, his older brother, John M. Schofield, was the head of the Army Ordnance Board ...
.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
Consequently, firearms that fire .460 S&W are usually capable of firing the less powerful .454 Casull, .45 Colt, and .45 Schofield rounds, but this must be verified with each firearm's manufacturer (most lever-action firearms can only feed cartridges within a certain overall length and bullet profile range). The reverse, however, does not apply ...