The Army told Colt and John M. Browning they wanted their new pistol cartridge to be more like the lighter-kicking Schofield cartridge than the full-power .45 Colt. They were delivered the .45 ACP ...

Beginning with their Model 1861 and continuing with the New Model Army revolver in 1863, Remington was Colt's closest competitor, selling more than 116,000 revolvers to the Union government. The .44 ...

Kline, Kreider & Good Auctioneers, of Brownstown, conducted a public sale of real estate March 11 for Eugene H. and Reba W. Martin at 155 Laurel Drive, Pine Grove. A ...

The 1873 Single Action Army Peacemaker, Colt’s first revolver using the new metal cartridges, would become known as the “Gun that Won the West,” carried by settlers, lawmen, outlaws, Indians ...

Wales employs multiple firearms at various points in the movie, including a Colt Walker 1847 and a Colt Army Model 1860 revolver. The .44 caliber Walker revolver, widely used in the Mexican ...

Colt revolvers were important weapons in the US arsenal for much of the 19th century, with at least four designs — the Colt 1847, the Colt M1848 Dragoon, the Colt Army Model 1860, and the Colt ...

5. Teddy Roosevelt’s Colt Single Action Army: $1.47 Million This Colt Single Action Army might have been Roosevelt's carry gun. Rock Island Auction . The 26 th president of the United States was given ...

Colt started work on a pistol that used self-contained cartridges, but in 1870 the Army reviewed the gun and noted that it was too fragile and its .44 rimfire round lacked stopping power. They went ...

In 1846 the United States Army brought the Colt Walker 1847 into service - a revolver that is the most powerful sidearm ever issued by the US military. Saturday, June 28, ... In 1846 the United States ...

United States Colt Model 1860 Army revolver, .44 caliber. General History The Colt Model 1860 army revolver was manufactured from 1860 through 1873. The total production consisted of more than 200,000 ...

The Cimarron Fire Arms Open Top comes factory chambered for .44 Colt, or can be special ordered to also take .44 Specials, but plus-P ammo should not be used in these open topped revolvers.

The gun is none other than Elmer Keith’s No. 5—a tricked-out Colt Single Action chambered in .44 Special. Keith was born in Missouri in 1899. He grew up in Montana and later moved to Oregon ...