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    The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun. It was designed for the U.S. government...
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    black-powder revolver round developed for the Colt Single Action Army revolver. This cartridge was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1873 and served as an official US...
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    The Colt Army Model 1860 is a cap & ball .44-caliber single-action revolver used during the American Civil War made by Colt's Manufacturing Company. It...
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    Colt products include the Colt Walker, made in 1847 in the facilities of Eli Whitney Jr., the Colt Single Action Army, the Colt Python, and the Colt M1911...
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    of the inventors of the Colt Single Action Army (M1873), William Mason, as Colt's first attempt at manufacturing a double-action revolver. It was the first...
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    The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely...
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    (1871), a year after the Colt Open Top (1872) and almost simultaneously alongside the Colt Single Action Army (1873), the Colt New Line was one of the...
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    models include the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, the Webley, the Colt Single Action Army, the Colt Official Police, Smith & Wesson Model 10, the Smith & Wesson...
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    most famous handguns, the Colt Single Action Army (also known as the Peacemaker and Colt 45). Total production numbers of the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver were...
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  • Colt 45 may refer to: .45 ACP cartridge .45 Colt cartridge Colt Single Action Army, a revolver produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company M1911 pistol,...
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    caliber known as the .45 Colt. This new design started production in 1873, giving birth to a new model, the Colt Single Action Army, and a new serial numbering...
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    The Colt M1878 is a double-action revolver that was manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1878 until 1907. It is often referred to as the "Frontier"...
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    the U.S. Army authorized officers to carry M1873 Colt Single Action Army revolvers, chambered in .45 Colt, and issued from reserve stocks. Army Ordnance...
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    produced, in .32-20, .38-40, and .44-40 as a companion arm to the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Two versions were offered: a rifle with a 26 in (66 cm)...
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    The Colt New Service is a large frame, large caliber, double-action revolver made by Colt from 1898 until 1941. Made in various calibers, the .45 Colt version...
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    commercial snubnosed revolver was the six-shot, 3 in (76 mm) barreled Colt Single Action Army revolver, made without an ejector rod. It was officially called...
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    recently adopted Colt Single Action Army revolver. The .44 Colt was made for use in the Richards-Mason conversion of Colt's 1860 Army percussion revolver...
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  • Charles Brinckerhoff Richards (1833–1919), engineer, designer of the Colt Single action army revolver, and Yale professor Charles Dow Richards (1879–1956),...
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  • Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill into law which designated the Colt Single Action Army Revolver as Arizona's state firearm. In March 2012, Indiana adopted...
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    The Colt Python is a double action/single action revolver chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge. It was first introduced in 1955 by the Colt's Manufacturing...
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    casehardened frames. Although Colt predominantly was a manufacturer of popular revolvers, such as the Colt Single Action Army, the company began in the 1880s...
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  • chambered in .45 caliber, such as the M1911 pistol or Colt Single Action Army .45 ACP, pistol cartridge .45 Colt, revolver cartridge Jacobite rising of 1745 or...
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  • engineer who worked for Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co., where he was responsible for the development of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Richards was...
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  • II Bisley (solitaire), a solitaire card game a variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver an office furniture manufacturer founded in Surrey, England...
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    feature absent from nearly all successive Colt revolvers until the development of the Colt Single Action Army in 1873. Although the second model ring lever...
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  • westerns, as well as a black armband on his left arm, and wields the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which he refers to as "the greatest handgun ever made"...
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    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...
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  • Company, Inc. was known for producing single action revolvers, which were clones of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. The factory was located "Under...
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  • mockumentary Cunk on Earth where he was interviewed as an expert on the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Ferguson is also a Technical Specialist with Armament...
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  • 1860s), Colt and Remington models Black powder conversion revolvers (late 1860s to early 1870s), Colt and Remington models Colt Single Action Army cartridge...
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