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The Colt Paterson Revolver, the Walker Colt, the Colt's Dragoon and the Colt Single Action Army pistol of the American Frontier era are all good examples of this system.
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Colt and Paterson
This weapon became known as the Colt Paterson.
This instrument and patent No. 1304, dated August 29, 1836, protected the basic principles of his revolving-breech loading, folding trigger firearm named the Colt Paterson.
The Colt Paterson revolver found patchy success and failure ; some worked well, while others had problems.
* Colt Paterson ( 1836 )
Following his return from the Far East he was inspired to create his own caplock revolver: the Colt Paterson.
On the basis of Ellsworth's decision, Colt was able to raise some $ 200, 000 from investors to incorporate the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, the forerunner of the mighty Colt arms manufacturing empire.
Walker is said to have self-funded a trip to New York 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.
Colt and Revolver
* The Colt Revolver in the American West
He selected the Colt New Police Revolver in. 32 Colt Caliber as the first standard issue pistol for the NYPD.
* Revolver ( first depicted in the UK as a Dreyse M1907 semi-automatic pistol, and in North America as a Colt M1911 pistol.
* The Colt Revolver in the American West — Slim Pickens ' Single Action Army
Colt followed this design with the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver which was larger than the Baby Dragoon, but not quite as large as the full-sized version.
Colt 1851 Navy Revolver
* The Colt Revolver in the American West at the Autry National Center
* The Colt Revolver in the American West
* The Colt Revolver in the American West
The Colt Frontier Six Shooter Revolver and the Winchester Model 1873 or the Winchester Model 1892 in. 44-40 WCF caliber were one of the most common combinations seen in " the Old West ".
With the adoption of the Colt Single Action Army revolver in 1873, the service cartridges were Copper cased. 45 center fire Benét inside primed “ Colt ’ s Revolver Cartridges ” loaded with 30 grains of black powder and an inside lubricated bullet of 250 grain.
* The Colt Revolver in the American West — Single Action Army
no: Colt Single Action Army Revolver
* The Colt Revolver in the American West — Tom Mix's Single Action Army
* The Colt Revolver in the American West — Python Model Revolver Pair
* The Colt Revolver in the American West — Cased Python Hunter Model Revolver
To age Cort's Colt 1851 Navy Revolver and the other guns used, Reed experimented with simple measures.
Colt and Walker
* Firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt demonstrated his prototype for the 1851 Colt Navy and also his older Walker and Dragoon revolvers.
Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced during the Seminole War and seen first-hand their effective use as his 15-man unit defeated a larger force of 70 Comanche in Texas.
Walker wanted to order Colt revolvers for use by the Rangers in the Mexican-American War, and traveled to New York City in search of Colt.
From this new design, Whitney produced the first thousand-piece order known as the Colt Walker.
These models were based on the Walker Colt, and in three generations slight changes to each model showed the rapid evolution of the design.
The sidearm Gus McCrae carries in the book is a Colt Dragoon, while in the Miniseries he carries a Walker Colt, designed by Texas Ranger Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, and produced by Connecticut gun-maker Samuel Colt in 1847.
The most famous Colt products include the Walker Colt, Single Action Army or Peacemaker, and the Colt Python.
During the Mexican – American War ( 1846 – 1848 ), this prototype was seen by Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker who made some suggestions to Colt about making it in a larger caliber.
Colt's new revolvers found favor with Texan volunteers ( the progenitors of later Texas Rangers cavalry groups ), and they placed an order for 1, 000 revolvers that became known as the Walker Colt, ensuring Colt's continuance in manufacturing revolvers.
* Walker Colt ( 1847 )
Guns of this type saw use in the Mexican War as an alternative to the Colt Walker and Dragoon, most notably by General Winfield Scott.
Attesting to its quiet popularity, Patsy Walker ( along with Millie the Model and Kid Colt, Outlaw ) was among the very few titles published continuously by Marvel from the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, through Marvel's 1950s iteration as Atlas Comics, and into the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books.
At dawn on Sunday, September 6, Walker and Marmaduke squared off with Colt Navy revolvers on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Little Rock.
Colt and Colt's
* 1814 – Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company ( d. 1862 )
*. 32 S & W Long Also known as the. 32 " Colt's New Police " When chambered in Colt revolvers.
According to Colt historian Robert Lawrence Wilson, the " lectures launched Colt's celebrated career as a pioneer Madison Avenue-style pitchman ".
With the money he made from the sales of the Walkers and a loan from his cousin, banker Elisha Colt, Colt bought the machinery and tooling from Whitney to build his own factory: Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company factory at Hartford.
By telling each nation that the others were buying Colt's pistols, Colt was able to get large orders from many countries who feared falling behind in the arms race.
After Colt fired White for suggesting an improvement to his revolver, White took his idea to Colt's competitor, Smith & Wesson, who patented his invention and kept Colt from being able to build cartridge firearms for almost 20 years.
Colt historian Herbert G. Houze, wrote, " had it not been for Root's inventive genius, Colt's dream of mass production would never have been realized ".
At the time of his death, Colt's estate, which he left to his wife and three-year-old son Caldwell Hart Colt, was estimated to be valued at around $ 15 million ($ 350 million by 2009 standards ).
The only other person mentioned in Colt's will was Samuel Caldwell Colt, the son of his brother, John.
Colt historian William Edwards wrote that Samuel Colt had married Caroline Henshaw ( who later married his brother, John ) in Scotland in 1838 and that the son she bore later was Samuel Colt's and not his brother John's.
In a 1953 biography about Samuel Colt based largely on family letters, Edwards wrote that John Colt's marriage to Caroline in 1841 was a way to legitimize her unborn son as the real father, Samuel Colt, felt she was not fit to be the wife of an industrialist and divorce was a social stigma at the time.
Colt's widow, Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, and her brother, Richard Jarvis contested this.
In probate Caroline's son Sam produced a valid marriage license showing that Caroline and Samuel Colt were married in Scotland in 1838 and that this document made him a rightful heir to part of Colt's estate, if not to the Colt Manufacturing Company.
The weapons displayed included the Barrett REC7 PDW, Remington ACR, FN SCAR, Heckler & Koch HK416, Heckler & Koch XM8, LWRC M6A4, Robinson Arms XCR, SIG 556, as well as Colt's own improved version of the M4, the Colt ACC-M.
Barrymore's marriage to Colt was a precarious one from the start, with Barrymore filing divorce papers as early in the marriage as 1911, much to Colt's surprise, and later recanted by Barrymore as a misunderstanding by the press.
It was designed by Harry Colt, and alterations in 1989 by Donald Steel maintain Colt's standards.
Colt's Manufacturing Company ( CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company ) is a United States firearms manufacturer, whose first predecessor corporation was founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt.
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