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Colt’s Idea

In 1955 Colt introduced the soon to be legendary Python. Originally conceived as a sort of “super-grade” target revolver, the […]

In the early 1890s, Colt was playing catch-up in the target revolver category, while records were being broken with S&W’s […]

[…] 100 were shipped every 12 months. Then World War II brewed up requiring all of Colt’s production capabilities for military weapons.

Colt‘s Cap & Ball Revolvers

For about a decade Samuel Colt was quiet as far as introducing new revolver models. Obviously they were using all […]

What did I mean about the “first time?” The .45 Colt’s first term of service was 1873 to 1892. The […]

[…] easy to say: “Let’s start with a plain Jane modern Colt Peacemaker and re-apply the lost Victorian details. To do […]

[…] Model 1915 and Model 1917) intended to compete directly with Colt’s wildly popular Model .32 ACP 1903, and later .380 […]

We’re going to lump the last three Colt cap and ball revolvers together in one article because they were simply […]