45 Colt ammunition. Such a huge revolver must have been intimidating! Before loading a percussion cylinder, I fire six caps with the muzzle pointed down. Puffs of dust at the muzzle show there is ...

Colt’s Manufacturing Company developed a new revolver designed to take advantage of the newly developed metallic cartridge. Previous generation revolvers used the percussion cap method ...

Samuel Colt Before the Colt Single Action Army, pistols used percussion caps to ignite a powder charge that had to be hand-loaded into each chamber of the revolver's cylinder. This was a slow and ...

Samuel Colt and his revolvers remain world famous ... was the danger of misfire if the black powder got damp or the percussion caps failed to explode. A backup pistol could be a literal lifesaver.

Indeed, some existing percussion revolvers were converted ... While externally similar to a standard Colt 1860 Army cap-and-ball revolver (inset, l.), the gun being discussed is a breech-loading, ...

The Colt Special Model 1861 was more or less a retooled Springfield Model 1861. The rifle was a standard percussion cap musket and saw extensive usage by both sides over the course of the conflict.

Newton, one of the prosecutors, told the judge the Colt Whitneyville Walker revolver from the Connecticut museum was worth more than $1 million. And the value of the model percussion cap pistol ...

And by the time of Jesse's bank robberies in the early 1870s, the weapon of choice was the Colt .45 Peacemaker, which combined the bullet, gunpowder, and percussion cap in one cartridge and was ...

It included a locking pawl to keep the cylinder in line with the barrel, and a percussion cap that made ignition more reliable, faster, and safer than the previous designs. Colt's US revolver patent ...

Colt’s Manufacturing Company developed a new revolver designed to take advantage of the newly developed metallic cartridge. Previous generation revolvers used the percussion cap method ...