Pate has compiled an easy to read and understand narrative of the Colt New Model Army revolver (NMA), meticulously researched with over 1400 footnotes. Few authors in the gun world today make as ...

But it wasn’t the well-known Richards or the Richards-Mason conversions, for both incorporated surplus parts from Colt’s.36-cal. 1851 Navy and .44-cal. 1860 Army – two of the most prominent ...