The Colt Python made its debut in 1953 made on the new I frame and built to compete with Smith & Wesson's Model 27 in .357 Remington Magnum. Those early Smith & Wesson Model 27's were hand made especially the registered magnums which were registered to the owner. Colt were in the business of making ...
Belgium has been a center of gun-making for a very long time and so there have been a large number of makers, many with patents registered in Belgium and Britain, and so there are a great many unusual arms made especially handguns. This is especially true for revolvers and one could create a fascinating and ...
The Webley Fosbery revolver is one of the most interesting handguns ever created. Favored by First World War airmen for whom being able to shoot accurately at an enemy with one hand whilst still piloting your bi-plane with the other was a daily necessity; and for whom not having hot spent cartridge cases ejecting into ...
When Colt ceased production of their double-action revolvers back in 1999 there was much wailing and gnashing of the teeth amongst the Colt aficionados. It remained possible to get a Colt Python made to special order up until 2005 when all production completely ceased. So in recent years if someone has wanted a Colt double-action ...
Elvis Presley had good taste in revolvers. He was a "US male" before he became a rock and roll star and he grew up in a nation that, at that time, was strongly patriotic, and which held high moral standards. Elvis was also drafted into the army and served overseas so he was also subject ...
Back in the eighties I was invited to a "steel challenge" pistol shoot and was offered the use of a friend's Colt Diamondback for the full day shoot which I happily accepted. Suffice to say it was such a phenomenal revolver that when the sad time came to hand it back I had a new ...
Freedom Arms began back in 1978 as a joint venture between Dick Casull, the co-inventor and developer of the .454 Casull revolver hunting cartridge along with Jack Fullmer, and Wayne Baker. The .454 Casull was created using a strengthened and lengthened .45 Colt cartridge case. The case being about a tenth of an inch longer ...
In the process of colonizing large parts of the world the British created some of the most practical firearms ever made and the break action Webley & Scott revolvers stand tall amongst them. These revolvers are solid and well made, easy to shoot and easy to reload. Its a shame that Britain's government saw fit ...
The Colt Single Action Army is in all probability the most well known revolver on the face of the earth. It has been the star of almost every western movie Hollywood has created and it was the star of much of the history of the Wild West, and even of the British Empire of Victorian ...
Samuel Colt was ahead of the pack in many of his ideas and he had designed and patented a double action revolver way back in the 1850's, a patent that expired in 1857 and which Colt himself did not attempt to renew. Colt considered that the double action revolver was unreliable and when we consider ...