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 ...

Winchester were not content with just being America's main rifle maker, they also looked at becoming her main revolver maker and created prototypes such as the Wetmore-Wells which was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and the work done for Winchester by Hugo Borchardt to create prototypes that same year. Colt meanwhile were ...

The formative years of cartridge loading revolver design includes some designs for which documentation is scant. The 1870's saw Smith & Wesson create their No. 3 top break revolver whilst Colt's design was a development of their cap and ball conversion to cartridge with a fixed cylinder, ejector rod and loading gate, the Single Action ...

They were a revolver favored by Pat Garret and Jesse James. During the frontier era of the second half of the nineteenth century the Merwin Hulbert revolvers were not just the equal of the revolvers from Colt and Smith & Wesson but some regarded them as superior. Pat Garret and Jesse James were two men ...

In the post Civil War years Winchester, Colt and Smith & Wesson were all vying for market share in the booming firearms industry. The Civil War had ended but the Indian Wars were far from over as the Union pushed to expand its territory further west, with the intention of taking over the whole country ...

I remember the first time I wished I had a .44 Magnum revolver. I was pig hunting and the cover was so thick I needed one hand to push the bush out of my way and the 20" barreled Remington 870 pump action 12 gauge was just too big and awkward. It was one of ...

The Colt Single Action Army revolver is often described as "The gun that won the West", and along with the Winchester and Marlin lever actions that's pretty much true. That being said the Colt SAA was found all over the globe especially in the far reaches of the British Empire including in Africa, Australia, India ...