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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…