Colt saa parts diagram
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To the old adage, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” add, “Build a better gun, and the world will copy it-legally or illegally.” Such was the case with Colt revolvers.ĭuring the cap-and-ball period of the 1850s, Sam Colt licensed several European manufacturers to make legal copies of Colt revolvers. Garavaglia in their 1985 book Firearms of the American West: 1866–1894,“The Single Action Army -termed the ‘Model P’ by the factory and the ‘Peacemaker’ by Benjamin Kittredge-commanded the most attention ….Nearly every notable frontier character of the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s owned at least one Peacemaker.” And it was equally well suited to the everyday anonymous Westerner who wanted a simple but strong and reliable gun.īut not all “Colts” were actually Colts.
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This was true even though Remington, Smith &Wesson and others made comparable quality arms.Īfter 1873, write Worman and coauthor Louis A. Worman in his 2005 book Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather. “They were as common as spittoons in a saloon,” writes firearms historian Charles G.
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And they still don’t care much about them today.Ĭolts were the most common holster revolvers in the West during the second half of the 19th century. But I had to sell them dirt cheap, because very few collectors cared enough about them to add them to their Colt collections. When I was buying antique guns in Mexico during the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, I hauled dozens of old, well-worn copies and forgeries of Colt single-action revolvers back to the United States. Many copies saw use in the Mexican revolutions.