In an era when the average man had one shot from a fowler or musket, maybe two with a swivel barrel, and the same for a holster pistol, a smoothbore double gun was one of the most versatile weapons of its time. With a double-barreled flintlock, one could deliver two rounds
As far back as the 1850s, Colt began offering silver plating and gold-washed cylinders, hammers and triggers as options on its percussion pistols and, later on, 1870s cartridge conversions. Gold plating (or gold wash) was usually added to engraved guns. Over time, silver plating wore thin on the high edges and
One of my favorite Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) games is the Wild Bunch match. Introduced a number of years ago by the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS), the match is based on the 1969 Western epic “The Wild Bunch,” directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest
The second most-issued percussion revolver during the Civil War has become known as the Remington Model 1858. This designation is somewhat erroneous, however, as it’s based on the date of Sept. 14, 1858, when the patent was granted to inventor Fordyce Beals. The first version was called the Remington-Beals Army revolver,
The Colt 1871-72 Open Top was new, innovative and virtually obsolete the day it was introduced! [in_content post=”194240″ alignment=”align-left” /] In Colt’s haste to introduce a new self-contained-cartridge-loading revolver as soon as possible after the expiration of the S&W Rollin White patent, the company chose to build a model based
House guns and truck guns for today’s personal defense!
