Military revolvers: Colt Single Action Army, Webley Revolver, Enfield revolver, Smith & Wesson Model 10, LeMat Revolver, Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver, Nagant M1895, M1917 revolver, MAS 1873 revolver, Manurhin MR 73, Colt New Service

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Colt Single Action Army, Webley Revolver, Enfield revolver, Smith & Wesson Model 10, LeMat Revolver, Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver, Nagant M1895, M1917 revolver, MAS 1873 revolver, Manurhin MR 73, Colt New Service, Beaumont-Adams Revolver, Rast-Gasser M1898, Type 26 revolver, Modèle 1892 revolver, M1870 Gasser, Bodeo Model 1889, Schmidt M1882, M1879 Reichsrevolver, Colt M1905 New Marine, Henrion, Dassy & Heuschen Revolver, Union Automatic Revolver, 1872 Swiss revolver, Mauser Zig-Zag, Ganahl Revolver. Excerpt: The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the Model P, Peacemaker, M1873, Single Action Army, SAA, and Colt 45) is a single action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges. It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1873 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, today Colt's Manufacturing Company, and adopted as the standard military service revolver until 1892. The Colt Single Action Army has been offered in over 30 different calibers and various barrel lengths. Its overall appearance has remained consistent since 1873. Colt has discontinued its production twice, but brought it back due to popular demand. The revolver was popular with ranchers, lawmen, and outlaws alike, but current models are mostly bought by collectors and reenactors. Its design has influenced the production of numerous other models from other companies. Bound by the Rollin White patent (#12,648, April 3, 1855) and not wanting to pay a royalty fee to Smith & Wesson, Colt could not begin development of bored-through revolver cylinders for metallic cartridge use until April 4, 1869. The Colt Single Action Army was designed for the United States government service revolver trials of 1873 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company and adopted as the standard military service revolver. Its original moniker was the "New Model Army Metallic Cartridge Revolving Pistol". The very first production Single Action Army, serial number 1, thought lost for many years after its production, was found in a barn in Nashua, New Hampshire in the early 1900s. The .45 Colt cartridge was of center fire design containing charges of up to 40 grains (2.6 g) of fine grained black powder and a 255-grain (16.5 g) blunt round nosed bullet. Relative to period cartridges and most later handgun rounds, it was quite powerful in its full loading. The Colt Single Action Army revolver (along with the 1870 and 1875 Smith and Wesson Model 3 ("Schofield") revolvers) replaced