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1851 Navy Revolver
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- Offering consumers a lighter alternative to the Colt Dragoon Revolver, the 1851 Navy Revolver saw production at Colt’s Hartford, Connecticut manufacturing plant from 1850 to 1873. Originally termed the Ranger model, the pistol’s name later evolved into the Navy model due to the revolver’s intricately decorated cylinder.
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The first metallic cartridge revolver made by Colt was the Thuer-Conversion Model Revolver, a design that would not require a cylinder with cylindrical chambers so as not to infringe on the Rollin White patent.
Oct 30, 2018 · The Colt 1851 Navy Revolver sprang from the mind of brilliant firearms’ maker Samuel Colt in the late 1840s. Offering consumers a lighter alternative to the Colt Dragoon Revolver, the 1851 Navy...
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The Colt Model 1861 Navy cap & ball.36-caliber revolver was a six-shot, single-action percussion weapon produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1861 until 1873. It incorporated the "creeping" or ratchet loading lever and round barrel of the .44-caliber Army Model of 1860 but had a barrel one half inch shorter, at 7.5 inches.
Sep 23, 2010 · Most historians agree that he was using a .44 Dragoon on July 21, 1865, when he faced and killed Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri. However, by the late 1860s, when Hickok began his law enforcement career on the Kansas plains, he was packing the Colt 1851 Navy.
In this historical documentary video, I’ll tell you the story of how Colt’s Model 1851 Navy revolver was developed. The 1851 Navy had a 23-year long producti...
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The Model 1851 Navy was Colt’s most popular percussion revolver. Nearly a quarter million of the iconic .36 caliber six-shot model were produced between 1850 and 1873. The term "Navy" refers to the caliber of the revolver, not necessarily the branch of service.