Posted on 11/05/2016 11:19:05 AM PDT by PROCON
On October 26, 1881, shots rang out at the O.K. Corral. Within the first 30 seconds of the shootout, three members of the Clanton gang were killed. Men on both sides, including Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Billy Clanton, would become legends in part because of what happened in Tombstone, Arizona. They were firing a legendary weapon, too.
The Colt Single Action Army held many names over the years. First came its clunky official title, the New Model Army Metallic Cartridge Revolving Pistol. But soon it became known as the Frontier, the Equalizer, the Model P, and most famously, the Peacemaker.
There was no peace that October day in Tombstone. But the shootout was one of many that cemented the reputation of this six-chamber gun that saw more than 20 years service with the United States Army and became the iconic revolver of the West.
THE PREDECESSORS
To trace the story of the Colt 45, you've got to go back 45 years before the O.K. Corral to when Samuel Colt patented his first percussion revolver design in February 1836. Colt plugged away on wooden models and technical drawings until Baltimore gunsmith John Pearson forged a working prototype. Colt soon set up the Patent Arms Company in Paterson, New Jersey, a town named after Colt's first production revolver, "The Paterson."
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Samuel Colt
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Cool. I like Krags, but they are about the most confusing collectible out there. You have originals, later converted and sporterized ones of various provenance. With Wild Bunch shooting at SASS, Krags can be shot at long range but have to use the orignal 220 grain lead round nose loadings. (no jacketed as I understand it)
Rainy day at the range, had a registered match, but only 6 shooters (more tomorrow if it drys out), I shot my Benelli Cordoba because of the weather.
Wow..... gotta get my butt over there this coming spring to SHOOT ..... Wild Bunch huh ? Sounds cool ....1911, 1897 and a Krag in 30 army ? .... will join SASS and start practicing this winter. Yeah gramps carbine has been tapped with a very old pencil thin M3 weaver. Know anyone that restores scopes of that vintage ? It works well but it rode a lot of fence around Gunnison, Ouray and Montrose.
Funny you should post this. I just bought a Uberti 1873 cattleman. .357 magnum to be compatible with my other revolvers.
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