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For whom that will attempt to infringe: - "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." - "Fill your hand you son of a bitch!" |
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The 1877 Colt Double Action Pistol
The Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company responded as quickly as it could, under the circumstances. The Model 1877 D.A. was Colt's first foray into the field of double action pistols, and appeared three years before Smith & Wesson produced their first double action gun. Originally called the New Double Action Self-Cocking Central Fire Six Shot Revolver, the Model 1877 was designed by their well-known employee, William Mason*, who also designed the famed Single Action Army Model of 1873. The Model 1877 Colt is similar in many respects to its single action predecessor. Unfortunately, the one important respect in which it differs from the SAA is its reliability--the 1877 D.A. is notorious for mechanical problems, so much so that most gunsmiths today will not work on them. David R. Chicoine says of them, "The internal mechanism Colt used in these is overly intricate, many of its critical components are as likely as not to break and these will often do so as frequently as the revolver's action is operated, and that includes non-firing use." In a letter to me he stated " they just aren't worth the amount of hand labor it takes to make them work right again." If you want to shoot such a gun, he recommends buying a Uberti -made Cimarron Lightning (although this is a single-action gun). He does not recommend shooting a collectable 1877 Model Colt. The 1877 D.A. pistol has a three-position hammer, just like the 1873 SAA, with safety, half-cock, and full cock notches. It likewise has a cylinder pin mounted through the center of the frame, a loading gate mounted on the frame, and a rod ejector mounted on the barrel. To the untrained eye it might look a lot like the famous peacemaker, except for its signal rear-offset "birds head" grip which gives it a very distinctive look (almost certainly in imitation of the Webley Bulldog's grips). The frame is somewhat smaller than the SAA, and the section of the frame in front of the trigger is pinched, as were the Webley Bulldog's. There are no locking notches on the outside of the cylinder- -instead, the locking notches are on the rear face. The 1877 D.A. was initially produced in .38 Colt (long or short), followed by the .41 Colt, and later still a few were made in .32 Colt
John Wesley Hardin was carrying a .38 Colt Lightning revolver with a 2 inch barrel the day he was killed. A .41 Colt D.A. was later found in his room. Pat Garret owned an engraved .41 Colt D.A. Billy the Kid is believed by many to have been in possession of a Colt D.A. when he died, though George Layman believes it may have been a Webley Bulldog.
* "William Mason was another of those who helped make the Colt Armory what it was. He was a modest, kindly man, little known outside of his immediate associates, but of a singular fertility in invention and almost unerring mechanical judgment. He learned his trade with the Remington Arms Company at Ilion, N.Y., and after a long association with them he was for sixteen years superintendent of the Colt Armory. In 1885 he became master mechanic of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, and held that position until his death in 1913. He had granted to him more than 125 patents, most of them in connection with arms and ammunition and tools for their manufacture, but they included many appliances for looms and weaving, steam pumps, and bridge work, and he assisted with the development of the Knowles steam pump and Knowles Looms." From English and American Tool Builders, by Joseph Wickham Roe, Yale University Press, New Haven: 1916. Pp. 173-174. |
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