In 1873, Samuel Colt’s Colt Patent Firearms, looking to reinvent the way it produced revolvers, made a gun: the Colt Single-Action Army. It would go on to become the standard-issue sidearm for ...
CM Punk and Colt Cabana had been friends for years before their big falling out, when they were just rookies in the wrestling industry, working their way up to superstardom. Ever since, there has ...
As each season in Colt McCoy’s NFL career passed, he’d spend much of the offseason thinking about life after football. For the final 10 of his 12 total seasons in the league, the former ...
Single Action Army (SAA), Model P, Peacemaker—whatever you want to call it—the revolver introduced by Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in 1873 has one of the most recognizable ...
In 1875, the base price of a .44-40 1873 Winchester rifle was $40 and an 1873 Colt or 1875 Remington revolver $18. The Navy Remington was only $12, and .38 ammunition was substantially cheaper ...
This is a Winchester Model 1873, 22 short caliber. made in 1880s and left in a leaky barn for past 50 years. I got this rifle at a garage sale for $25. I did research and realized I found a very ...
The firearms historian Hal Herring has described the Colt Single Action Army Revolver, produced from 1873 on, as ‘arguably the most successful handgun ever made … simple, strong and reliable beyond ...