Eventually, the Army phased out the Schofield revolvers and went with the SAA across the board. Then, it also went back to the .45 Colt ammo until it was replaced by the underpowered .38 Long Colt in ...

First introduced in 1873, the Colt Single Action Army has officially been around for 150 years. In that time, it has become ...

Colt's "New Lightning Magazine Rifle," so called to distinguish it from the company's previous double-action revolver of the ...

45 Colt cartridge. This very powerful round started as a breech-loader in revolvers and became a standard-issue sidearm for the U.S. Army, earning its stripes during the Indian Wars and in the ...

1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use. 1830 - The back action lock appears. 1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.

The judge in the trial of Colt Gray, the teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School, has ordered his ...

When 14-year-old Colt Gray rode the bus to his Georgia high school on the morning of Sept. 4, he had a long gun hidden in a poster board that looked like a school project, surveillance video ...

People know about the Smith & Wesson Schofield revolver ... became king and old cap-and-ball revolvers were being converted to fire brass — we think of the Colt Single Action Army, the legendary ...