45 caliber as America’s favorite pistol cartridge. It was a very potent cartridge at the time and helped establish the. 45 Colt, which was a new round to go with the new revolver. The Colt SAA purchased by the government featured a 7.5-inch barrel and was chambered in. The service revolver trials of 1872 held by the military showed the new Colt design a rugged and reliable revolver and the Single Action Army (SAA) was adopted by the United States government and put into service in 1873.
While Colt waited for the patent to expire-the United States government actually denied Rollin an extension of his patent-their engineers who had created the conversion revolvers-William Mason and Charles Richards, worked on a totally new revolver design with the endgame being a United States government contract. Colt, the company, did not want to pay royalties to their competitor, so they modified old percussion revolver designs to accept metallic cartridges and called these conversion revolvers. The patent was in the name of Rollin White. Smith & Wesson held the rights to produce revolvers with a bored through cylinder which were capable of accepting metallic cartridges. In the late 1800s the cutting edge high-tech weapon development was the metallic cartridge. It was a well-known brand and still ranks as one of the more recognizable brands in the world. Colt was the consummate marketer and was quick to put a Colt revolver in the hands of people who held sway over the public’s perception as well as government coffers everyone from sultans to sheriffs received gifts of revolvers from Colt. He had seen the tremendous success of his Walker revolver evolve into the success of 1852 Navy revolver and others. Samuel Colt was long in the cemetery when the 1873 first appeared. When debuted it was innovative, and today it is a classic. This is what makes this revolver so significant today though it was introduced in the late nineteenth century. Deep down all Americans have a bit of cowboy or cowgirl in them. This legendary gunfight, like the Colt SAA, is part of the American fabric-as American as baseball, canned beer, pickup trucks, and apple pie. Today the gunfight is replayed every day show times are held at noon, 2, and 3:30 p.m. It is not known if this Colt was used in the infamous gunfight. A Colt SAA owned by Wyatt was auctioned in 2014 and fetched $225,000. Pried from Billy’s still warm dead hand was a Colt Single Action Army (SAA). Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were killed. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, two shots were fired. When the two groups met at about 3:00 p.m. Virgil Earp, a Deputy US Marshal, decided to disarm the cowboys to keep the peace. The cowboys were carrying firearms, but a city ordinance prohibited possession of weapons in town. Threats were made and there were pistol whippings the morning of the gunfight. Their names were Billy Clanton and brothers Tom and Frank McLaury. The outlaws were cowboys who smuggled cattle and stole horses-rustlers by any other name. Doc Holliday was with the Earps that day, and Holliday was known more as a gambler than a dentist. They were also lawmen in towns that sprung up in the west that are best described as in between the edge of civilization and pure wilderness. The lawmen were of course the Earp brothers-Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan-who made a living running saloons and gaming tables among other business endeavors. As years passed facts surrounding the gunfight have taken on a subjective patina. On one side were the outlaws and on the other the lawmen. The fight was between two groups of men who detested each other. The core of the gunfight was keeping the peace, and the “Peacemaker” was one of the common names used for the Colt Model P. Hollywood and dime novels would have us believe there was a meeting at high noon white hat heroes against black hat villains. It really happened off Fremont Street in an alley adjacent to an open lot that abutted the rear of the corral.
Corral never actually occurred at the Old Kindersley Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
#Colt saa 7.5 inch barrel serial
Photographs of cowboys from the Old West proudly showing off their Colt hardware.Ĭolt Single Action Army, serial No 5773 7th Cavalry issued.
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