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The Colt New Model revolving rifles were early repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1855 until 1864. The design was essentially similar to revolver type pistols, with a rotating cylinder that held five or six rounds in a variety of calibers from .36 to .64 inches. [1]
First manufactured in 1856, the side-hammer, cap-and-ball Colt Model 1855 rifle operated on similar principles to Col. Samuel Colt’s revolving handguns. In 1857, 100 Colt rifles were...
Samuel Colt in 1836 patented his revolving-breech loading, folding trigger handgun named the Colt Paterson. This revolver could deliver five shots in about as many seconds. After a series of...
Colt's "New Lightning Magazine Rifle," so called to distinguish it from the company's previous double-action revolver of the same name, was the first slide-action rifle to be sold in the United ...
As the American Civil War kicked off, the Union Army purchased over 4,000 Colt New Model Revolving Rifles. In service, they were loved and loathed. They offered a repeating rifle that could fire five or six shots quite rapidly, and the Union troops proved they could be effective.
The Colt first model ring lever rifle and Colt second model ring lever rifle are two early caplock revolving rifles that were produced by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company between 1837 and 1841.
While Colt’s investors had been anticipating a small pocket-model revolver to be introduced, young Sam dismayed his New York backers with a massive revolving rifle. The first gun put into production at Paterson was the No. 1 Ring Lever rifle.
I recently had a chance to take a .36 caliber Colt Model 1855 revolving rifle our to the range. It was pretty interesting to shoot, but unfortunately the video ended up rather sub-par and I...
The Colt New Model Revolving Rifle was chambered in .56 caliber, utilizing a conical-shaped bullet and a combustible paper cartridge. It had a nominal rate of fire of six rounds per minute, significantly higher than most other rifles of the period.
The Colt Special Musket was issued to state troops, and the Model 1855 Revolving Rifle saw service with both Union infantry and cavalry, as well as with Colonel Hiram Berdan's United States Sharp Shooters. Colt firearms have continued to play a significant role in America's history.