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The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun.It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as the standard-issued revolver of the U.S. Army from 1873 to 1892.
The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely fictionalized 1931 biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. According to Lake, the dime novelist Ned Buntline commissioned the production of five Buntline Specials. Lake described them as ...
1955-2005 (First generation) 2020-present (Second generation) Colt Single Action Army: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.45 Colt.44-40 WCF.38-40 WCF.32-20 WCF.38 Long Colt.22 LR.38 Special.357 Magnum.44 Special.45 ACP: 6 United States: 1873–1941 1956–1974 1976–1982 1994–present Colt Trooper
Colt 1851 Navy Revolver; Colt Army Model 1860; Colt Buntline; Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt House Revolver; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver; Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top; Colt New Line; Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver; Colt Paterson; Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers; Colt Single Action Army; Colt Walker
The Great Western Arms Company (GWA) was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1953 to produce an American-made copy of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Colt had discontinued this model in 1940. The Great Western revolver was sold by mail order in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was used in many Western movies and television shows.
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Colt had been criticized for this high price, and by 1865 the revolver was reduced to $14.50 ($289.00 in 2023). The Colt "Army" revolver is to be distinguished from the Colt "Navy" revolver of which there were two models, the octagonal barrel Model 1851 Navy, and the round-barreled Model 1861 Navy , both Navy models being in the smaller .36 ...