Colt Single Action Army Wikipedia. Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Transferring Dealer Townsville Guns and Archery Shop. Advertising date 09222017. Private Ad. This flintlock musket appears to be an early 19th Century British or American trade gun. The government, private companies, and others frequently traded. Second Generation Colt Single Action Army. Type. Revolver. Place of origin. United States. Service history. In service. 18. 731. Artillery Model 1. Used by. United States. Wars. American Indian Wars,SpanishAmerican War,PhilippineAmerican War,Mexican Revolution. Range wars. Production history. Designer. William Mason and Charles Brinckerhoff Richards. Designed. 18. 72. DSCN0002-thumb.jpg' alt='Colt Black Powder Revolver Serial Numbers' title='Colt Black Powder Revolver Serial Numbers' />Manufacturer. Colts Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company. Produced. 18. 731. Specifications. Weight. Length. 11 2. 79 mm, with 5 barrel 1. Cartridge. 4. 5 Colt,. WCF,. 3. 8 4. 0 WCF,. WCF,. 3. 8 Colt and many others, including. LR,. 3. 8 Special,. Magnum and. 4. 4 Special. Action. Single action revolver. Feed system. 6 shot Cylinder. The Colt Single Action Army, also known as the Single Action Army, SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, M1. Colt. 4. 5 is a single actionrevolver with a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges. It was designed for the U. S. government service revolver trials of 1. Colts Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company  todays Colts Manufacturing Company  and was adopted as the standard military service revolver until 1. The Colt SAA has been offered in over 3. Its overall appearance has remained consistent since 1. Colt has discontinued its production twice, but brought it back due to popular demand. The revolver was popular with ranchers, lawmen, and outlaws alike, but as of the early 2. Its design has influenced the production of numerous other models from other companies. The Colt SAA Peacemaker revolver is a famous piece of Americana known as The Gun That Won the West. The original length of the barrel, issued to the U. S. Cavalry, was 7 12 inches with an overall length of 1. HistoryeditBound by the Rollin White patent 1. April 3, 1. 85. 5 and not wanting to pay a royalty fee to Smith Wesson, Colt could not begin development of bored through revolver cylinders for metallic cartridge use until April 4, 1. For the design, Colt turned to two of its best engineers William Mason and Charles Brinckerhoff Richards who had developed a number of revolvers and black powder conversions for the company. Their effort was designed for the United States government service revolver trials of 1. Colts Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company and adopted as the standard military service revolver. Production began in 1. Single Action Army model 1. New Model Army Metallic Cartridge Revolving Pistol. The very first production Single Action Army, serial number 1, thought lost for many years after its production, was found in a barn in Nashua, New Hampshire in the early 1. It was chambered in. Colt, a centerfire design containing charges of up to 4. Relative to period cartridges and most later handgun rounds, it was quite powerful in its full loading. The Colt Single Action Army revolver, along with the 1. Smith Wesson Model 3 Schofield revolver, replaced the Colt 1. Army Percussion revolver. The Colt quickly gained favor over the S W and remained the primary US military sidearm until 1. Long Colt caliber Colt Model 1. By the end of 1. 87. Colt Single Action Army revolvers chambered for the. Colt cartridge had entered service and the remaining revolvers were sold in the civilian market. The Colt. American history, known as The Gun That Won the West. First generation 1. The Single Action Army became available in standard barrel lengths of 4 inch, 5 inch, as well as the Cavalry standard, original 7 inch. The shorter barrelled revolvers are sometimes called the Civilian or Gunfighter model 4 inch and the Artillery Model 5 inch. There was also a variant with a sub 4 inch barrel, without an ejector rod, unofficially called the Sheriffs Model, Bankers Special, or Storekeeper. From 1. 87. 5 until 1. Colt marketed a single action revolver in. Henry caliber in a separate number range from no. A Flattop Target Model was listed in Colts catalogs from 1. Colt manufactured 9. The front sight consisted of a base with an interchangeable blade. In 1. 89. 6, at serial number 1. Colt Single Action was certified for use with smokeless powder. In 1. 92. 0, larger, highly visible sights replaced the original thin blade and notch. The revolvers remained essentially unchanged from that point until cessation of manufacture at the beginning of World War II. From 1. 87. 3 through 1. World War II, the so called Pre War, Post War model, production of the Colt Single Action Army reached 3. This is identified as the Pre War or First Generation of the model. Calibers, at least thirty in all, ranged from. Eley, with approximately half, or 1. Bisley and Flat Top Target variations, chambered for. Colt. The next most prevalent were the. Winchester Center fire WCF at 7. WCF at 5. 0,5. 20 3. Winchester 3. 2 WCF at 4. Colt at 1. 9,6. 76. Military useedit. Colt Single Action Army, serial No 5. Cavalry issued. All original, good condition, U. S. Cavalry and Artillery Single Action Armies those produced between 1. Especially valuable, often going for well over 1. OWA Orville Wood Ainsworth and the rare Henry Nettleton inspected Single Action Army Colts. The OWA Colt refers to the earliest issued Single Action Army guns, which were inspected by Orville W. Ainsworth. Ainsworth was the ordnance sub inspector at the Colt factory for the first 1. Oct. 1. 87. 3 to Nov. Single Action Armys production. It was Ainsworth who inspected the Colts used by Col. G. A. Custers 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The number range of possible Little Bighorn Colts is 4. Henry Nettleton was the U. S. Principal Sub inspector in 1. Springfield Armory. Second only to the OWA Colts, Nettleton Colts are prized by serious collectors. Both the Nettleton and OWA Colts have the cartouche OWA or HN on the left side of the wood grip. By the mid 1. 87. Army had purchased a significant number of Smith Wesson Schofield revolvers chambering a shorter. Logistical problems arose because the ammunition was not interchangeable. The Colt revolvers would accept the shorter round, but not vice versa. For a time, the Government stopped orders for the longer Colt cartridge and used the Smith Wesson round exclusively. The Schofield was soon retired and sold to the civil market. The largest group of U. S. Colt Cavalry revolvers was inspected by David F. Clark, his D. F. C. During 1. 89. 3, the. U. S. Colt Single Action Army revolver was retired by the Cavalry and replaced by the. Colt Model 1. 89. Double Action Army revolver. The. 4. 5 Single Action Army revolver was still standard issue to the Infantry, Artillery and other branches of the U. S. Army. In 1. 89. U. S. federal government returned 2. SAA revolvers to Colts to be refurbished 8. New York Militia with the 7 inch barrel and 1,2. In 1. 89. 8, 1. 4 9. SAA revolvers were altered the same way by Springfield Armory. The original records of the War Department do refer to these revolvers with the shortened barrel as the Altered Revolver. The name Artillery is actually a misnomer, which Sapp speculates may have originated because the Light Artillery happened to have the first units armed with the altered revolver. Colt Model 1. 87. U. S. Artillery Model. 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