1836 Patterson Colt: .28 .31 and .36 Cal. The first production repeating firearm in the world (that worked as advertised). For more than 500 years the single shot and multi shot muzzle loader had dominated, then Sam Colt produced the Patterson and took 'em out a whole new door. For the first time a man with a single shot rifle and a brace of Colt revolvers could put 21 aimed shots down range as fast as he could cock and aim. Just bear in mind that until the mid 1850's revolvers were rare, expensive and fragile. The military(anybody's) didn't use them until the advent of the "Walker" and "Dragoon" Colts of the late 1840's and even then the single shot "horse pistol" was the commonly issued military sidearm until just before the American Civil War....See what happens when you get me started on "black powder" (or guns in general) But if you want to go on about "front stuffers I have owned dozens and currently own, as my wife put it. "You have HOW many in the safe"? ----Ray
I own, at last count 30 or so BP firearms and a dozen "modern" (breach loading , metallic cart. repeating or semi-auto). At one point (BC. "before cancer") I had a respectable collection started but had to sell most of it to help pay off the doctor bills. I still have some of my favorites, The NM M-1 Garand. My Russian semi-auto AK. My SAA .45 LC the 1911A1 a 1903Mk1 My custom built flint locks and a few "others". But most of it went to pay of my 60000 USD bill (insurance covered the other 2.5 million, If I had been under Obamacare back then I'd be dead) I had the "Rolls Royce" plan the Turd in the Whitehouse hated so much. They dropped us 12 days after Obamacare took effect. Thank God my wife is a "Doc" and still gets a "gold plan" thru her work. But Yeh I have a lot of front stuffers. My brothers have more of them than me---Ray
The first is definitely a Paterson (named for the city in Jersey where Sam set up his first factory; too bad there weren't a few of those at the Alamo) and the second is a Walker, named for Capt Sam Walker of the Texas Rangers, who saved the Colt company with their business.
In the Mexican War, US Army types didn't have a lot of use for the Rangers (often described as "a dirty shirt and a five-shooter"), but they saw the potential in those five-shooters.
NO edutcher. That second pistol IS NOT a Walker Colt. That is an original Patterson.(no trigger guard-retractable trigger) The first photo is a reproduction. The Walker M-1848 was the first Colt six shooter and the largest production hand gun Colt ever made. Even by todays standards the Walker was a brute , firing a 230 grain .454 conical soft lead bullet stuffed on top of 60 grains of three "F" black powder.(they had the very bad habit of blowing up when fully charged) By contrast the Patterson was a "five shooter" , small cal. (.28 .31. or .36)revolver with a light (15 - 18 grains of "pistol powder fine") charge of BP. OH and Walkers weigh a hair over five pounds, slightly more than twice the size of the Patterson---Ray
1836 Patterson Colt: .28 .31 and .36 Cal. The first production repeating firearm in the world (that worked as advertised). For more than 500 years the single shot and multi shot muzzle loader had dominated, then Sam Colt produced the Patterson and took 'em out a whole new door. For the first time a man with a single shot rifle and a brace of Colt revolvers could put 21 aimed shots down range as fast as he could cock and aim. Just bear in mind that until the mid 1850's revolvers were rare, expensive and fragile. The military(anybody's) didn't use them until the advent of the "Walker" and "Dragoon" Colts of the late 1840's and even then the single shot "horse pistol" was the commonly issued military sidearm until just before the American Civil War....See what happens when you get me started on "black powder" (or guns in general) But if you want to go on about "front stuffers I have owned dozens and currently own, as my wife put it. "You have HOW many in the safe"? ----Ray
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray, had a feeling you would chime in... So HOW many? lol ;-)
ReplyDeleteI own, at last count 30 or so BP firearms and a dozen "modern" (breach loading , metallic cart. repeating or semi-auto). At one point (BC. "before cancer") I had a respectable collection started but had to sell most of it to help pay off the doctor bills. I still have some of my favorites, The NM M-1 Garand. My Russian semi-auto AK. My SAA .45 LC the 1911A1 a 1903Mk1 My custom built flint locks and a few "others". But most of it went to pay of my 60000 USD bill (insurance covered the other 2.5 million, If I had been under Obamacare back then I'd be dead) I had the "Rolls Royce" plan the Turd in the Whitehouse hated so much. They dropped us 12 days after Obamacare took effect. Thank God my wife is a "Doc" and still gets a "gold plan" thru her work. But Yeh I have a lot of front stuffers. My brothers have more of them than me---Ray
ReplyDeleteThe first is definitely a Paterson (named for the city in Jersey where Sam set up his first factory; too bad there weren't a few of those at the Alamo) and the second is a Walker, named for Capt Sam Walker of the Texas Rangers, who saved the Colt company with their business.
ReplyDeleteIn the Mexican War, US Army types didn't have a lot of use for the Rangers (often described as "a dirty shirt and a five-shooter"), but they saw the potential in those five-shooters.
NO edutcher. That second pistol IS NOT a Walker Colt. That is an original Patterson.(no trigger guard-retractable trigger) The first photo is a reproduction. The Walker M-1848 was the first Colt six shooter and the largest production hand gun Colt ever made. Even by todays standards the Walker was a brute , firing a 230 grain .454 conical soft lead bullet stuffed on top of 60 grains of three "F" black powder.(they had the very bad habit of blowing up when fully charged) By contrast the Patterson was a "five shooter" , small cal. (.28 .31. or .36)revolver with a light (15 - 18 grains of "pistol powder fine") charge of BP. OH and Walkers weigh a hair over five pounds, slightly more than twice the size of the Patterson---Ray
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