It was an iron-framed, single-action six-shooter with a spur trigger. 2 remained unchanged during its 10 years of production. 2 Army belt revolver, as it was officially designated.Īside from minor technical improvements, the Model No. It wasn’t until 1861 that the company was able to roll out its first large-caliber cartridge revolver-the. What’s more, the cartridge cases had a tendency to swell or split, jamming the revolver. Smith & Wesson’s little seven-shot Model No. 22-caliber cartridge revolvers at its factory in Springfield, Mass. So the company sold its interests in what became the Winchester rifle, and in 1857 it began producing.
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The purchase meant that only Smith & Wesson could produce cartridge revolvers in the United States until White’s license expired in 1869. patents to produce revolvers with bored-through cylinder chambers to handle the newfangled cartridges, but in 1856 he sold his patent rights to Smith & Wesson after Sam Colt turned him down. Colt gunsmith Rollin White was awarded exclusive U.S. 41-caliber cartridges and the lever-action repeating handguns that fired them. Smith & Wesson’s contribution was development of unique. In the 1850s, the firearms industry in the United States was trying to perfect self-contained breechloading cartridges to replace the separate components of cap-and-ball muzzle-loading firearms. Their company, Smith & Wesson, is well known today less known are the roles they played in developing the copper self-primed cartridge and launching Winchester.” They were to found not only two gunmaking firms of lasting fame, but the metallic cartridge industry as well. Edwards said in his 1962 book Civil War Guns, “had as principal assets Horace Smith’s improvement of the French Flobert metallic cartridge…. 1 just didn’t have enough firepower to suit most shooters.Īlthough Colt revolvers were the most commonly used handguns during the Civil War and in the Old West, fledgling gunsmiths Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson were in some ways more accomplished innovators than Samuel Colt.
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