The Model 1878 Colt Was a Double Action That Saw Limited Action in the Wild West

This revolver is often regarded as the ‘black sheep’ of old Colts. When Sam Colt invented the first American revolver that worked when it was supposed to, one of the keys to its success was that its single-action, cap-and-ball mechanism had only four moving parts. Although Colt had experimented with double-action (i.e., self-cocking) revolvers, he …

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