Smith & Wesson’s Model No. 2 Was the First Large-Caliber Cartridge Revolver

The No. 1 just didn’t have enough firepower to suit most shooters. Although 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. The two men, as historian William B. Edwards …

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