Know Your Weapons: The Cap and Ball Revolvers Prior to the Peacemaker

Posted on 28 January 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

Prior to the Peacemaker

The Revolvers that ‘Really’ Won the West

Before the Colt Peacemaker? Before the Colt Peacemaker there was a whole boatload of other Colt single action revolvers. And in truth they had a lot more influence in the Old West than did the Peacemaker because the wildest and woolliest times had passed by the time Colt got around to developing the Single Action Army.

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