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Learn More -- The Colt Revolver in the American West -- Continuing the Colt Tradition -- Forced to Adapt
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Forced to Adapt
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Greg Martin Colt Gallery
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Percussion firearms require the user to individually load the primer, powder charge, and bullets. The metallic cartridge, however, contains all of these elements in a single unit. To legally circumvent Smith & Wesson’s patent before it expired in 1869 and to use up obsolete parts, Colt utilized several methods to convert percussion revolvers to the metallic cartridge. In the American West, revolvers often were ingeniously converted in the field.
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