In the mid-1850s, the newfangled self-contained cartridge was just becoming the New Hotness in shooting. While there was a lot of experimentation with cartridge designs and action plans, a fellow Walter Hunt had some pretty good ideas. Read about those ideas here.
Read MoreA profile of Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell.
Read MoreAnd so we conclude the saga of the sixgun with a look at the current state of affairs. What’s next for the revolver market? Who knows? But whatever it is, you know you’ll want one.
Read MoreThe twentieth century was aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention in the sixgun world. Read about that glow here!
Read MoreOur story continues as Smith & Wesson pushes into the world of new-fangled metallic cartridges. Meanwhile, Colt was fixing to blow everyone’s doors off.
Read MoreTurns out Sam Colt wasn’t the only guy interested in building sixguns. There was this Remington fellow up in New York, a guy named LeMat in Louisiana, and these two guys from Massachusetts named Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson. In the sixgun world in the late 1850s, some cages were fixin’ to get rattled.
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