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Offline Krylandalian

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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2016, 08:55:35 PM »
Considering the technology at the time, historical goings on at the time, and and and,.  Seems the 1851 Navy takes it.
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #31 on: December 08, 2016, 02:59:30 PM »
Quote from: Krylandalian on December 05, 2016, 08:55:35 PM
Considering the technology at the time, historical goings on at the time, and and and,.  Seems the 1851 Navy takes it.

Why?
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #32 on: December 08, 2016, 03:25:19 PM »
If Colt would have made the 1851 in .44 cal. with a 5 inch barrel? Now that would have been the best of the C&B revolvers! IMO. It certainly could have been done by 1860.
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #33 on: December 08, 2016, 05:07:43 PM »
Quote from: dc7x64 on December 08, 2016, 03:25:19 PM
If Colt would have made the 1851 in .44 cal. with a 5 inch barrel? Now that would have been the best of the C&B revolvers! IMO. It certainly could have been done by 1860.

Why would they when they already had a belt size .44 with the 1860?
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #34 on: December 08, 2016, 05:51:36 PM »
A .40 may have been interesting.  Colt made some prototypes (or at least one) in that caliber on the Navy frame.
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #35 on: December 08, 2016, 07:05:51 PM »
Quote from: Hawg on December 08, 2016, 05:07:43 PM
Quote from: dc7x64 on December 08, 2016, 03:25:19 PM
If Colt would have made the 1851 in .44 cal. with a 5 inch barrel? Now that would have been the best of the C&B revolvers! IMO. It certainly could have been done by 1860.

Why would they when they already had a belt size .44 with the 1860?
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By the time the Army came out, the '51 Navy design was considered "obsolete", hence the later Navy with creeping loading lever, rounded/streamlined barrel, etc.
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #36 on: December 09, 2016, 03:28:20 PM »
Yes, but I live in 1862, and I want options. I have an 1851 model and I like the natural pointability, the grip frame, and the aesthetically more pleasing looks of the '51, but I also want more power and a shorter barrel. I am the customer, and the customer is never wrong!
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #37 on: December 09, 2016, 03:33:03 PM »
Quote from: dc7x64 on December 09, 2016, 03:28:20 PM
Yes, but I live in 1862, and I want options. I have an 1851 model and I like the natural pointability, the grip frame, and the aesthetically more pleasing looks of the '51, but I also want more power and a shorter barrel. I am the customer, and the customer is never wrong!

Buy a Remmy.... (7+"
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #38 on: December 09, 2016, 05:22:24 PM »
Quote from: dc7x64 on December 09, 2016, 03:28:20 PM
Yes, but I live in 1862, and I want options. I have an 1851 model and I like the natural pointability, the grip frame, and the aesthetically more pleasing looks of the '51, but I also want more power and a shorter barrel. I am the customer, and the customer is never wrong!

If you lived in 1862 you took what you could get. If you wanted a shorter barrel you took a hacksaw to something you gave two weeks wages for.
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Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« Reply #39 on: December 09, 2016, 06:40:01 PM »
Quote from: dc7x64 on December 09, 2016, 03:28:20 PM
the customer is never wrong!

The customer wasn't always right until 1909. (7+"
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