Part Two, Pick the best Civil War hand gun
- Thread starter TGC
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Oddly I have heard the polar opposite
, that civil war troops and Calvary would trade a handful of remington's for one open top colt.A./-sure a closed top is strong...but a very thick cylinder pin is as well
b./Cylinder swapping during battle is a myth,the remington could not do this as easy as shown on hollywood movies
c./The colt could have all 6 chambers loaded and was designed to as well, between each chamber was a little catch to firmly hold the hammer.
The Remington is a good arm but it does have many flaws, such as the sliding pin that holds the cylinder,it was easily damaged and lost. and the shooting profile on the arm is horrible.
A colt has one straight line from the back of the cylinder to the tip of the barrel making the aiming and shooting quite easy.
you will notice that later arms incorporate both the solid frame of the rem and the excellent aiming and shooting characteristics of the colt.
The remington is a good percussion arm,
but it is a fact that the best gunfighters at the time were using open top Colts well into the cartridge era in a variety of conversion styles.
The open top colt is a strong revolver, just because it doesnt flaut its strength all over dont count it out.
Colt put all the structure on the inside from the thick solid frame to the thick pin that holds the barrel.
The colt is a true shooters arm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdqabuM5v4w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3T23vH7u8
You can be sure, If I had to life in the west in those bygone days, I would have a slicked up colt on my side.
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Well, no matter which way you look at it, If both are manufactured properly "For example to Sam Colts standards
" You could shoot em both for more then 100 years and still have them work excellently.
Both the Colt and sometimes the remington have proven once again that
19th century arms were generally produced to a level unheard of today.
What a gunfighter picked doesn't matter much because there were a variety of reasons why a certain gun would have been chosen, the best being it was the most widely available.
Here's a non-hollywood video of the cylinder being swapped, looks pretty easy to me. You will also see the cylinder pin is bigger than most in use today so that theory is shot to hell too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3rj89cqQQ8&feature=related
If the open top frame was the best design why did Colt and everyone else abandon it in favour of a topstrap?
Here's a non-hollywood video of the cylinder being swapped, looks pretty easy to me. You will also see the cylinder pin is bigger than most in use today so that theory is shot to hell too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3rj89cqQQ8&feature=related
If the open top frame was the best design why did Colt and everyone else abandon it in favour of a topstrap?
BrotherRockeye
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That person swapping the cylinder is doing it with a unloaded un capped cylinder sitting on the floor and he still manages to bang the cylinder on the frame.
If your on horseback your just going to jam the empty gun back in your belt and pull a freshly loaded one, no man is going to be doing that in the heat of battle, where are you keeping this loaded and capped cylinder??
It would be safer and more efficient to just have a few loaded revolvers.
Hell it would be just as easy " dangerous and dumb" to swap a cylinder in a colt
And yes later on colt adopted a top strap in the venerable and beautiful 1873, but it had a much better overall design then the remington
And it was made to Colts unwavering standards.
If were just talking percussion civil war revolvers the colt is still the better arm in my opinion, though both are fine arms, the Colt is just more of a slick unit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtssP6BaCk&feature=related
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Agree to disagree??
I think we can all agree that anyway you look at it, We all love the old arms better then the cheap showyness of todays arms...
I still think the poll is biast with 3 colt open top patterns and only 1 remington pattern...You know remington had pocket and navy 36 cal models aswell..
Well, no matter which way you look at it, If both are manufactured properly "For example to Sam Colts standards
You could shoot em both for more then 100 years and still have them work excellently.
Both the Colt and sometimes the remington have proven once again that
19th century arms were generally produced to a level unheard of today.
I think we can all agree that anyway you look at it, We all love the old arms better then the cheap showyness of todays arms...
I still think the poll is biast with 3 colt open top patterns and only 1 remington pattern...You know remington had pocket and navy 36 cal models aswell..
Wait a min, i started this poll with 10 hand guns of the civil war, the ones here got the most votes, so i don't think its biast, its the vote that counts
also colt sold his gun for 25 a piece while rem sold his for 12 dollars a piece.
also colt sold his gun for 25 a piece while rem sold his for 12 dollars a piece.
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BrotherRockeye
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Well even if the last 8 voters all vote Colt, the rem will still be in the lead in part two, so might as well take it to the final and third poll. every one now move your vote to the final poll, were you will have one vote.
