crockett said:Just how much of a "pass" was it? It seems the ground isn't that hilly but I wasn't in the exact location.
That's kinda where I'm at with it. Neat to have but I wouldn't want to use it much.Zonie said:I've always kinda wanted to own a Paterson but the prices are always high enough that I can't force myself to buy one.
If I did buy one, I doubt that I would shoot it more than one cylinder full. Then, after cleaning it, it would hang on the wall for looking at.
Actually there are flintlock revolver pistols (and some long guns) that were made in England and France long before Sam Colt was even born - the whole shipboard story is just that a story at best, albeit he may have seen the rvolvers while in England...Several books on English arms will include these early revolvers...Sam mainly was a good salesman which led to the popularity of the Colt revolver in all it's various permutations...Zonie said:There is no question that the idea of a revolver was being worked on in England and in France at the time.
There is no way of knowing who Colt talked to overseas or what he might have seen.
One thing is for certain though.
His Paterson revolver was the first production gun sold in moderately large quantities in the US and sit the stage for his later thriving business.
crockett said:Colt was on board a ship and all the sailors grabbed a short stout stick that got stuck into an opening in the turn-table (term/sic?) that rotated to pull up the anchor
crockett said:Well this is out of my area of knowledge but I thought the idea of a revolver had been around for some time but none of them worked very well. Colt was on board a ship and all the sailors grabbed a short stout stick that got stuck into an opening in the turn-table (term/sic?) that rotated to pull up the anchor and Colt saw that the thing could be applied to a pistol- sort of the hand on a pistol that rotates the cylinder. I think that was the part of the revolver's evolution he developed.
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