POTD: The 22 Rimfire Peacemaker – Colt’s Salvage Job

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a full size Single Action Army with a seven and a half inch barrel chambered in 22 rimfire. I know how that sounds. There is a real reason for it. Back in the mid 1870s Colt built a small run of Peacemakers in 44 Rimfire. On […] The p...

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POTD: The Colt Model 1855 Sporting Rifle – Mind Your Left Hand

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Colt’s first long gun and one of the more alarming ideas Hartford ever put into production. The Colt Model 1855 sporting rifle is a scaled up Root revolver. Side hammer, solid frame with a top strap, creeping loading lever and an oile...

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POTD: The Etchen Colt Detective Special – A Cop Gun in a Tuxedo

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a working cop gun that somebody put in a tuxedo. The Detective Special showed up in 1927 when Colt cut the Police Positive Special down to a two inch barrel. That was the whole idea. Six rounds of 38 that would ride under a coat all [&#8230...

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POTD: The Colt Match Target Woodsman – Picked by Fitz

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt hand picked by the most famous man the company ever put in front of the public. John Henry Fitzgerald, Fitz to everybody who knew him, was Colt’s roving expert from the early 1920s until he died in 1945. He ran the exhibition sh...

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Curious Relics #140: No Records – Remington Model 1875 Part III

Welcome, if you are a newcomer to this fun bi-weekly segment of AllOutdoor.com! The last two times around I covered the history and the variations of the Remington Model 1875. This time we are getting into dating, specifications, and the aftermarket situation, and I have been warning you for two ...

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POTD: Ed Browning 30-06 Prototype – The Other Browning Brother

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rifle from the Browning nobody talks about. Jonathan Edmund “Ed” Browning was John Moses Browning’s half brother and spent roughly fifty years as the model maker at the family shop in Ogden. Everybody knows JMB. Nobody kn...

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