WI Webley & Scott double action revolvers replaced Colt

bard32

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The title says it best. Britain had double action revolvers. The United States
Army had Colt Model 1848 Walker Dragoons, and later, Model 1860 single action revolvers. Webley & Scott was one of many British double action revolvers used by the South during the Civil War. The United States also had a
few double action revolvers: Remington, Starr, and Pettingill, to name three.
However, the majority of its revolvers were single action revolvers.
 

Japhy

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As usual with your posts Bards I read this and am left wondering

WHAT? What are you talking about?
 

bard32

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As usual with your posts Bards I read this and am left wondering

WHAT? What are you talking about?

Simple. The Webley & Scott revolvers. Specifically, the Webley Longspur,
Britain's first modern revolver. It was built in 1853 and was handmade. It
couldn't compete with the mass produced revolvers like Adams and Deane
and Tranter.
 

Japhy

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Simple. The Webley & Scott revolvers. Specifically, the Webley Longspur,
Britain's first modern revolver. It was built in 1853 and was handmade. It
couldn't compete with the mass produced revolvers like Adams and Deane
and Tranter.

And WHAT Exactly do you want to do with that revolver?
 
uh... refresh my memory here... single action/double action... IIRC, one means that the gun fires by just pulling the trigger, and the other means that you have to first cock the pistol and then pull the trigger... which is which?
 
uh... refresh my memory here... single action/double action... IIRC, one means that the gun fires by just pulling the trigger,
= double action
and the other means that you have to first cock the pistol and then pull the trigger...
= single action.
The sterotypical pistol in a cowboy movie is a Colt SAA (Single Action Army). The sterotypical pistol in old police\dectective movies is a Smith and Wesson double action .38 special.
 
ah... thanks. Well, considering how pistols were not all that important in war (and still aren't, really), I don't think the adoption of it in the US widescale would have made all that much difference. In the ACW, the important weapons were the rifle and cannon... pistols were carried by officers, but they didn't cause all that many casualties... Confederate raiders (like Quantrill's gang) liked pistols because they shot faster than rifles, but having double action ones wouldn't have made them all that more dangerous...
 
I don't think that the U.S. would have ever adopted a a British made revolver, either. They might've adopted a domestically produced one. But again, I don't think it would've made much of a difference.
 
I'm not sure if the question is WI the US army adopts a double action revolver (not much changes IMHO) or WI the US buys a Brittish revolver (giving a early special relationship?)
 
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