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.44-40 Winchester: The Cartridge That Armed the Frontier

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The dual-platform logistics angle on this cartridge doesn't get enough credit from modern shooters who think of it as a curiosity or a cowboy action toy. What the cartridge did that no other round had managed so cleanly was collapse the difference between rifle and handgun ammunition. When Colt chambered its Single Action Army revolver in .44-40, a man on the frontier could carry one cartridge and feed both guns from the same belt. Think about what that actually meant in practice — not as a...

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.44-40 Winchester: The Cartridge That Armed the Frontier

The .44-40 Winchester — formally designated .44 WCF (Winchester Center Fire) and sometimes called .44 Winchester or .44 Largo in Spanish-speaking markets — is a .44-caliber centerfire metallic cartridge introduced in 1873 by the Winchester Repeating

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