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Colt Walker Revolver (1847)

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:39.905Z

Ran across some Walker Colt history worth talking through. At 4.5 pounds and 15.5 inches, this thing makes a full-size 1911 feel like a pocket pistol — and somebody actually carried two of them on horseback into combat. "Without your pistols we could not have had the confidence to have undertaken such daring adventures... with improvements I think they can be rendered the most perfect weapon in the world for light mounted troops." Walker wasn't just writing a marketing blurb here — he was a...

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Colt Walker Revolver (1847)

The Colt Walker—sometimes called the Walker Colt—is a single-action, six-shot black powder revolver chambered in .44 caliber, produced in 1847 from a design jointly credited to American firearms inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862) and Texas Ranger Capta

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