No firearm is more easily recognizable than the 1873 Colt Single Action Army Revolver, but the famed weapon is just one of hundreds of models of single actions revolvers that have been used in battles across the continent. Packed with photos and facts about revolvers from 1850 to today, this guide is a must-have for every gun enthusiast.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781635616910
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
Publication Date: 12-28-2018
Pages: 338
Product Dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.06(d)
About the Author
John Taffin has been a handgun writer for the past 50+ years and a staff writer for the American Handgunner and Guns for the past 36+ years assigned to do feature articles as well as regular columns, "Taffin Tests", "The Sixgunner", "Handloading", and "Campfire Tales". He has also contributed regular columns and features to Shoot!Magazine, The Freedom Arms Collectors Journal, and Handgun Hunters International as well as the Digest Annuals from Krause Publications. His main interests are big bore sixguns, lever action rifles, and single-shot rifles and pistols, and he has hunted extensively with handguns in America and Africa. Taffin is also the founder, 1986, and first chairman of The Shootists and past chairman of the Outstanding American Handgunner Awards Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Handgun Hunters Chapter of SCI, and is a NRA Life Member. He considers only five things in this life to be important, namely, Faith, Family, Friends, Firearms, and most assuredly Freedom.Author of eight books and more than 2,000 articles, Taffin and his wife Dot have three children and 14 grandchildren and reside in Idaho. The kids are all grown-up and on their own, however, Taffin's constant companions during his writing chores are Chloe, a Pomeranian, and Molly, a Shih Tzu, who also serve as doorbells and watchdogs. He still misses his two Malamutes, Red and Wolf.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction—Single Action: The Perfect Sixgun?
PART I: THE FIRST SINGLE ACTION SIXGUNS
In The Beginning
The S&W Models #1, #2, and #3
The Smith & Wesson Schofield
The Remington “Top-Straps”
The Colt Cartridge Conversions
The Colt Single Action Army First Generation
The Colt Bisley Model and Flat-Top Targets
PART II: ONE MAN'S INFLUENCE
The Single Action Sixguns of Elmer Keith
The Texas Longhorn Arms Improved Number Five
The Texas Longhorn Arms Flat-Top Target and South Texas Army
PART III: THE POST WAR SINGLE ACTIONS
The Colt Single Action Army Second Generation
The Colt Single Action Army Third Generation
The Colt New Frontier
The Great Western Single Action
United States Firearms Single Actions
PART IV: THE MODERNIZATION OF THE SINGLE ACTION SIXGUN