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military from 1917 to 1919, and for many years after.

S&W’s Model 1917 was to become one of the most successful and respected sidearms of the U.S. 45 ACP rounds as the Model 1911 Colt semi-automatic.

S&W (and Colt’s) made one final breakthrough in revolver design by the time of the Great War, Hand Ejector revolvers that could chamber the same. The world was at war, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show came to an end, and semi-automatic pistols were being used not only by the military but by what remained of the old western lawmen who had survived into the new century. The Old West was in its last throes by 1917. The cartridges fit the chambers, but were too small around the rim to engage the ejector and thus the need for the full moon clip capturing the rims of all six cartridges). 45 ACP rounds in a full moon clip (to allow ejecting the rimless cartridges from the cylinder. However, other semi-auto handguns were also being carried in the service, and during WWI, with shortages of handguns, both Colt and Smith & Wesson developed the Model 1917 revolver that could use. Available chamberings included cartridges grounded in the Old West such as. The model was so successful it remained in production through 1944, a period spanning nearly half a century and a production total in excess of 356,000 guns. military sidearm replacing the majority of revolvers then in use.Ĭolt’s New Service revolvers were the largest swing out cylinder models of the late 1890s and early 20th century. Two years later the Colt Model 1911 was adopted as the standard issue U.S. 38 caliber double action revolvers being under powered for a military sidearm, Colt developed the New Service in 1909 chambered for a. 38 caliber Models in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1901, and with the Model 1905 issued to the Marine Corps. 41 calibers and in 1892 for the Army with a series of smaller caliber (.38 Long Colt) revolvers beginning with the Model 1892. military adopted the Colt Model 1911 as its standard issue sidearm prior to WWI and the government had, in fact, begun to replace the Peacemaker back in 1889 for the U.S.

It would seem logical that the Colt Peacemaker, a gun developed in 1872 and made famous on the American Frontier, and the British Webley MK VI, developed in 1915 and used by British forces in WWI and WWII, would not have crossed paths in combat. Webley MK VI Part 1 The gun test that never happened By Dennis Adler