These native warriors were hard to stop with a. This lead to the rapid development of the New Service in larger calibers, though it is unclear that this had the desired effect. 38s that famously failed to stop charging warriors in the Philippines. The Navy was quick to adopt Colt’s new revolver, and the Army followed shortly after. Some Belgian gun makers were making swing-out cylinder double action revolvers as early as the 1860s, but Colt can certainly be credited for refining this into the revolver we recognize today. Many claim that the swing-out cylinder is Colt’s invention, but this is patently untrue. These established the template for the modern double-action revolver was we know it today, with the ability to be fired either double or single action and a swing-out cylinder with it’s own ejector.
In 1889 Colt jumped-started the new age of revolvers with their New Army/New Navy models.
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