The Colt Single Action Army held many names over the years ... and most famously, the Peacemaker. There was no peace that October day in Tombstone. But the shootout was one of many that cemented ...

But there is no doubt that the one gun that has defined Colt for some 144 years is the Model 1873 Single Action Army (SAA) revolver, a.k.a Model P or Peacemaker. Twice the company has tried to ...

Yes, Third Generation Single Action Army revolvers are still being ... Interestingly, in 1880, the price for a new Colt Peacemaker was $16.50, which was about equal to a week’s pay back then ...

Considering the breadth of firearms and other weapons curated throughout American history, few inventions left as profound a mark as the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Introduced in 1873 and ...

Based on over thirty years of experience, a gun expert lists five top revolvers. -The Smith & Wesson Model 19/66 (.357 Magnum ...

The popularity of the Single Action Army in postwar westerns caused Colt to bring the revolver back in 1955, selling it for $125 each. Older nineteenth-century Model 1873s and Peacemakers are ...

Also known as the Single Action Army, the M1873, and the Colt .45, the Peacemaker was the most wildly successful metallic-cartridge-firing handgun of its day. Together with the Smith & Wesson ...

In the end, the Colt Peacemaker reigned supreme ... Between 1873 and 1940, Colt produced 357,859 Single Action Army revolvers. But why did the Colt win so handily? If you look at it by the ...

Is it the Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle? Or the Colt .45-caliber “Peacemaker” single-action Army revolver? Gun folks mostly agree, the Colt was the revolver handgun that won the West ...

a good example of this case can be made by tracing the price of "The Gun that Won the West," the Colt Single-action Army revolver. The venerable Peacemaker turns out to be a better gauge of ...

The popularity of the Single Action Army in postwar westerns caused Colt to bring the revolver back in 1955, selling it for $125 each. Older nineteenth century Model 1873s and Peacemakers are ...

When we look back at that era of firearms — the time when cartridges became king and old cap-and-ball revolvers were being converted to fire brass — we think of the Colt Single Action Army, the ...