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Samuel Colt was a marketing genius and inventor, but he made a serious blunder as it related to cartridge-firing pistols. The Colt percussion revolver was considered by many to be the best possible gun during Hickok’s life. The Richards/Mason Colt was probably the first firearm to use a floating firing pin. There are multiple legends of the guns Hickok used, but the idea of him upgrading to cartridge-loading guns from cap-and-ball guns made sense to me. 38-caliber cartridges until the time of his death. 36-caliber revolvers converted from percussion to accept either rimfire or center-fire metallic. In 1875 he was reported to be carrying two Colt.
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36-caliber Colt Navy revolvers from 1861 through the time he joined Buffalo Bill’s Combination theater troupe in September 1873. During our time, the defensive and concealable defensive pistol has evolved from a five-shot revolver to a lightweight striker-fired pistol with a capacity of 10 to 12 shots.Īccording to Joseph Rosa, Hickok carried a pair of.
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Perhaps the most famous person to ever reside in Deadwood, South Dakota, was Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876).ĭuring a relatively short period, the defensive pistol evolved from a weather sensitive, unreliable flintlock single-shot to a multiple-shot, cartridge-firing revolver-a giant leap in technology.