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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers weight "0.7371".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers abstract "The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, NJ. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called \"Baby Patersons\" by collectors and were produced first in .24 to .31 calibers, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a \"step\" to the cylinder to increase diameter. The .31 caliber carried over into Samuel Colt's second venture in the arms trade in the form of the \"Baby Dragoon\"-a small revolver developed in 1847–48. The \"Baby Dragoon\" was in parallel development with Colt's other revolvers and, by 1850, it had evolved into the \"Colt's Revolving Pocket Pistol\" that collectors now name \"The Pocket Model of 1849\". It is a smaller brother of the more famous \"Colt's Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber\" introduced the same year and commonly designated by collectors as the \"1851 Navy Model\" (and which was a basically a larger, .36 caliber of the Pocket Model, \"belt pistol\" referring to a weapon sized to fit into a belt holster, as opposed to the saddle holsters generally called for by Colt's larger cavalry combat models). In 1855 Colt introduced another pocket percussion revolver, the Colt 1855 \"Sidehammer\", designed alongside engineer Elisha K. Root.The Pocket Model revolvers all have a traditional \"Colt-style\" frame, generally with brass grip straps and trigger guard, and a case-hardened steel frame. In appearance, the frames are almost identical to the larger 1851 Navy and .44 caliber 1860 Army Models, with the exception of being smaller, and so having a proportionately larger trigger guard. Since they appear so similar to the larger weapons, without an object nearby to give them scale, the Pocket Revolvers tend to give an impression of being larger than they actually are; it is difficult to fit all four fingers onto the slender grip, even for a person with average-sized hands. Except for by noting the relative size of the trigger guard to the frame, it is easy for a casual observer to mistake a .31 caliber Model 1849 for an 1851 Navy (un-rebated frame, slab-sided webbing around a regular pivoting loading lever, octagonal barrel, unfluted cylinder); indeed, the Model 1851 Navy was basically no more than a scaled -up 1849 Pocket Model. Likewise, the larger .36 caliber Pocket Police Models are virtually identical to the 1860 Army Model, with rebated frame and stepped cylinder (to accommodate a size up from .31 to .36, instead of .36 to .44 as with the Army Model), a graceful, flowing webbing surrounding a new style \"creeping\" loading lever, and a round barrel. The most obvious difference is that the Pocket Police had a fluted 5-shot cylinder, while most Army Models were unfluted, and held six shots. The reason for this close similarity is that all four guns were closely related, and followed similar paths of development; the original .31 caliber Model 1849 was scaled up to create the .36 caliber 1851 Navy Model. Later, the Navy Model was increased in bore size by rebating the frame and enlarging the cylinder, and became the 1860 Army Model. With the success of this project, the .31 caliber of the 1849 Model was similarly increased to .36, using the same method, creating the Pocket Police and Pocket Navy models.The Pocket Model came with and without attached loading levers and with barrel lengths from 3-6 inches; those without loading levers were loaded either with some handy dowel or equivalent tool, or by removing the cylinder from the frame and using the fixed cylinder pin (or \"arbor\") as a rammer). Those without loading levers are frequently called the \"Wells Fargo Model\" although Wells Fargo records show no .31 caliber revolvers ever purchased by that company. All variations included, it was the single largest selling of the Colt revolvers until well into the 20th century (ibid Wilson.) Civilian demand for the original .31 caliber revolver remained substantial even after introduction of the larger-bored .36 caliber Pocket Navy and Police Models, even right up until metallic cartridge revolvers entered production in the early 1870s (notably by Smith & Wesson).In 1860, the .36 caliber Police Pocket model was created, after lessons were learned from experimentation aimed at reducing the size of the .44 Colt Holster Pistols (i.e. large cavalry weapons), Colt took advantage of stronger mass-produced steel by rebating the frame of the Navy revolver to hold a larger-diameter 44/100-inch chambered cylinder, basically fitting the power of a large cavalry saddle holster-gun and fitting it into the .36 caliber Navy Model, a gun that could be carried in a belt holster. Previously, it wasn't thought that the smaller frame could handle the power of the .44 round, but the introduction of stronger metals made it possible. Learning the lessons from this, the Colt factory applied the same technology to the .31 caliber Model 1849 Pocket revolvers, using high-strength (for the time) steel for the frame, which allowed them to remove enough material to fit a larger-diameter .36 caliber cylinder which still had five shots (the alternative was to simply retain the original cylinder diameter, and create a 4-shot .36 caliber version. The stronger steels made this sacrifice unnecessary. Other changes including lightweight fluted cylinders, and a round barrel, to offset the added weight, and a \"creeping\" loading lever as used in the 1861 Army Model; the result was the \"Police Pocket Model of 1862\". The Pocket Navy was a version similarly up-sized to .36 caliber, but which retained the octagonal barrel and traditional loading lever of the earlier pocket mode. Between 1862 and 1873, Colt records document production of 19,000 of the Pocket Navies and over 20,000 Pocket Police revolvers. Relative to the .31 Pocket Revolvers, the period of manufacture was short and overall numbers were further limited by a fire at the Colt Factory in 1862 and War production concerns.".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers origin United_States.
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers weight "737.1".
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_Civil_War_weapons.
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Baby Dragoons".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colt Baby Dragoon".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colt Percussion Revolver".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colt Pocket Percussion".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colt Pocket".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colt Police".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers wikiPageWikiLinkText "M1849 Pocket Pistol".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers action "single-action".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers caliber "0.31".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers caption "Original Pocket Police and Pocket Model of 1849".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers designDate "Baby Dragoon: 1847".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers designDate "Pocket Model of 1849: 1850".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers designDate "Pocket Navy and Pocket Police: 1861".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers designer Samuel_Colt.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers feed "5".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers isRanged "yes".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers length "8.75".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers manufacturer Colts_Manufacturing_Company.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers name "Colt Pocket Models".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers number "325000.31".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers origin United_States.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers partLength "about 3- to 6-inches".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers productionDate "c. 1847–1873".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers range "25".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers sights "blade or conical pin front sight, hammer notch rear sight".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers type "Single-action revolver".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers velocity "7".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers weight "26.0".
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers subject Category:American_Civil_War_weapons.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers subject Category:Colt_revolvers.
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers type Device.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers type Weapon.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers type Colt.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers type Handgun.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers type Product.
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers comment "The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, NJ. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called \"Baby Patersons\" by collectors and were produced first in .24 to .31 calibers, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a \"step\" to the cylinder to increase diameter.".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers label "Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers".
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers sameAs Q2984494.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers sameAs Colt_Baby_Dragoon.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers sameAs m.03wb6nq.
- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers sameAs Q2984494.
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- Colt_Pocket_Percussion_Revolvers name "Colt Pocket Models".