Colt’s Single Action Army influence can be seen in its design. While it relies heavily on the classic SAA look and feel, the Ruger Vaquero packs quite a punch by today’s standards. This new single-action six-shooter comes in blued steel in gleaming stainless ...
The heyday of the single-action revolver is prior to the 1870’s, before the invention and widespread popularity of the double-action revolver. For a single-action revolver to work, the shooter has to cock the hammer first to fire each shot. Even when the double-action revolver’s populari...
I hope that you have found this article both useful and info rmative. My next article will include the topic of gun selection for both action and mounted shooters. This is very important in either sport. For mounted shooters, I will also discuss moving to shooting live ammo off of your h...
Colt had ceased production of the Single Action Army in 1941. Since they had publicly declared that they had no plans to ever resurrect the old Peacemaker, the prices on pre-war Single Action Colts started to rise. Now that Westerns had created a demand for single-actions (as much as ...