LeadZinger
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The real reason I signed in today was to ask a couple of questions regarding the Fluted Cylinder model of the 1860 Army Colt.
At an estate sale in Atlanta last week I got to handle an original of this model for the first time. The Estate Agent really had a sales patter, which went beyond my own knowledge that Colt dropped manufacturing of this cylinder early on in favor of the rebated type.
First question is how many actually were produced? I've heard/read anywhere between 2500 and 4500.
The second question is based on the Estate Agent's story that Sam Colt personally smuggled 1500 of these guns south just as the War started. And that Confederate forces were the only ones to use them during the War. Is any of this true. Does anyone have reliable source information about these stories?
Since I have a Uberti reproduction of the Fluted Cylinder Army Colt thought it would be nice to know more about it.
At an estate sale in Atlanta last week I got to handle an original of this model for the first time. The Estate Agent really had a sales patter, which went beyond my own knowledge that Colt dropped manufacturing of this cylinder early on in favor of the rebated type.
First question is how many actually were produced? I've heard/read anywhere between 2500 and 4500.
The second question is based on the Estate Agent's story that Sam Colt personally smuggled 1500 of these guns south just as the War started. And that Confederate forces were the only ones to use them during the War. Is any of this true. Does anyone have reliable source information about these stories?
Since I have a Uberti reproduction of the Fluted Cylinder Army Colt thought it would be nice to know more about it.