Is there a thread that lists which BP revolver was made by which company?

I know an 1858 was a Remington
Walker was a Colt
What about 1851?
1849?
1860?
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Both first year of manufacture and year of patent can be used in identifying some cap and ball revolvers.

Just a short list.

1847 Walker Colt
1848 Colt Baby Dragoon
1849 Colt Pocket Model
1851 Colt Navy
1860 Colt Army
1861 Colt Navy
1862 Colt Pocket Police
1862 Colt Pocket Navy

Some Paterson's well be referred to with a year, like 1842 Paterson No5 Holster Model.
 
Colt made the 1849 pocket and wells fargo, they are the same gun, the former has a loading lever, the latter doesn't

Colt made the 1851 as an all steel gun. The brass reproductions that you see mimic those that were made by various companies in the south. They were all .36 caliber. There are rumors that .44 was tested by Colt or these other southern manufacturers but no real proof and not many were made if they were. Not knockin the .44s, they shoot great

The 1860 was made by Colt. Great gun.

The 1861 was made by Colt. Basically the same gun as the 1851 with the sleek barrel assembly design of the 1860.

1862 pocket police and pocket navy were made by Colt. They used the frame from the 1849 pocket and switched to five shots at .36 Pietta makes a nonrealistic repro of this gun. Their model is a short barrel 1861. Uberti makes real reproductions of this gun. They make the guns that Taylors and Cimmaron sell also.
 
True nuff, forgot that one. There is also a Remington police model. I am not sure if it has a seperate year of patent. I do know that the police model that Pietta makes is not correct. WAY to big. The real one is the size of the gun used by Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider (the little gun he only uses to shoot the bad guy in the head at the end). I wish someone made a correct reproduction of that. I think it would be fun. But we can't have all we want.
 
Remington pocket and police are the same thing. Uberti makes accurate sized clones or did. I think they still do.
 
Remington Pocket

Hawg,

Agree. Mine is from ASM marketed by CVA and of course discontinued.
I have heard (rather seen) it refered to as police but I thought that was a present day accomodation to the marketplace.

I am in no way disputing what you said, only that I learned something from you.
 
Eastwood

William,

Again from memory, I thought that Eastwood's secondary battery was a pair of 1849s.

I am pretty sure that the vast majority of the bad guys in Pale Rider were shooting 1860s. Anyone remember?
 
Again from memory, I thought that Eastwood's secondary battery was a pair of 1849s.
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Josie Wales carried an 1849 in a shoulder holster, Preacher carried a pocket Remington.
 
The gun that Clint uses at the very end of the Pale Rider Movie has a trigger guard.

I have never seen a Rem police/pocket that had the trigger guard, they all have those spur triggers. Does anyone make those?
 

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Hmmmm

Not familiar enough with Pale Rider to remember. I do kind of remember him fooling with a small revolver inside the Carry Snodgrass cabin late in the flick.

A second look would settle it I am sure but alas, I don't have the movie.
 
I don't ever remember seeing someone load a BP revolver in a movie, Have you guys seen that?
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In every movie I've ever seen with BP-class pistols, they were never fired or had been modified to fire blank (or non-blank) cartridges. I don't recall a single movie (and I watch closely) in which anyone loads a BP pistol -- including Civil War movies (don't recall the Chamberlain instance). And, of course, many are fired more than six times without reloading.
 
As for BP pistols, don't forget the Confederate-made Colt replicas made during the Civil War, such as the Leech & Rigdon version of the 1851 Colt Navy. There were a number of others, of which a few modern replicas (of replicas) are currently produced by Uberti and others.

Also, Ruger makes an "Old Army" modern BP pistol in .45 caliber which is similar to but not intended to be a replica of the 1860 Colt Army.
 
Also, Ruger makes an "Old Army" modern BP pistol in .45 caliber which is similar to but not intended to be a replica of the 1860 Colt Army.
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I don't see where you get that. The Ruger is a closed frame and the Colt is an open top. The Ruger isn't based on anything but looks more like a Remington if you hold it very far away and squint
 
I actually see the Ruger Old Army as a sort of... downgraded SAA, actually. If you look at the lines and build of it, it's more reminiscent of the Blackhawk than the Remington.
 
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