Revolver

The new wheelgun announcements don’t stop from Colt lately, and all of us here in attendance at Wheelgun Wednesday are happier for it! Their latest announcements are new blued Anaconda offerings of 4.25”, 6”, and 8” barrel lengths as well as a new Cobra 4” Stainless in .38 Special +P.

Pietta just announced they're making the Starr Double Action again. I've wanted one of these for years, same as the  LeMat that just came back. Never shot one, never handled one, but I've been fascinated by them since I first saw the two-trigger setup in an old reference book.

Welcome back to Wheelgun Wednesday, our weekly article series that covers everything about revolvers. Today’s edition is a news article: Taurus has expanded its Raging Hunter revolver series with a version chambered in .350 Legend. The addition brings a straight-walled option to the lineup, aimed at shooters who want a revolver capable of handling hunting or field use within the performance limits of the caliber.

If you are interested in a Registered Magnum revolver, this is a fantastic auction to keep an eye on with a number of Registered as well as Non Registered Magnums with everything from 3” factory models to the longer 6 ½” variants and everything in between. Whether it's a matching set of snub nose magnums or a Registered Magnum that a Virginia ABC inspector carried with an extra set of Stag grips, there are some truly fantastic examples in this auction that would be a fantastic choice for anyone looking for a flagship piece for their collection. One of the models that made an impression is a factory Nickel Registered Magnum that was engraved by Cole Agee.

On August 2, 1876, a single shot in a Deadwood saloon ended the life of James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, a scout, gunfighter, lawman, and one of the most recognised figures of the American frontier. Hickok was holding a pair of black aces and black eights when Jack McCall fired from behind. That combination of cards later became known as the “dead man’s hand,” a phrase that would cement itself in American folklore and appear in books, films, and countless retellings of Old West history.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday. Last week, we took a look at some of the best revolvers to collect as an investment piece. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I want to take a look at the reason why you should not only buy older revolvers as an investment opportunity but also because of the lost art old revolvers had when it comes to craftsmanship. What classic revolvers lacked in modern materials, they excelled in quality, along with the ability to tell stories, compared to modern production revolvers. Whether it's a first-generation Single Action Army or flashy nickel-framed revolvers from the 1970’s each has a unique story that represents a snapshot in time. Let's take a closer look at why you should buy classic revolvers.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday. Last week, I talked about a few revolvers to look at if you want to start collecting. There were some truly iconic guns on that list, so if you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I want to keep this revolver train going with some truly amazing examples of revolvers you should pick up if given the opportunity. Let's take a closer look at some collectable revolvers to buy.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday. This week, I wanted to look at some of the options on the market that you should look at collecting now before prices continue to climb. The younger generations are starting to branch out from the polymer guns and as a result, the classic revolvers that may not be super expensive now will start to become more expensive over time as demand grows. Let's take a closer look at revolvers to buy for collecting.

Say you’re a cavalry soldier in the 1860s, and you want the ultimate cap-and-ball firepower. It was the heyday of percussion revolvers, but surprisingly, they more-or-less mostly followed the same pattern … except for the LeMat. The LeMat was perhaps the world’s first handgun with a 10-round capacity, including a very unique secondary fire capability. And now, Pietta has their reproduction of this classic revolver back into production.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday. This week, I wanted to take a look at one of the newer additions to my collection. I recently came across an interesting Smith & Wesson M1917 revolver chambered in 45 ACP. There are some interesting pieces of this gun and this is one of those firearms where I wish it could talk to me and tell me everything it's been through. Let's take a closer look at my time capsule Smith & Wesson M1917.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday where we regale you with all of the peculiarities, oddities, and new happenings surrounding revolvers and their related counterparts. For this week, we are looking at the newly announced Two-Toned, TALO Exclusive wheelguns from Diamondback Firearms via their SDR (self-defense revolver) series. 

Welcome back to Wheelgun Wednesday. Over the last few months, Smith & Wesson has dropped a number of modern variants of their classic line, with the Model 29, Model 19 as well as the Model 10 all having variants released as a part of their classic line. One of the newest additions to the classic line is the Mountain Gun variant, which brings a modern take on the classic wheelgun era. I received a copy chambered in .44 Magnum for review and over the last few months, I've been taking it for range sessions. Let's take a closer look at the new 629-9 Mountain Gun.

Welcome back to Wheelgun Wednesday, our weekly article series where we cover everything related to revolvers. Today’s topic is another creation by TFB’s friend Booligan, whom you may remember for some unconventional creations. This time, as well, we can see a unique revolver customization, likely divisive due to both its visual impact and design intent.

Welcome back to another Wheelgun Wednesday. This week, I wanted to check out one of my favorite revolvers in my collection, the Smith & Wesson Model 19 Carry Comp. I’ve had this model for just over a year and over time, I have made a few small changes. Throughout my time with the Model 19, there have been some positive as well as a couple of negative aspects. Let's take a closer look at the S&W Model 19 Carry Comp.

It’s a bit weird when you think about it, but percussion revolvers are still fairly popular in the U.S. Considering they’ve been obsolete since the 1870s and were manufactured for only about 40 years, give or take a few years, there are an awful lot of these old thumb-busters still available. There’s a wide variety of models to choose from, but the Remington 1858 remains one of the most popular. Here are a few reasons why.

Hey there, cowboy! How quick are you on the draw? If you’re the fastest gun in the West (or at least, you think you might be), then you can put your skills to the test in the new Extreme Cowboy Fastdraw series, using real guns against real opponents (but not real bullets, for obvious reasons).

One of the most notorious self-defense revolvers of the past couple of decades is back in production—in limited production—and it offers a lot of firepower in a hand-cannon package. The Taurus Raging Judge has returned to the lineup, offering your choice of a standard cowboy cartridge, a heavy-duty bear-buster, or a buckshot load.

Thanks to social media and YouTube, expert shooters can be well-known stars today, even if the mainstream media isn’t so keen on them. But once upon a time, trick shooters and expert marksmen were as famous and media-dominating as pro stick-and-ball athletes are today. Annie Oakley was one of the most famous of them all; if you’ve got the green, you can show what a big fan you are of her legacy by buying her six-shooter through Rock Island Auction this August.

When you think of classic six-guns of the Wild West, of course, Colt is the foremost manufacturer of that era. But once you get past their offerings, there are many other smaller manufacturers who were nevertheless significant, with Smith & Wesson being one of the most important of these companies. While their pocket-sized rimfires were the most common, S&W made big-bore horse pistols too, particularly the Model 3. And if you’ve always wanted a Model 3 with a particularly grim backstory, Rock Island Auction Company has something you might want to see—the revolver that supposedly killed legendary Sioux war chief Sitting Bull.

Guns, politics and bling go together like bacon, lettuce and tomato—just ask Bond Arms, where they release a derringer every few months featuring some political tie-in. But this is nothing new; fancy-pants weapons have been floating around politics for years, and this highly customized Colt 1851 is the perfect example. It was originally presented to Mexican president Benito Juarez, and it is coming up for sale at Rock Island Auctions in the coming weeks.

Kentuckians are gunfighters by nature. So much so that since 1891, every public official in the commonwealth must swear an oath that they will not engage in duels: “Since the adoption of the present Constitution, I being a citizen of the state, have not fought a duel with deadly weapons within the State or nor out of it, nor have I sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, nor have I acted as a second in carrying a challenge nor aided or assisted any person thus offending, so help me God.”

Welcome back to Wheelgun Wednesday, TFB’s weekly article series where we discuss everything revolving around gats with cylinders. Today’s episode is a report about the release of a new limited edition Korth revolver dubbed The Adrenaline. The revolvers made by this German company are brought to the stateside by Nighthawk Custom and this particular model is made exclusively for the US market. Let’s take a closer look.

If you heard about a company that made single-action revolvers, and they’d been in business for 50 years, you’d probably think we were talking about some Peacemaker clone manufacturer. Some of those cowboy-gun-knockoff companies have been in business a long time. But no—we’re talking about North American Arms, which celebrates five decades in business this year, mostly focused on making single-action hideout guns that you can conceal almost anywhere.

Auto-loading pistols rule the roost in the handgun world these days, with revolvers in second place—but that wasn’t always the case. As the 1800s turned into the 1900s, autoloaders were just coming on the scene, but revolvers had decades of established reliability behind them. So what if you wanted the advantages of an auto, but the reliability of a revolver? In the Webley-Fosbery auto revolver, you had an attempt to combine both.

What is the most famous handgun in the history of fiction? James Bond’s Walther PPK? Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum S&W? Considering the Lone Ranger’s history that dates all the way back to the 1930s, you could argue that this legend of the Wild West—or at least, a fictional version of the Wild West—deserves to have his revolvers up for consideration. And now, thanks to an upcoming Morphy auction, you can buy those pistols.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday. Last week, we took a look at the single action revolvers for any budget. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I want to look at the big brother of the Smith & Wesson revolver line. For years, it was the N frame that reigned king, but early on in the 21st century, something larger came along and took the market by storm as the champion of large-framed revolvers. Let's take a closer look at the X-Frame from Smith & Wesson.

For reasons that go far beyond the actual historical record, no firearm is as closely associated with America’s western frontier as the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Introduced in 1873, the original Colt SAA was in production until 1940, with 357,859 revolvers built during that run. Production rebooted in the 1970s and continues until today, but Colt’s modern Peacemaker is an expensive revolver, just as it always has been. Here’s a look at competing products, at price levels for anyone.

You could argue what classic military semi-auto pistol was the best. The Browning Hi-Power has a lot going for it. So does the Colt Model 1911. The Luger P08 scores a lot of style points; the Walther P38 wins on features. But if you’re talking about military revolvers, there’s only one that combines effectiveness with a long lifespan in military arsenals of a wide variety of users. Based on that criteria, the Smith & Wesson Model 1917 is the greatest military revolver of all time, and it’s not even close.

Except for very, very rare exceptions like the Chiappa Rhino, revolvers more or less look the same these days, and function mostly the same as well. There’s a pattern to follow. But in the 1800s, designers were still figuring things out, trying new ideas to make better handguns. One of those was the 1858 revolver from entrepreneur/designer Ebanezer Starr. This was one of the earliest double-action handguns in the world, particularly in the U.S.

Welcome back to another edition of Wheelgun Wednesday. Last week, we talked about the Bitcoin Revolver from Korth. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I really want to look at cool pieces of history when it comes to Smith & Wesson revolvers: the Model 27-2, a hard-use, durable revolver, and the Model 29-2, its big brother chambered in 44 Magnum. Let’s take a closer look at the Model 27 vs Model 29