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rdfs:label
  • Colt Revolving Rifle
  • Colt revolving rifle
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  • The Colt revolving rifles were early repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company. They were mainly based upon the patent and mechanism of already existing Colt revolvers like the Colt Sidehammer or the Colt Dragoon.
  • The Colt Model 1855 Revolving Rifle was a revolver-rifle hybrid designed and manufactured by Colt. The Model 1855, as the name suggests, entered production in 1855, although Colt had produced revolving rifles prior to this point, most of the production worked towards the design of the Model 1855.
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manufact
  • Colt, Bervete
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Origin
  • United States
Platform
  • Individual
Design
  • 1838
Service
  • 1838
Name
  • Colt Model 1855 Revolving Carbine
  • Colt Model 1855 Revolving Rifle
Type
usedby
  • United States
Wars
Cap and ball
  • 0.360000
Caliber
  • 0.360000
is ranged
  • yes
Target
  • Personnel
Action
design date
  • 1855
Magazine
  • Five-shot, Six-shot
Death
  • 1864
Barrel
  • 15
Birth
  • 1856
abstract
  • The Colt revolving rifles were early repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company. They were mainly based upon the patent and mechanism of already existing Colt revolvers like the Colt Sidehammer or the Colt Dragoon.
  • The Colt Model 1855 Revolving Rifle was a revolver-rifle hybrid designed and manufactured by Colt. The Model 1855, as the name suggests, entered production in 1855, although Colt had produced revolving rifles prior to this point, most of the production worked towards the design of the Model 1855.