“Tag: revolvers”

Following consumer demands for the platform, Taurus USA announced the launch of its first-ever optics-ready revolvers with the 856 and 605 T.O.R.O. models.

For 2023, Rossi USA announced that it was back into revolvers in a big way. The company highlighted three new models that will be available in the coming year, with specific options oriented toward concealed carry and target shooting.

Initially developed as a dedicated sidearm for the U.S. military, the Colt Single Action Army became iconic as one of the tools that tamed the frontier and embodied the spirit of the American West.

Davide Pedersoli launched the business bearing his name in Italy, at first specializing in the production of over-under and side-by-side shotguns for hunting. Word of the quality coming out of his factory quickly spread, though, and today the firm produces classic American firearms alongside other fine sporting guns.

When re-introduced in 2005, after a short production pause, the new Vaquero marked a return to the smaller and lighter single-actions Bill Ruger built in the ’50s and ’60s. Many shooters prefer them for their speedier handling, and the latest gun has an improved action and finish.

Of the many revolver designs made by Colt, the Single Action Army family is one of the most famous and long-lived. Follow Rick Hacker as he delves into the specifics of collecting second generation examples of these classic wheelguns.

In the 1830s, a struggling businessman by the name of Samuel Colt patented a revolutionary new handgun that used a revolving cylinder, and with that, the first Colt revolvers came to be made in Paterson Falls, N.J.

Wayne Baker and noted gunsmith Dick Casull—whose namesake .454 Casull cartridge first made headlines in 1959—established the company Freedom Arms. It wasn’t big-bore revolvers they concentrated on, not early anyway.

Created by Smith & Wesson during the Great Depression, in the past eight decades, the .357 Mag. cartridge has seen no shortage in popularity nor the amount of models chambered for it.