Guns International #: 100437573
Seller's Inventory #: 69263
Firearm is used and possibly a WWI issue but exact details are unknown. Pictures represent actual condition of firearm, grips are factory Colt replacement but not the original ones that firearm was manufactured with. Serial numbers are shown in pictures, firearm is ready to ship. Buy it now!
Colt had produced a revolver for the U.S. Army called the M1909, a version of their heavy-frame, .45-caliber, New Service model in .45 Long Colt to supplement and replace a range of 1890s-era .38 caliber Colt and Smith & Wesson revolvers that had demonstrated inadequate stopping power during the Philippine-American War.
The Colt M1917 Revolver was essentially the same as the M1909 with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge and the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. In early Colt production revolvers, attempting to fire the .45 ACP without the half-moon clips was unreliable at best, as the cartridge could slip forward into the cylinder and away from the firing pin.[citation needed] Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had headspacing machined into the cylinder chambers, just as the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolvers had from the start. Newer Colt production could be fired without the half-moon clips, but the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected with a device such as a cleaning rod or pencil, as the cylinder extractor and ejector would pass over the edge of the rimless cartridges.
Firearm appears to be fully functional and does not have any damage other than blue wear, scratches and past signs of rust.
Shipping to lower 48 only,
Shipping $30.00
KNOW YOUR LOCAL AND STATE LAWS!!
Guns International #: 100437573
Seller's Inventory #: 69263
Firearm is used and possibly a WWI issue but exact details are unknown. Pictures represent actual condition of firearm, grips are factory Colt replacement but not the original ones that firearm was manufactured with. Serial numbers are shown in pictures, firearm is ready to ship. Buy it now!
Colt had produced a revolver for the U.S. Army called the M1909, a version of their heavy-frame, .45-caliber, New Service model in .45 Long Colt to supplement and replace a range of 1890s-era .38 caliber Colt and Smith & Wesson revolvers that had demonstrated inadequate stopping power during the Philippine-American War.
The Colt M1917 Revolver was essentially the same as the M1909 with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge and the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. In early Colt production revolvers, attempting to fire the .45 ACP without the half-moon clips was unreliable at best, as the cartridge could slip forward into the cylinder and away from the firing pin.[citation needed] Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had headspacing machined into the cylinder chambers, just as the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolvers had from the start. Newer Colt production could be fired without the half-moon clips, but the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected with a device such as a cleaning rod or pencil, as the cylinder extractor and ejector would pass over the edge of the rimless cartridges.
Firearm appears to be fully functional and does not have any damage other than blue wear, scratches and past signs of rust.
Shipping to lower 48 only,
Shipping $30.00
KNOW YOUR LOCAL AND STATE LAWS!!
Guns International #: 100437573
Seller's Inventory #: 69263
Firearm is used and possibly a WWI issue but exact details are unknown. Pictures represent actual condition of firearm, grips are factory Colt replacement but not the original ones that firearm was manufactured with. Serial numbers are shown in pictures, firearm is ready to ship. Buy it now!
Colt had produced a revolver for the U.S. Army called the M1909, a version of their heavy-frame, .45-caliber, New Service model in .45 Long Colt to supplement and replace a range of 1890s-era .38 caliber Colt and Smith & Wesson revolvers that had demonstrated inadequate stopping power during the Philippine-American War.
The Colt M1917 Revolver was essentially the same as the M1909 with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge and the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. In early Colt production revolvers, attempting to fire the .45 ACP without the half-moon clips was unreliable at best, as the cartridge could slip forward into the cylinder and away from the firing pin.[citation needed] Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had headspacing machined into the cylinder chambers, just as the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolvers had from the start. Newer Colt production could be fired without the half-moon clips, but the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected with a device such as a cleaning rod or pencil, as the cylinder extractor and ejector would pass over the edge of the rimless cartridges.
Firearm appears to be fully functional and does not have any damage other than blue wear, scratches and past signs of rust.
Shipping to lower 48 only,
Shipping $30.00
KNOW YOUR LOCAL AND STATE LAWS!!