The Colt New Service

This, the first episode of Gordon’s Gun Closet, originally aired in February of 2016. Any affiliate links or references to the CSICON network are no longer active.

Welcome to the very first peek into Gordon’s Gun Closet, where we hope to entertain and educate while chatting about a noteworthy weapon of history, distant or recent. This week we take a look at the ups and downs of the Colt New Service revolver, the quintessential handgun of late 19th and early 20th century Armies.

Links:

• hickok45 - Colt New Service Revolver Chapter 2

• The X-Files - Season 10 - Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org)

• Foyle's War (foyleswar.com)

• Colt New Service

• Colt M1877

• Colt M1878 - "Double-Action Army"

• Colt M1889 - "New Navy"

• Military history of Canada - the Canadian Expeditionary Force to the South African War, 1899

• North-West Mounted Police

• M1911 pistol

• M1917 revolver

• Colt "Shooting Master" (coltautos.com)

• American Rifleman | A Look Back: The Colt New Service Revolver