He was a renowned machinist before joining Colt as its Chief Mechanic in 1849 and bringing his precision machining tools with him.
The difference between a cap-and-ball pistol, and a rifle, was simple: One didn’t stick one’s left hand and arm forward of the front of the cylinder with a revolver.
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'.
This is an exceptional original example of a Colt Civil War era Model 1855 revolving rifle with 31-inch barrel with lug front sight for socket bayonet. Unfortunately, records are incomplete.
Nonetheless, as discovered on the used gun rack of American Gun Works in Glendale, Calif. (), this carbine is easily worth between $9,500 and $12,000. Those on the receiving end would have found it to be quite ‘real’ and far from being a ‘range toy’.i want to shoot dirty ammo through it and then have it confiscated.I thought a few years ago Dixie Gun Works introduced a replica Root revolving +rifle in .56 cal, but I didn’t see it in their 2017 catalog.
Usually.Jacobs Munitions!
Colt London Agency sold approximately 2,000 Model 1855 Revolving Carbines.
Available with six-shot unfluted cylinders in .36 and .40 calibers (both rare) as well as in .44 caliber, it was also produced in more readily encountered .50- and .56-cal. They can still be acquired. However, the saber bayonet lug on the barrel, the sling swivels, the three-leaf sight graduated for 100, 300 and 500 yds. Most of the sporting rifles are half stock models, approximately 1,000 – 1,5000, while the full stocked Sporting Rifles are thought to number around… well, no one knows.If a company could incorporate a gas sealing mechanism like the Nagant M1895 revolver, I’d say about as effective as a modern lever-action carbine.On a related political note, if the ‘Grabbers’ ever outlaw mag-fed rifles, I could easily see a modern resurgence in cylinder-rifles, since a 10 round or so cylinder wouldn’t be unmanageable in a rifle…Rossi has a series like that in centerfire & rimfire.But it doesn’t seal the chamber, and you get blast in your face.When it was made I’d say it was about 5 times for effective than the other rifles of the day.If one were a combattant of the War for the Union and one’s opponents had just fired a volley and were then reloading their single shot frontloaders (1861 Springfield, et.
From my reading, I learned that before the Civil War, the U.S. Marine Corps bought some Root rifles for Marines assigned to ship guard detachments, and the rifle was unpopular because of the side-blast issue.The real danger from these guns was far more than just ‘side-blast’ from the cylinder/breech gap; It was the very serious risk of having the off-side hand and forearm noisily and bloodily punctured, if not removed entirely, by one or more of the other cylinder bores NOT aligned with the barrel discharging along with the intended one, if that arm and hand was holding the forearm.Why is there a dildo in the box? And true to its name, the 1855 featured a side-mounted hammer, much in the style of percussion rifles. Colt Model 1855 Revolving Carbines are a rare variation of the Colt Model 1855 Revolving Rifle. Look at the Taurus Circuit Judge. al. His patents include: a compound rifling machine for rifling four barrels at once instead of one, a machine for boring chambers in revolver cylinders, the slide lathe, three patents for making cartridges, one patent for packaging them, a better way to shape pistol stocks, improving the machine used to pump water into the Armsmear reservoir, and some steam-engines that Colt manufactured for the Russian government.Root even served as one of Colt’s eight pallbearers at his 1862 funeral and then served as president of Colt Manufacturing until his own death on July 5, 1865.These rare revolving rifles have much in common with their other sidehammer brethren (the revolvers, military rifles, half stock Sporters, shotguns, and carbines), though it was the design and balance of the full and half stock Sporting rifles that made them a preferred presentation piece of Samuel Colt.Known specimens have been presented to the aforementioned Mr. Root, Secretary of War John B. Floyd, the Major and Second Kings of Siam, as well as members of the Russian Imperial Court. *Guns were numbered according to caliber and model, and accurate records are scarce; but this gun does not have the locking screw on the upper left-hand portion of the receiver, as seen on later models, confirming its early manufacture date.While the multi-shot capabilities of Model 1855 Revolving Rifles and Carbines were a battlefield “plus,” they were offset by the frequency of multiple discharges, which could severely injure a shooter’s supporting hand unless it was positioned underneath the trigger guard, away from the cylinder. This feature, plus a ratchet-style, Root-patented loading rammer (later incorporated into the Model 1860 Army) and a cylinder base pin that screwed into the frame from the rear, evolved into Colt’s Model 1855 Revolving Rifle.The initial version, the “First Model” Sporting Rifle, was introduced in 1856 and featured a walnut stock, color-casehardened hammer and loading rammer, and barrels of varying calibers and lengths.
Elisha King Root.
The stock and forearm have a military oil-finish.
Thus, if one or more extra charges fired occasionally, the revolver just jammed or came apart.
To this list can now be added the Palmetto .36 calibre copy of the famous Colt Roots revolver. “If it took more than one shot, you weren’t using a Jakobs!”This is a cool rifle.
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