qsy-complains-a-lot:Colt New Service M1917 revolverMade by Colt’s Patent Firearm Manufacturing Co c.
qsy-complains-a-lot:Colt New Service M1917 revolverMade by Colt’s Patent Firearm Manufacturing Co c.1917-20..45ACP 6-round cylinder reloaded using two half-moon clips, double action, blued like a fine cheese.A stopgap solution to the shortage of Cole M1911 semi-automatic pistols, the M1917 revolvers were manufactured by Colt and Smith and Wesson with minor differences to have every American sidearm still use the same .45ACP cartridge. Later Colt models had the cartridge’s headspace milled out in the chamber to allow reloading without clips, although that meant the extractor would not work with them - Smith and Wesson models had that built in from the start. -- source link