45 long colt?
this is probably a stupid question but what is the difference between 45 colt and 45 long colt?
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In the 1870's S&W also supplied revolvers to the army. The Smiths had shorter cylinders. Because of this the .45 Colt round was too long. The army for a while stocked both rounds. The "long" probably got tacked on the colt round to avoid confusion. It would have really ruined your day to be in battle with a smith and get handed a box of the colt stuff. 0 -
There really is none. .45 Long Colt was a term folks came up with lots of years ago to differentiate between the .45 Colt and the .45 ACP. I believe most authorities consider the use of .45 Long Colt to be improper, but Mike Venturino wrote an article awhile back (1 year..2 years?) about this term and concluded that the .45 Colt cartridge had "evolved" from it's early production and that the term was actually descriptive (a good one). I had a friend many years ago who would ask, (after a few beers, and after he had forgotten that he had asked before), "Do you know the difference between a .45 Colt and a Colt.45?" 0 -
woodsrunner's answer is correct. There really is no cartridge officially named the ".45 Long Colt." The "Long" got added to the name of the .45 Colt cartridge in common usage to differentiate it from the .45 Schofield, which is shorter than the .45 Colt. A .45 Colt cartridge will not close in the shorter Scoffield cylinder. The term "Long" was not added to differentiate the .45 Colt from the .45 ACP. It was added to differentiate the .45 Colt from the .45 Schofield, and it was added well before the .45 ACP was created. 0 -
JudgeColt, I was reading an article in the current Gun Digest. The author mentioned trying to shoot an origional 1875 Remington. He says in the article that Colt ammo wouldn't chamber because of being too long. Makes me wonder if those chambers were also cut for Schofield ammo. Don't know why they would have done that the cylinder on the Remingtons are plenty long enough. Maybe an attempt to force the shooter to buy propriatory ammo? 0 -
woodsrunner, I do not know much about Remington Model 1875 revolvers. Without doing any extensive research, I note that the Blue Book shows the chamberings for the 1875 to be "... cartridge .44 or .45 Centerfire cal." (capitalization and punctuation as shown - I wonder why "Centerfire" is capitalized?). That indicates to me that the chamberings were not of the common .44 Russian or .45 Colt chamberings of the time. I would guess that the revolver did take either a special short .45 cartridge, or the .45 Schofield round, both of which were apparently shorter than the .45 Colt.Any Remington revolver experts who can enlighten us? 0
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