jason41987
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ive been doing some thinking on the topic of 19th century firearms, and well, you take the knowledge most people think is true because of what they believe from movies, tv, etc... that everyone used single action because that was high tech at the time...
since the 1850s or so, there have been a number of double action revolvers that came and went as it seemed they werent all that popular for one reason or another, and it seems single actions were common throughout the 1910s
so why was there a preference for them?.. why, when other technologies had been available, did people prefer to go with these.... i remember reading that during the civil war when the starr double action was introduced, they asked them to make a single action version of it because thats what they preferred...
am i wrong on this? was it really because a general lack of technologies, or did most the people in the later half of the 19th century, most probably civil war vets, prefer something that handled more like the colts and remingtons they had during the war?
i notice that a preference for revolvers seemed to have ended after world war 1, where many people were introduced to the m1911... and i notice many people coming back from iraq when buying a rifle tend to go with an AR15... so were single actions just preferred because its what the civil war vets, and veterens from later wars in the 19th century were used to and familiar with?
since the 1850s or so, there have been a number of double action revolvers that came and went as it seemed they werent all that popular for one reason or another, and it seems single actions were common throughout the 1910s
so why was there a preference for them?.. why, when other technologies had been available, did people prefer to go with these.... i remember reading that during the civil war when the starr double action was introduced, they asked them to make a single action version of it because thats what they preferred...
am i wrong on this? was it really because a general lack of technologies, or did most the people in the later half of the 19th century, most probably civil war vets, prefer something that handled more like the colts and remingtons they had during the war?
i notice that a preference for revolvers seemed to have ended after world war 1, where many people were introduced to the m1911... and i notice many people coming back from iraq when buying a rifle tend to go with an AR15... so were single actions just preferred because its what the civil war vets, and veterens from later wars in the 19th century were used to and familiar with?