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Old 08-29-2017, 01:50 PM
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Trivia, Many moons ago, I was doing some research at Hartford on early Colt SAAs and found an entry in the Colt records of a shipment to England of some Colts in caliber .42 Smith & Wesson. ???? Digging further I discovered the caliber was actually .44 American but since the land diameter of the barrel rifling was .42/100th, Colt called the caliber .42 S&W. Go figure! Ed. ( I'm recalling this off the top of my head, if you want more details, I wrote an article for an early S&WCA Journal about the ".42 S&W" that gives the full story)

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