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Originally Posted by Jack222
I always wondered if the LC nomenclature came from the Movie "the Quick and the Dead" when Crowe asked the blind boy to throw him a 45 Long Colt. Or was it around before that?
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There was an informative article in Handloader magazine about 5 years back that explained the history of the US Army's adoption of handgun ammo between 1865 and 1875. If I recall correctly the original ".45 Colt" is the case that was developed for the 1873 SAA and which is available commercially today as either the .45 Colt or sometimes called the "long Colt". When the US Army adopted the S&W Scholfield top break in 1875, the standard .45 Colt case was too long to chamber and a shorter case was adopted as the standard for both the Scholfield and the SAA. The shorter Scholfield chambers in the SAA. So, in reality there is a .45 Colt round, the 1873 original case length available today, and a .45 Scholfield or "Short Colt" round, but not a "Long Colt".
My 25-5 is technically chambered in .45 Colt.