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Originally Posted by DWalt
I don't know. I think some gun writer or writers started calling it that perhaps in the 1960s or 70s, and it just caught on, to the extent that the last few generations commonly call it the "Long" Colt. Serious cartridge collectors cringe at that term. It would be interesting if someone went back through the old gun magazines to establish when and where that started.
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Certainly before Elmer Keith, who explained that there was a short Colt. He may have meant the Schofield.