RightArm
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In the movie The Quick and the Dead, Russell Crowe yells to the blind guy "45 long colt" when he needs another one. Maybe this caught on and explains more relatively recent usage.
Does it bother anyone else, or is it just me?
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Stevie
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That was ".38 Long Colt"...I just watched the movie a day or so back...Crowe had a nasty looking Colt Navy conversion...
ryanjames170
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I personaly call it long colt becuse so many people think im talking about 45 Auto..
monet61
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I could be wrong, but I think he hollered out for a .38 long colt.
Faulkner
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.45 Colt or .45 Long Colt, it don't bother me either way.
Now, what gets my goat is to see a grown man refer to a firearm as a Winnie, Remmy, Mossy, or shotty. Really now, does a real man walk into a gunshop and ask to see a 'shotty' on the rack?
Now, what gets my goat is to see a grown man refer to a firearm as a Winnie, Remmy, Mossy, or shotty. Really now, does a real man walk into a gunshop and ask to see a 'shotty' on the rack?
mjr
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"Shotty" drives me up the wall, but lately I've wondered if old guys back in the 1920s reacted the same way when some young punk called a 2" revolver a "snubbie?"
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I have been shooting and loading for .45 (Long) Colt since 1973. It isn't a new thing. It drove purists up the wall even then. Doesn't bother me. It's a good way to differentiate between ACP and "Long" Colt.
I think that it's far more important to know whether I can use .38 Special +P in my Model 66.
keith44spl
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I always heard the ol timers call it that...Long Colt.
I've just been shootin it by that name for a mere 50 years.
Su Amigo,
Dave
I've just been shootin it by that name for a mere 50 years.
Su Amigo,
Dave
Potato, potato......the "shotty" thing drives me up a wall, though. Makes me think they oughta blow their nose......
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Popular name vs. Official or factory designation designation. Most shooters understand what is meant by "Trapdoor Springfield" though that was never an "Official" designation. Likewise referring to an M1903 Springfield-when it was made by Rock Island ? Or Remington. Or a 1911 "Colt" made by Ithaca?
dirty gary
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Great mileage on this debate. Maybe its because we also drive on the parkway and park on the drive way
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It's been around as long as I can recall, but I know on the left side of the barrel of my 1930's era Colt it simply says .45 Colt with no long anywhere to be found. Who knows why it came from, it reminds me of the debate between gun owners over which is more powerful, .30-30 or .32 Winchester Special.
mkk41
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I've heard the Schofield/Colt theory. And I have some old .45 Schofield-length factory ammo marked .45 Colt.heard the term .45 LONG Colt came about much later , and was used when asking for the classic revolver ammo , and not .45 Colt Auto (ACP)
Conspiracies abound!
Conspiracies abound!
rburg
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All this posting and we haven't even started on the other 45 Short Colt, the auto rim. But these days I don't even bother with any .45s, preferring 44s a lot more. And we've got Rooshins, specials, maggies,and the extended things.
I make mistakes from time to time. Like a while back when I bought a 32 Colt Long. In the sordid past I had a 32 Colt New Police long. I'd never realized that the Colt cartridges were .299, not 32s. Doesn't matter much. I'm not reloading them, so I won't need much more than a gun full or two. Didn't Leroy Brown have a 32 gun in his pocket for fun?
I make mistakes from time to time. Like a while back when I bought a 32 Colt Long. In the sordid past I had a 32 Colt New Police long. I'd never realized that the Colt cartridges were .299, not 32s. Doesn't matter much. I'm not reloading them, so I won't need much more than a gun full or two. Didn't Leroy Brown have a 32 gun in his pocket for fun?
Stevie
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Thinking about it..wasn't there a 'special' cartridge for the Colt 1909?...had more rim or some-such...maybe that's the much fabled seldom seen .45 short Colt
Fishslayer
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It's a really long thread for this info... Just saying
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