.45 Long Colt, where did this name come from?

[Nygma]

Originally posted by rburg:
You guys get so tied up in semantics that you get lost.I submit that manufacturers designations aren't conclusive.

Want a Coke or a Kleenex? Those makers violently go after folks that don't fully honor their brand names. And most of us just don't care.

+1

Stirring a boiling pot is still fun every now & then.

 

[Buford57]

Originally posted by Arisin Wind:

Originally posted by Nygma:

Originally posted by Jack Flash:
How 'bout ".45 Colt Maximum"

That would be the 460.

That is the 45 LONGEST Colt

<span class="ev_code_RED">Thus far.</span>

 

[Bob Wright]

There have been several .45 caliber revovler cartridges commercially available: The .45 Smith & Wesson, the .45 Colt Government, and the .45 Colt. The .45 S&W, also called the .45 Schofield, is the same as the .45 Colt Government. Around the turn of the (Twentieth) century, Colt prevailed on some of the ammunition makers to offer the .45 S&W cartridge as the .45 Colt Government, thus eliminating the need to stamp ".45 S&W" on their guns.

Then, just befor WW I Remington-UMC tried to consolidate the .45 Colt/.45 S&W rounds by using the shorter S&W case but keeping the 250 gr. Colt bullet. These were not very well accepted by the shooting public and were made only a short while. Some of thes were sold as the .45 Colt Gov't.

Some vintage .45 rounds.

And, Headstamps of the abopve:

Just a matter of interest.

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

And, just for curiosity, here's the .45's as loaded by Frankford Arsenal for the U.S. Army:

Bob Wright

 

[Jack Flash]

Nice Pictures, Bob!

I'll get into the act with a picture of the .455 Colt (aka .455 Webley Mark I). Here it is with its shorter sibling, the Mark II.

Oh no! Basically the same cartridge, but two different lengths!
You don't suppose the Canadians sometimes say ".455 Long Colt" ?????