RE: [DL] Re: A Winchester in .45 Colt?

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

I believe that they were (Winchester rifles available in .45 Colt pistol
chambering).  The original SAA were .44-40 -- like a previous poster posted,
it was convenient to have your pistol and your saddle rifle to fire the same
round (Winchester came up with the .44-40 pistol/rifle round, calling it the
.44 WCF -- according to the Winchester website).  If one of the most popular
pistols on the market was going to switch ammo, Winchester would have been
smart to make a rilfe available to partner with it.  So while I cannot right
now find documentation to the fact, it would logically make sense that you
could get your Winchester '76 in Colt .45.

Jeff Y.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Michael Robert Blair
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:43 AM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: [DL] Re: A Winchester in .45 Colt?
>
>
> Are you sure that you could get a Winchester chambered
> for the .45 (Long) Colt? I cannot recall ever seeing
> one listed except in modern 'reproduction' weapons. I
> always thought it was odd that they did not do so,
> though of course that would mean people would have to
> get a Colt chambered for .44-40, a Winchester round.
> Later on, with Browning's stronger action Winchester
> did make lever-action rifles in an interesting
> selection of much more powerful cartridges, some of
> which were .45 calibre but not .45 Colt.
>
> As a rule of thumb anything chambered in a pistol is a
> pistol cartridge - .44-40, .45 Colt...
> The rule has broken down now as people will try and
> chamber anything in a pistol - you can get revolvers
> for .45-70 and I believe they made one for the .50
> BMG.
>
> On the whole though anything larger than .45 is
> probably a rifle cartridge. Off hand I can only think
> of the British .455, .476 Webley and some .50
> revolvers. Was there an early rimfire .58 single shot
> pistol? I must check Barnes when I get home.
>
> Mind you Deadlands is not our history so anything
> could happen.
>
> Michael
>
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