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

["Boone McKenna" <werewolf778@hotmail.com>]

Its like the model 94 or 97, I will have to look at my gun


>From: "Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Subject: RE: [DL] Re: A Winchester in .45 Colt?
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:33:50 -0400
>
>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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