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Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again

by | Sep 13, 2009 | Art, Guns and Culture

Colt reintroduces its 19th-century “Frontier Six Shooter.”
Until 1900, one out of every four Colt’s Single Action Army (SAA) revolvers was produced in .44-40 caliber. The .44 WCF (.44 Winchester Central Fire, more commonly called the .44-40) was designed in 1873, for use in that year’s famed Winchester lever-action repeating rifle. Within a couple of years, several other rifles—and revolvers—were being produced


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