There's a case study on this very thing that they teach in college. A company that made & sold razors went "all in" on the idea that there's no way that Americans would buy cheap disposable steel razors over buying quality lifetime straight razors. They could buy once & have for life INSTEAD of buying & throwing away razors over & over again. Well you know who won here cause show me the guy who uses a straight razor instead of disposable razors. FYI I have a straight razor. Don't use it all the time, but I bought a refurbished straight razor & it's wild to own something that is of such quality that it can last SEVERAL lifetimes EASILY!

Yes, but no one ever discussed the price factor. Colts were much cheaper than S&W. I'm sure lots bought them for that reason alone!

And them idiots still call hickok45 a fudd 😂

The browning hi power as well imo

I have a bunch of them, and I especially like the 5 inch and 7 1/2 inch models. They are built to last, and the craftsmen who built them ,like artisans. I will never trade them. I have repaired the 5 inch nickeled model several times and got it back in action quickly. I reload .45 Long Colt rounds for them, even making my own ammunition for them. Some cases have been reloaded over twenty times, with bullets I make myself.

There was no 5 inch model. Ignoring the Buntline, barrel lengths of the SAA were 4 3/4, 5 1/2 and 7 1/2 inches.@@jedpeeler4199

PS - I agree that the brand name was a big factor in selling these pistols. Merwin Hulberts were built as well or better, but sold few in comparison.

There IS something to high profile Government contracts giving a civilian sales boost . If it is at least a reasonably good product .

@@filianablanxart8305 agreed. Similar to how people view the 1911, “two world wars”, or the Beretta M9 series, AR15s etc.

Hollywood firearm buggery has been a thing since they invented video cameras. It's only recently started to get better thanks, in large part, to the internet.

One of the more famous examples is the movie about the War of 1812 where during the battle of New Orleans,(1814), Andrew Jackson is shown waving around an 1873 Colt single action.

Shoot Somebody With It And Watch How It Disappears From You In Somebody's Collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@Valor_73737 Might I ask how you came to depend upon it for your life?

@@ToreDL87 Late one night I returned home to my cabin in the foothills west of Denver. As I drove up I noticed in my headlights the front door was ajar. Sensing something was wrong I took the old Colt and approached the door. Standing to one side as I had been trained I pushed the door open and was instantly welcomed by two shots that would have hit me had I been standing in the doorway. Startled, I fell backwards on the ground as a figure appeared in the doorway looking to see where I had gone. Two quick shots to the center of mass ended the confrontation. Only illumination was from street light about a block away. Sights were useless!

@@Valor_73737 😨 I'm sorry that person made you pull the trigger, because they most certainly did. Streetlight a block away from a cabin sounds like it was close enough for someone to bother scoping it out!

@@ToreDL87 It worked out just fine. The deputy that arrived shortly after my call knew the perp, he had been paroled about two weeks before, and there was a warrant for parole violations.

That first theory is more true with reproductions of the s&w revolvers than the genuine article. The originals had a small gasket that put a very small gap between the cylinder and frame to cut down on fouling hangup, many of the reproductions don't have this as they extended the cinder for .45colt hence why you will see folks today complain about them. InrangeTV has a video that discusses this.

The second is true of both the reproductions and the genuine pieces as if there is too much fouling around the cases the extractor will pull them out about halfway, then push them out of the way and the empties will fall below the extractor making it a pain to remove them. There are ways to avoid this though. If the revolver is not empty when you move to reload, open the gun slowly and drop the extractor with the button on the bottom of the gun. This will do two things one keep your unfired rounds seated correctly correctly keep the empties from falling below the extractor at the end of travel. And if the gun is empty, even if you are planning on saving the brass, break the gun open aggressively and "dump" the empty cases at the same time. I know we all want that s&w moment where the empties fly through the air like the movies, but it works better with the help of gravity. And if it's still giving you hangups take it to a gunsmith and have them "slick" the chambers in the cylinder. This is something I do myself but not everyone is comfortable with that. With slicked and oiled chambers the spent brass won't have a tendency to stick or hangup, and should pop out of the gun like in the movies even with a healthy coating of BP fouling. This is also a good thing to do for your SAA or 1875s, as it will allow you to eject spent casings without the rod, by just pointing the gun upward and spinning the cylinder on half cock with the gate open. I spent about 500 dollars and had a used SAA 4 3/4 reproduction tuned, I removed the front post, got better springs machined, replaced the hammer with a fatter version that lays back more, slicked the cylinder and removed the ejector rod. And that may have been a high price because of the guy I went too who had all of the stuff in house, many gunsmiths may not charge as much.

Collecting folks are thus. Pistol users love their guns more. Intimacy only comes from frequently contact and use.

He convinced my Grandfather to Stay with the Single action,rather than the double action,for his use in the wilderness as a packer...

Thanks!

Having had one pointed at me, can confirm. (Was pointed by a criminal, in Australia-many years ago.)

I had a ruger super Blackhawk 44 mag for winter snowmachining (moose) in Alaska but the recoil was too much for me. I traded it in for a 45 long colt. My summer protection (bears) was a marlin 45-70 lever rifle but I switched to a mossberg 12 g pump.

I wouldnt say state of the art considering you could buy a bulldog for a 1/3rd of the price and it was DA/SA and you could carry a full cylinder safely

@@chroma6947 Well, I'd rather buy a bulldog than a poodle any day of the week!

I envy you. I only own two SSAs.

@@duelist1954 I thought you'd have a bunch. A few of mine have odd barrel lengths. Bought one from Carol Wilkerson. nickel plated .357 mag. with a four inch barrel with an ejector. One of these days I'm going to check to see how rare it is. Take care.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

I tried that with the Uberti repros. The triggerguard on the 1860 Army grip is smaller than the Navy grips, and the Cattleman trigger is longer than the percussion Colts. The Cattleman trigger impacted against the guard, and swapping the 1860 trigger into the Cattleman resulted in a gun that would not stick the full cock position (despite eyeballing it and judging the sears to be identical dimensions). Only workaround I could see was grinding the Cattleman trigger shorter.

@@BogeyTheBear - Good info. It is true that a little gunsmithing can solve many situations. I had to shorten a trigger spring in one of the switches that I made. In any event, these Italian clones are all close enough that it doesn't take much work to make them work.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

a mosin nagant stripper clip kind of works as well but they can fall out

Your not alone. Most of us gun guys have one major regret when it comes to missing out on a gun purchase. Don't forget that one regret on selling a firearm you now wish you still had too.

I wasn't around during the 1800's, but I have heard that the speed loaders of those days were several extra loaded cylinders for the cap and ball revolvers.

Another wonderful video. Thanks Mike.

@@bobsradio6025there is vertually no historical documentation of spare cylinders being carried unlike everyone that has ever watched Pale Rider seems to think. However lots of evidence of multiple revolvers being carried as depicted in The Outlaw Josie Wales.

I had a 7 1/2" Vaquero 45 but sold it because I didn't like the weight, sort of top heavy. I am shopping around now for a real Colt 45 also with the 7 1/2" barrel.

That comment really tied the room together ,man.

I enjoyed this video but want get to where you came from! I have played with 4f cartridge loads but after reading in the Blackpowder Cartridge News of a bad experience that Steve Garbe wrote of I have stuck with only using these loads in modern made guns. I have a very nice BP 45acp load, quite the head turner at the range!

@@richardelliott9511 NOT a good idea to use heavy 4Fg charges in a cartridge, unless the gun is modern and capable of handling magnum pressure. In original percussion revolver combustible cartridges, "Hazard Cartridge Powder" was actually about 5Fg, but the charge weights were roughly 10% conical bullet weight (22 grs for a 220 grain conical bullet). The .455 Webley Mk 1 cartridge used 18 grains of what British black powder makers called "Revolver Powder", (roughly 5Fg screened size), and could get a 265 grain bullet to about 750 fps from a 5" barrel even with only a 6.8% charge-to-bullet ratio. I have a reprint of the 1910 version of "WW GREENER's THE GUN" and in it Greener notes that even a nitro proofed double rifle can rupture a barrel when using a long cartridge case full of fine grained (4Fg / 5Fg) black powder. Greener's theory was that the rapid combustion of fine grain BP at the rear of a long column of fine grained BP drove the rear of the powder column forward with such force into the middle points of the charge that the charge "percussion detonated" at several points in the middle creating a possible tremendous pressure peak, IF the detonations were in phase. Around this same era, U.S. Navy pressure tests showed that long columns of fine grained BP could occasionally produce pressure peaks of 100,000 psi, giving some credence to Greener's theory of "in phase mid charge detonations". Most handgun cartridges are too short for detonation to occur, but in a rifle case like the 45-70 or 45-120, it is possible that such a long powder column could detonate, if fully loaded with 4Fg / 5Fg. That being said, I don't think I'd load a full 40 grains of 4Fg / 5Fg in a 45 Colt cartridge. With 4Fg / 5Fg, I'd load about 25 grains max, with corn meal on top, and then maybe move up 5 grains at a time, watching for pressure signs just like a smokeless load. The 25 grain 4Fg / 5Fg with corn meal filler load would likely be safe in any gun, but at full charge levels of 4Fg / 5Fg in a 45 Colt cartridge, I'd be using a Ruger Blackhawk to test with, and watch carefully for pressure. I'd fire 100 + full charge loads, watching carefully for pressure signs before I was convinced that detonation of fine grain BP could not occur at full 45 Colt charge levels. Just my thoughts and I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination, being only an interested student of ballistics.

Richard Elliot , I should have been more careful when I mentioned 4ffff g , as I understand 2ff g was typical in early brass cartridge maybe 3fff g but 4ffffg blackpowder in cartridge was bad , in cap and ball 2ffg was the 1850's revolvers load by 1860's a type of 4ffffg was being used in cap and ball paper cartridge or loose powder but the loads were 1/2 to 2/3 of the old loads there was also I big difference between ball and conical so definitely be real careful with F grades in cartridges, cheers big ears

@@billbearback2591 not to worry on my account. I am happy to have the info that you supplied and do not intend to push the situation any further.

I have had several of those over the years. My favorite has been with me since the mid-1990s

Thanks

Don’t forget the ammo issue: .45 schofield is just a hair smaller than .45 colt. When the US army tried to load “.45” in their schofields, they found that it was impossible to close. That killed S & W sales badly