Revolver, after a severe competitive trial by the U.S, Ordnance Department in 1873, has now exclusively adopted by the United States Government, and the whole of the United States Cavalry was armed with them in 1874, now made to take the English Government Boxer cartridge. Length of barrel 54 and 74 inches.
In the trial of 1869, advertised by another maker, the Colt's pistol used was a muzzle loaderadapted to the use of metallic cartridges, which pistol has not been made or sold after that year.
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