The revolver is associated with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Rowe, commanding Officer NSW Corps of Engineers. Greener was probably suggesting prayer, although once a solid frame revolver was empty the prayer might have been accompanied by use of a saber in an attempt to survive the encounter: swords don’t run out of cartridges. Greener suggests that if six shots were not enough to dispel the emergency then the remaining time might be better spent than trying to hurriedly reload. In his book “ The Gun and its Development” W.W. These revolvers earned themselves a good reputation, but despite their being double action, they were solid frame revolvers with a fixed cylinder and just like the Colt Single Action Army, they had to be unloaded and reloaded one cartridge at a time.
Colt made their double action revolver of 1877, but this proved to be unreliable, and so although favored by the likes of Billy the Kid it earned itself the nickname of “The gunsmith’s friend” and was not favored as a revolver you would stake your life on.īritish maker Webley were quick to appreciate the advantages of the double-action and began making solid frame reliable double action revolvers in the 1860’s, notably the Webley RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) which was adopted in 1868, and the Army Express models which date from the late 1860’s and 1870’s. 3 (and the Schofield) gained some traction. For Americans the Colt Single Action Army of 1873 was by and large the standard although the single action Smith & Wesson No. The Colonial British and Americans took a somewhat different approach to revolvers.
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