First seen in 1870, Smith & Wesson’s No. 3 revolver beat the arrival of the Colt Single Action Army revolver by three years. The No. 3 was a large single action revolver with a cylinder holding six cartridges, and its hammer could be cocked by the thumb of either hand. Continue reading “The Smith & Wesson Revolver Model No. 3”
Author: Gary Paul Johnston
Gary Paul Johnston grew up on a tiny ranch in San Dimas, California, where he first shot a .22 rifle under the safety of his uncle and, as he likes to say, “he never stopped.” Gary became a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1963, and began writing in numerous firearms magazines in 1974. He’s published over 2,000 articles, to date, plus four books (two of them on the world's military rifles), and now lives in Colorado.