Colt US Army 1917 Double-action Revolver

Colt 1917 for sale, When the Americans formally entered World War 1 in 1917, they lacked much in the way of viable fighting equipment having had an isolationist perspective & this included stores of viable military small arms. The United States Army had already adopted the semi-automatic, repeating Colt M1911 pistol designed by John Browning but needed to shore up war-time limitations even when various manufacturers had already committed to production of the M1911. The US Army, therefore, chartered both the Colt & Smith & Wesson concerns to produce a six-shot revolver sidearm under the “M1917″ designation & chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge – the same as used in the M1911. Both firms naturally accepted the government contract & each went on to produce slightly different versions of the gun with the Colt being the more sought after by collectors.

Also, The M1917 Revolvers were six-shot, .45 ACP, large frame revolvers & adopted by the United States Military in 1917 as the designation implies.

Both the Colt & the S&W used moon-clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position & to aid in extraction.

The Colt M1917 Revolver was essentially the same as the M1909 with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge & the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position.

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