Welcome to the very first peek into Gordon’s Gun Closet, where we hope to entertain and educate while chatting about a noteworthy weapon of history, distant or recent. This week we take a look at the ups and downs of the Colt New Service revolver, the quintessential handgun of late 19th and early 20th century Armies.

Show notes and links:

* hickok45 – Colt New Service Revolver Chapter 2 (youtu.be)

* The X-Files – Season 10 – Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org)

* Foyle’s War (foyleswar.com)

* Colt New Service

* Colt M1877

* Colt M1878 – “Double-Action Army”

* Colt M1889 – “New Navy”

* Military history of Canada – the Canadian Expeditionary Force to the South African War, 1899

* North-West Mounted Police

* M1911 pistol

* M1917 revolver

* Colt “Shooting Master” (coltautos.com)

* American Rifleman | A Look Back: The Colt New Service Revolver (americanrifleman.org)