Talk:Colt's Manufacturing Company - Revision history

Evil Tim: /* Useless fact */ new section

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Useless fact: new section

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	== Lightning ==		== Lightning ==
	Can Someone change the photo of the Lightning on this page, which is a SAA converted to look like a Lightning, with a picture which actually contains a Lightning, like [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:ColtLightning.jpg].		Can Someone change the photo of the Lightning on this page, which is a SAA converted to look like a Lightning, with a picture which actually contains a Lightning, like [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:ColtLightning.jpg].

			== Useless fact ==

			The US military used machine tool jigs for Colt revolver cylinders to make their earliest mass-produced cavity magnetrons. [[User:Evil Tim\|Evil Tim]] ([[User talk:Evil Tim\|talk]]) 18:01, 11 November 2018 (EST)

Sangheili1155 at 14:00, 16 September 2012

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	:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)
	::It's a bit odd really, their autos should have some sort of theme really, maybe they're different parts of the company who work on the naming of revolvers and autos. --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 19:01, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		::It's a bit odd really, their autos should have some sort of theme really, maybe they're different parts of the company who work on the naming of revolvers and autos. --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 19:01, 10 July 2012 (CDT)


			== Lightning ==
			Can Someone change the photo of the Lightning on this page, which is a SAA converted to look like a Lightning, with a picture which actually contains a Lightning, like [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:ColtLightning.jpg].

Cool-breeze: /* Colt's names for guns */

2012-07-11T00:01:33Z

Colt's names for guns

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	I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)
	:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)
			::It's a bit odd really, their autos should have some sort of theme really, maybe they're different parts of the company who work on the naming of revolvers and autos. --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 19:01, 10 July 2012 (CDT)

Commando552: /* Colt's names for guns */

2012-07-10T20:36:44Z

Colt's names for guns

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	I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)
			:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)

Cool-breeze at 12:41, 10 July 2012

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	::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012		::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012
	Ah well that's fair enough. Nope, the only reason I failed to include it was that it didn't have "Colt" in its page title so I missed it when I was making the page. Thanks for catching it! :-) --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 11:35, 26 April 2012 (CDT)		Ah well that's fair enough. Nope, the only reason I failed to include it was that it didn't have "Colt" in its page title so I missed it when I was making the page. Thanks for catching it! :-) --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 11:35, 26 April 2012 (CDT)

			== Colt's names for guns ==

			I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)

Zackmann08 at 16:35, 26 April 2012

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	:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)		:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)
	::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012		::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012
			Ah well that's fair enough. Nope, the only reason I failed to include it was that it didn't have "Colt" in its page title so I missed it when I was making the page. Thanks for catching it! :-) --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 11:35, 26 April 2012 (CDT)

A Shootist at 15:57, 26 April 2012

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	::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012		::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012
	:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)		:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)
			::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012

Zackmann08 at 01:29, 26 April 2012

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	:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)		:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)
	::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012		::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012
			:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)

A Shootist at 00:30, 26 April 2012

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	And what about the Tommy Gun and the BAR? - [[User:Bozitojugg3rn4ut\|bozitojugg3rn4ut]] 15:50, 28 January 2012 (CST)		And what about the Tommy Gun and the BAR? - [[User:Bozitojugg3rn4ut\|bozitojugg3rn4ut]] 15:50, 28 January 2012 (CST)
	:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)		:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)
			::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012

Zackmann08 at 00:41, 29 January 2012

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	And what about the Tommy Gun and the BAR? - [[User:Bozitojugg3rn4ut\|bozitojugg3rn4ut]] 15:50, 28 January 2012 (CST)		And what about the Tommy Gun and the BAR? - [[User:Bozitojugg3rn4ut\|bozitojugg3rn4ut]] 15:50, 28 January 2012 (CST)
	I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)		:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)

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	I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		I've noticed a pattern with how Colt names some of it's guns, a lot of their revolvers are named after types of snakes where as their automatics are named after random animals like the Double Eagle, Pony and Mustang. But their revolvers seem to be named after types of snakes unless it's something like police positive or detective special etc. Does anyone know why this is? --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 07:41, 10 July 2012 (CDT)
	:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)		:I don't think there is really a pattern with the automatics. Double Eagle is called that because it is double action and someone decided "Eagle" was patriotic and would sell better, and Mustang and Pony are both horses because one is a variant of another. I'm surprised there aren't more colt pistols that use horse based names, as a colt is a horse. There is definitely a snake theme with the revolvers though but don't know the reason. I always imagined that the way these things work is that the first gun has a snake name, so a variant of it gets a different snake name, and these names were well received so they just kept doing the snake route and it becomes a pattern. On the topic of the snake revolvers, does anyone know if there any way to tell the difference between a Detective Special and a Cobra, as they look pretty much identical in terms of a visual ID yet they have their own pages. --[[User:Commando552\|commando552]] 15:36, 10 July 2012 (CDT)
			::It's a bit odd really, their autos should have some sort of theme really, maybe they're different parts of the company who work on the naming of revolvers and autos. --[[User:Cool-breeze\|cool-breeze]] 19:01, 10 July 2012 (CDT)

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	:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)		:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)
	::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012		::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012
			Ah well that's fair enough. Nope, the only reason I failed to include it was that it didn't have "Colt" in its page title so I missed it when I was making the page. Thanks for catching it! :-) --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 11:35, 26 April 2012 (CDT)

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	::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012		::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012
	:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)		:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)
			::::Sure,just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason it might not have been included. --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 11:57, 2 April 2012

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	:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)		:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)
	::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012		::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012
			:::See my previous comment.... This is a community effort. If you see something missing, fix it... Don't just complain about it. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 20:29, 25 April 2012 (CDT)

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	And what about the Tommy Gun and the BAR? - [[User:Bozitojugg3rn4ut\|bozitojugg3rn4ut]] 15:50, 28 January 2012 (CST)		And what about the Tommy Gun and the BAR? - [[User:Bozitojugg3rn4ut\|bozitojugg3rn4ut]] 15:50, 28 January 2012 (CST)
	:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)		:I missed those... I was going off of everything that had "Colt" in its name. Feel free to add them. --[[User:Zackmann08\|Zackmann08]] 18:41, 28 January 2012 (CST)
			::What about the Single Action Army? --[[User:A Shootist\|A Shootist]] 8:29, 25 April 2012