44 Rimfire soon died out, the concept of chambering lever-action rifles in popular revolver calibers endured and Winchester’s. Pistol rounds find a home in lever action rifles The days of the pistol caliber carbine, or in this case the revolver caliber rifle, had finally been realized. 44 rimfire round that year pulled off a neat trick– the ability to be used in either the 15-shot Henry or 13-shot Winchester Model 1866 lever action rifles or the six-shot Smith & Wesson No. Nonetheless, by 1870, the widespread use of all-up cartridges started to put the practice of muzzleloaders in the primitive weapon category. However, these shoulder-stocked handguns were less than popular, as their percussion-cap firing mechanisms, a short length of pull, and open cylinders (in the case of the Colt at least) often left the user’s face a little on the medium-rare side.
The “Dragoon” name in the case of these handguns refers to their use by horse-mounted infantry, a popular 19th-century idea to field units of very mobile foot soldiers in the days before the bicycle or automobile. Notably, around the 1840s, the concept of a handgun that could be fitted with a shoulder stock to allow it to be more useful at range while still enabling it to be compact enough for everyday use in tight places under field conditions led to guns such as the Third Model Colt Dragoon and the Springfield M1855 Dragoon.
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