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1 History of Smith & Wesson

In 1852 partners Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed a company to produce a lever action pistol nicknamed "The Volcanic". The company formed by the partners came to be known as the ""Volcanic Repeating Arms Company", and due to financial difficulties this company came into the majority ownership of investor Oliver Winchester.

In 1856 the partners left the Volcanic Company to begin a new company and manufacture a newly designed revolver and cartridge combination. The timing of the founding of this new company was quite fortuitous, as the arrival of the Civil War five years later produced a great demand for Smith & Wesson's products.

Smith & Wesson is famous for the many types of ammunition it has introduced over the years, for its first double action high capacity pistol and for its revolver know how.

1 Ammunition types introduced by S&W

• .22 Short (the popular .22 Long Rifle, based on the .22 Short, was actually developed by the J.Stevens Arms & Tool Co.)
• .32 S&W (sometimes called .32 Short)
• .32 S&W Gallery
• .32 S&W Long
• .35 S&W Automatic
• .38 S&W
• .38 S&W Special
• .357 S&W Magnum357 Magnum revolver cartridge is produced by the firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson. Based upon their earlier. 38 Special revolver cartridge, the. 357 Magnum cartridge was introduced in 1934 and its use has since become widespread. Design The. 357 Magnu
• .40 S&W40 S&W is a 10 mm pistol rimless cartridge designed by Smith & Wesson a famous American firearms manufacturer. History It evolved from the 10 mm Auto pistol ammunition which had been adopted by the FBI, but turned out to be too powerful. When the FBI star
• .41 Remington Magnum (while the ammunition developed by Remington, the first revolvers to chamber this cartridge were made by S&W)
• .44 S&W American
• .44 S&W Russian
• .44 S&W Special44 Special revolver cartridge is produced by the firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson. It was introduced in 1907. While few firearms today are made to chamber the. 44 Special explicitly, the cartridge lives on because it can be fired in any revolver desig
• .44 Remington Magnum44 Magnum cartridge is produced by the firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson. Based upon their earlier. 44 Special revolver cartridge, the. 44 Magnum cartridge was introduced in 1956. 44 Magnum revolver will generally accept both. 44 Magnum and. 44 Special (see note at .41 Remingotn Magnum)
• .45 S&W Schofield45 Schofield is a revolver cartridge developed by Smith & Wesson for their Schofield break-top revolver. Synonyms . 45 S&W Schofield See also List of handgun cartridges List of cartridges by caliber 11 mm caliber . 45 Colt External links Pistol and rifle
• .500 S&W Magnum500 S&W is a handgun made by Smith & Wesson. Magnum was introduced February of 2004. Record-breaking demand for the firearm has outpaced manufacture for all of its existence. Currently only one model fires this massive caliber, the X-Frame model 500 revol

2 Famous S&W revolvers

• Model 3 (First automatic ejection of used ammunition)
• Model 10 (First .38 Special)
• Model 19 (First low weight .357 Magnum)
• Model 27 (First .357 Magnum)
• Model 60 (First stainless made .357 Magnum)
• Model 29The Smith and Wesson (S & W) Model 29, is a six shot double action revolver chambered for the. 44 Magnum cartridge. It will also chamber and fire. 44 Special cartridges, as the. 44 Magnum was developed from the. The Magnum case is slightly longer to preve (First .44 Magnum)
• Model 1917 (First revolver that could fire .45 ACP pistol ammunition)
• Model 586 (First heavy duty medium weight .357 Magnum)
• Model 625 (Holds the world record for 2 x 6 shoots with reload)
• Model 500 (First .500 Magnum)

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