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Firearms: Revolvers & SemiSemi----AutomaticAutomatic Pistols Clip: 6 Round Cylinder The Smith & Wesson Model 29 is a powerful, six-shot, double-action revolver Damage: See Right Column chambered for the .44 Magnum cartridge; manufactured by the U.S. company Smith Range: Short to Medium & Wesson. At the time of its original introduction, the model 29 was the most Rate of Fire: 1 powerful production handgun. In the late 1990s, Smith and Wesson discontinued Concealability Code: A production of many models of revolvers, including the 'basic' Model 29; since then, Required Skill: Firearms at various times, the model, in limited or 'custom' configurations, has been Black Market Price: $750.00 manufactured. This weapon uses the .44 Magnum Express cartridges (6 Wounds). Clip: 5 Round Cylinder The .500 Super Magnum is a five-shot, double-action revolver, firing the .500 Damage: See Right Column S&W Magnum cartridge. Both Smith & Wesson and the Taura Arms Corporation Range: Short to Medium have created their own variants of this pistol. The Super Magnum is without a doubt Rate of Fire: 1 one of the most power hand guns that is currently in production. This weapon uses Concealability Code: A the .500 Magnum Express cartridges with is an equivalent to the .50 caliber Required Skill: Firearms cartridge that is used by the .50 caliber Desert Eagle (7 Wounds). Black Market Price: $950.00 Clip: 6 Round Cylinder The Colt Army Model 1860 was a muzzle-loaded cap & ball .44-caliber revolver Damage: See Right Column used during the American Civil War. It was favored as a side arm by cavalry, Range: Short to Medium infantry, and artillery troops. The Colt 1860 Army uses the same size frame as the Rate of Fire: 1 .36 caliber 1851 Navy revolver. The frame is relieved to allow the use of a rebated Concealability Code: A cylinder that enables the Army to be chambered in .44 caliber. Also, the barrel on Required Skill: Firearms the 1860 Army has a forcing cone that is visibly shorter than that of the 1851 Navy, Black Market Price: $500.00 allowing the Army revolver to have a longer cylinder. A major distinguishing feature introduced with the 1860 revolver was the "creeping" loading lever. Due to the Paper Cartridges that this pistol uses, it takes 2 Rounds to fully reload this pistol after firing all cartridges in the cylinder. The standard Caliber for this weapon is the .44 cartridge Paper-wrapped cartridge round and conical ball (6 Wounds). Clip: 6 Round Cylinder The Colt avy 1861 cap & ball .36-caliber revolver was a six-shot, single-action Damage: See Right Column percussion weapon produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1861 until Range: Short to Medium 1873. It incorporated the "creeping" or ratchet loading lever and round barrel of the Rate of Fire: 1 .44-caliber Army Model of 1860 but had a barrel one half inch shorter. Total Concealability Code: A production was 38,000 revolvers. Like its forerunner, the Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, Required Skill: Firearms it saw widespread use in the American Civil War and on the American Western Black Market Price: $500.00 frontier, though far fewer were produced. While similar in design to the Colt Army Model 1860; the lighter recoil of the 1861 Navy's .36 caliber was preferred by some cavalry soldiers. Due to the Paper Cartridges that this pistol uses, it takes 2 Rounds to fully reload this pistol after firing all cartridges in the cylinder. The standard Caliber for this weapon is the .36 cartridge Paper-wrapped cartridge round and conical ball (5 Wounds). Clip: 6 Round Cylinder Remington & Son manufactured a percussion .36-(Navy) (5 Wounds) or .44- Damage: See Right Column (Army) (6 Wounds) caliber revolver used during the American Civil War from Range: Short to Medium 1862 onwards. It was used primarily by Union soldiers, and widely favored over the Rate of Fire: 1 standard issue Colt Army Model 1860 by those who could afford it, due primarily Concealability Code: A to its durability and ability to quickly reload by swapping out cylinders. It also saw Required Skill: Firearms use in the American West, both in its original percussion configuration and as a Black Market Price: $1,000.00 metallic cartridge conversion. Originals of these pistols can easily go for at least $1,000.00 dollars. Clip: 6 Round Cylinder The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the Colt Peacemaker , Single Action Damage: See Right Column Army , SAA , and Colt 45 ) is a single action revolver with a revolving cylinder Range: Short to Medium holding six rounds. It was designed for the US government service revolver trials of Rate of Fire: 1 1873 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, today Colt's Concealability Code: A Manufacturing Company and adopted as the standard military service revolver until Required Skill: Firearms 1892. The Colt Single Action Army has been offered in over 30 different calibers Black Market Price: $600.00 and various barrel lengths. Its overall appearance has remained consistent since 1873. Colt has discontinued its production twice, but brought it back due to popular demand. The pistol was popular with ranchers, lawmen, and outlaws alike, but current models are mostly bought by collectors and reenactors. This weapon uses the .45 caliber cartridges (6 Wounds). Clip: 9 Round Cylinder / 1 16 Gauge Round The LeMat percussion revolver was invented by a French gunsmith and first issued Damage: See Right Column in 1861. The gun was famed for its 9 shot capacity and an under barrel 16 or 18 Range: Short to Medium gauge shotgun, and was favored by Confederate soldiers during the civil war. Rate of Fire: 1 Production ceased mainly in 1865 but the gun was still made in limited quantities Concealability Code: A for quite a long time. The LeMat 1861 is still in production by some companies that Required Skill: Firearms make reproductions of period firearms. Actual LeMat pistols from the time of the Black Market Price: $700.00 American Civil War can easily go for at least 2,000 to 4,000 dollars. The LeMat 1861 was chambers for the following calibers: .42 Ball (5 Wounds) or .44 Ball for reproductions (6 Wounds), or the .36 Ball (5 Wounds). The shotgun that is built into the LeMat is typically gauged for 16 Gauge Shot (6 Wounds). Clip: 6 Round Cylinder The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Break-Top Revolver or Damage: See Right Column Webley Self-Extracting Revolver ) was, in various marks, the standard issue Range: Short to Medium service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and Rate of Fire: 1 the Commonwealth from 1887 until 1963. The Webley is a top-break revolver with Concealability Code: A automatic extraction; breaking the revolver open for reloading also operates the Required Skill: Firearms extractor, removing the spent cartridges from the cylinder. The Mk VI was Black Market Price: $600.00 introduced in 1915 during the First World War, is perhaps the best-known model. During the First World War the Webley MK IV was chambered for the .455 (6 Wounds) caliber round, but after the war the gun was reconfigured for the .38/200 (4 Wounds) caliber round and is still in use by police in a number of countries globally. Clip: 8 The .44 Auto Mag pistol was designed between 1966 and 1971 by the Auto Mag Damage: See Right Column Corporation to bring .44 magnum power to a semi-automatic pistol. The short recoil Range: Short to Medium operated Auto Mag pistol featured a rotary bolt with locking lugs located at the Rate of Fire: 2 front similar to the M-16/AR-15 rifle. The Auto Mag is a heavy pistol designed to Concealability Code: A give handgun hunters .44 magnum power in a semi-automatic pistol. The .44 Auto Required Skill: Firearms Mag was designed to shoot .429 inch, 240 grain bullets at about the same velocity Black Market Price: $1,300.00 as the .44 magnum revolver. The standard Caliber for this weapon is the .44 cartridge (6 Wounds). Clip: 8 The .475 Wildey Magnum was purposefully designed to be a hunting firearm, and is Damage: See Right Column built heavier than most handguns which enables it to handle breech pressures over Range: Short to Medium 48,000 psi. The body is made out of stainless steel that comes in two models; the Rate of Fire: 2 Survivor or the Hunter. The only difference between these models is the finish, Concealability Code: A where the Hunter has a matte finish and the Survivor has a satin finish. The gun has Required Skill: Firearms an adjustable gas-operated system. The adjustable nature of the weapon makes it Black Market Price: $1,600.00 possible to fire different sized loads by adjusting the gas pressure. Calibers available are .44 Auto Mag, .45 Winchester Magnum, .45 Wildey Magnum and .475 Wildey Magnum. The standard Caliber for this weapon is the .44 cartridge (6 Wounds). Clip: 8 The 1911 pistol is considered by many gun collectors and veterans the greatest self- Damage: See Right Column loading pistol ever made, and the grandfather of the modern handgun which, despite Range: Short to Medium its age, is still used alongside modern pistols today. Designed by John Moses Rate of Fire: 2 Browning in 1910 with patent dates going as far back as 1897, the .45 caliber pistol Concealability Code: A was adopted into the U.S. military arsenal February 14, 1911. Browning had Required Skill: Firearms combined traits of his former pistols and built a prototype around the recently- Black Market Price: $600.00 developed .45 ACP round.