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The Colt New Service was produced for government contracts and civilian sales between 1898 and 1944. It came in a plethora of popular calibers available during its lengthy production run and was also available in a number of finishes and barrel lengths. The revolver was most commonly chambered in a variety of .45 caliber rounds, including ACP and Colt. It served American forces during the First World War and accompanied many police officers in their duties throughout the first half of the twentieth century.  
 
The Colt New Service was produced for government contracts and civilian sales between 1898 and 1944. It came in a plethora of popular calibers available during its lengthy production run and was also available in a number of finishes and barrel lengths. The revolver was most commonly chambered in a variety of .45 caliber rounds, including ACP and Colt. It served American forces during the First World War and accompanied many police officers in their duties throughout the first half of the twentieth century.  
  
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A Colt New Service was used to classify any new model of Colt revolver issued to Army forces. They were built in the .38 long colt (pre .38 special) model made in 1898, the .357 magnum model made sometime in 1935-1936, a .44-40 model, a .44 special model, a .38-40 model, a .45 Long Colt and a .45 caliber ACP model built for the military, the M1917. Because the U.S. Army had already adopted the M1911A1 pistol in 1911, which took a .45 ACP round, they needed to build a gun capable of firing this new round as a rimmed .45 Long Colt round would cost too much to bring into production, so they built half and full moon clips which clamped 3 or 6 rounds of .45 ACP together and acted as a rim for the automatic cartridge, allowing the 1917 to fire .45 ACP rounds. A .45 long colt round, while dimensionally capable of fitting the chamber of a 1917, it is too long to fit the cylinder, meaning this gun is actually meant to only fire .45 ACP. The only cartridge capable of fitting the cylinder is a .45 long colt blank.
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They were built in .45 Colt, .44-40, .38-40, .38 Special, .455 Webley and, eventually, .357 Magnum. The most numerous model was that in .455 Webley for issue to the British military in WW1. The US Army also used the New Service in .45 Colt as the M1909, adopted temporarily to replace the failed series of .38 Long Colt revolvers used since 1889, until the semi-automatic M1911 pistol then under testing was ready for service. A variant chambered in .45ACP using half-moon clips, the M1917, would be introduced during WW1 to supplement short supplies of M1911s.
  
  
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[[Image:ColtModel1909Army.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Model 1909 Colt Army Revolver - .45 LC.  This Model is stamped Property of U.S. Government.]]
 
[[Image:ColtModel1909Army.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Model 1909 Colt Army Revolver - .45 LC.  This Model is stamped Property of U.S. Government.]]
 
[[Image:ColtNewService44.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Colt New Service - .44-40]]
 
[[Image:ColtNewService44.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Colt New Service - .44-40]]
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[[Image:Hc-9289.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Colt New Service 1898 .38 colt.]]
 
 
[[Image:Colt New Army .357.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Colt New Service 1935-1936 .357 magnum.]]
 
[[Image:Colt New Army .357.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Colt New Service 1935-1936 .357 magnum.]]
 
[[Image:Colt_New_Service.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Colt M1917 in moon clipped .45 ACP.]]
 
[[Image:Colt_New_Service.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Colt M1917 in moon clipped .45 ACP.]]

Revision as of 22:38, 29 June 2009

The Colt New Service was produced for government contracts and civilian sales between 1898 and 1944. It came in a plethora of popular calibers available during its lengthy production run and was also available in a number of finishes and barrel lengths. The revolver was most commonly chambered in a variety of .45 caliber rounds, including ACP and Colt. It served American forces during the First World War and accompanied many police officers in their duties throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

They were built in .45 Colt, .44-40, .38-40, .38 Special, .455 Webley and, eventually, .357 Magnum. The most numerous model was that in .455 Webley for issue to the British military in WW1. The US Army also used the New Service in .45 Colt as the M1909, adopted temporarily to replace the failed series of .38 Long Colt revolvers used since 1889, until the semi-automatic M1911 pistol then under testing was ready for service. A variant chambered in .45ACP using half-moon clips, the M1917, would be introduced during WW1 to supplement short supplies of M1911s.



The Colt New Service revolver can be seen in the following films and television shows used by the following actors:

Colt New Service Revolver - .45 LC. The military version of this revolver is the M1909 (also chambered for .45 Long Colt)
Model 1909 Colt Army Revolver - .45 LC. This Model is stamped Property of U.S. Government.
Colt New Service - .44-40
Colt New Service 1935-1936 .357 magnum.
Colt M1917 in moon clipped .45 ACP.


Films

  • Paul Reynolds as Chris Craig in Let Him Have It - (.455 British Service and with shortened barrel) (1991)
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