Since the half-moon clips adopted by the Army and the later commercial fullmoon clips constitute speed loaders, in addition to providing a surface for the revolver’s star extractor to work on, the revolver can now be loaded at the maximum possible speed. 45 ACP can also be single loaded but there is nothing for the extractor to grab onto, so the cartridges must be picked out with the fingernails or punched out with a stick if they don’t fall out with gravity when time comes for reloading. Revolvers that have the cylinder chambered for the. 45 automatic’s round by the simple expedient of machining off the rear of the revolver’s cylinder enough to make room for the half-moon clip loaded with ammo. Both the Colt New Service M1917 and S&W New Century. Their dreams of monopoly were quashed when the Army ordered them to make the half moon clips available to Colt for free. 45 ACP cartridges to be snapped into a spring steel retainer. Smith & Wesson patented a half moon clip enabling the rimless.
While the day of the revolver was done, as it could not match the Model 1911’s firepower or ability to continue functioning once sand had gotten into the mechanism, there was an insufficient number of those automatics to equip the vast new army being raised for World War I.Īrmy Ordnance did not want to deal with two different cartridges in the logistics system, so any revolvers chosen as a substitute standard would have to fire the rimless.
The M1917 represents the perfection of the American double-action revolver as a military weapon.
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