Wild West Game Experiences

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

The Colt revolver rifle was from 1855, no? Were any of the others actually commonly employed (as opposed to just patents, prototypes, or rare oddballs)?

The black powder revolvers were common in the US from the 1830s onward. Colt Paterson, Walker, Dragoon. There were also the pepperbox styles. But AFAIK even newly designed rifles were still generally muzzleloaders even up to the American Civil War, when the Henry and Spencer show up.

I don't remember dates much so much as details. I do remember the Texas Rangers adopting revolvers because that was an important event that gave them the upper hand against the Comanche. Before it was actually the Comanche that had the advantage because of their better equestrianism, etc, and a saber isn't really enough better then a Comanche traditional hand weapon to make up for that.

This is of course in Texas. However now that I think about it the period of Texan sovereignty was about a decade or so before the conquest of California. So revolvers would have been available for several years already.

As for rifles from what I know there were very few repeaters of any kind(revolving or magazine) and those seemed to be experimental. The idea was old but their wouldn't have been enough actual models to introduce one to the game without a special explaination for the reason.