{"id":10716,"date":"2011-08-30T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2013-08-08T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T03:15:03","slug":"on-gun-stories-the-1873-colt-single-action-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-gun-stories-the-1873-colt-single-action-army\/10716\/","title":{"rendered":"On Gun Stories: The 1873 Colt Single Action Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10728\" title=\"gunstoriesep3drtv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gunstoriesep3drtv-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gunstoriesep3drtv-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gunstoriesep3drtv.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Samuel Colt and his invention of the revolver changed the world. The ability to fire five or six rounds without reloading made a huge difference in the history of firearms. Sam Colt set a standard, but his 1873 Single Action Army was a model he wasn&#8217;t even around to see.<\/p>\n<p>Gun experts you&#8217;ll meet in this episode: Alex Rose, Gene &#8220;Evil Roy&#8221; Pearcey, Dick Williams, George Harris, Ken Hackathorn, Bill Laughridge, Jim Supica, Philip Shreier, Dr. Jack Atwater, Larry Potterfield, Gary Paul Johnston, Stephen Hunter, Jason Schubert, Ross Seyfried and Ted Nugent.<\/p>\n<p>First aired on 07-13-11.<\/p>\n<p>Last time aired on Outdoor Channel: 09-01-11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/forum\/index.php?topic=16825\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss this episode on the DRTV forum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Stories Home Page on Outdoorchannel.com:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/Shows\/GunStories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/Shows\/GunStories.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Stories Facebook Fan Page:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GunStories\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GunStories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna on Facebook<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joemantegna\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joemantegna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna on Twitter<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMantegna\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMantegna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna&#8217;s web site<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemantegna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.joemantegna.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Colt and his invention of the revolver changed the world. The ability to fire five or six rounds without reloading made a huge difference in the history of firearms. Sam Colt set a standard, but his 1873 Single Action Army was a model he wasn&#8217;t even around to see. Gun experts you&#8217;ll meet in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":10728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3173],"tags":[1910,1508,1908,1912,1893,3618,1911,1913,3617,1896,1914,1672,91,1447,1892,1897,1909,149,28],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocarchive","tag-alex-rose","tag-bill-laughridge","tag-colt-single-action-army","tag-dick-williams","tag-dr-jack-atwater","tag-gary-paul-johnston","tag-gene-evil-roy-pearcey","tag-george-harris","tag-gun-stories","tag-jason-schubert","tag-jim-supica","tag-joe-mantegna","tag-ken-hackathorn","tag-larry-potterfield","tag-philip-shreier","tag-ross-seyfried","tag-samuel-colt","tag-stephen-hunter","tag-ted-nugent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}