{"id":5090,"date":"2011-04-25T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2013-08-11T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:23:19","slug":"on-cowboys-the-smith-wesson-top-break-revolver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-cowboys-the-smith-wesson-top-break-revolver\/5090\/","title":{"rendered":"On Cowboys: The Smith &#038; Wesson Top-Break Revolver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cowboys96.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5091\" title=\"cowboys96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cowboys96-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cowboys96-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cowboys96.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The competition to build a better cartridge revolver resulted in more than the gun that won the west &#8211; the Colt Single Action Army. Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson did their part in making firearms history with the creation of the top-break revolver, originally known as the Model No. 3, a six-shot revolver in .44 caliber. The very first Model No. 3 was manufactured in May of 1870 followed by variations like &#8220;The American&#8221;, &#8220;The Russian&#8221; and &#8220;The Schoefield&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Airtimes: On Outdoor Channel, 04-27-11 at 2:00PM | 04-27-11 at 9:00PM | 04-28-11 at 2:30AM, all times Eastern.<\/p>\n<p>First aired: On Outdoor Channel, Wednesday 07-28-10 at 7:00PM and 11:30PM,  Thursday 07-29-10 at 1:30AM, all times Eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competition to build a better cartridge revolver resulted in more than the gun that won the west &#8211; the Colt Single Action Army. Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson did their part in making firearms history with the creation of the top-break revolver, originally known as the Model No. 3, a six-shot revolver in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3177],"tags":[59,897,899,900,898],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cowboysarchive","tag-smith-wesson","tag-smith-wesson-american","tag-smith-wesson-russian","tag-smith-wesson-schofield","tag-top-break-revolver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","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=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}