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Old March 8, 2013, 08:08 PM   #20
Lucas McCain
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The Schofield got it name because general Schofield, a cavalry commander, helped design a pistol that was friendly to the cavalry soldier. When the govt issue was cap and ball they carried extra cylinders. When the 1873 came about the unloading operation using the ejector rod required 2 hands and the reload wasn't easy either.
S & W Schofield could be unloaded easily with one hand and a flick of the wrist and loading didn't require turning the cyl. just drop the cartridges in and close. They did have two faults, The latch on the Schofield would come undone when the pistol was holstered. When it was removed from the holster it would fall open and spill the cartridges, NOT GOOD. This was solved with the Model 3 design with a new style latch. And the Schofield all but died.
The second was the ammunition and the logistics. If fort had all S & W's but on occasion the quartermaster issued Colt ammunition which couldn't be used in the S & W pistols. Put that with politics and they lost out to Colt.
The S & W was very popular with foreign governments,especially the Russians, they bought a lot of them, actually most of them were 44 Russian caliber.
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