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8 unusual facts about Colt


9×23mm Winchester

Pistols produced by Colt for a short period were not strengthened in any obvious way relative to their .45 ACP equivalent.

Colt Defense

The company traces its portfolio of products and services back to Colt's Manufacturing Company and prior to that to Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, and through those entities and its current structure, it has supplied small arms weapons systems to the United States Government and other governments throughout the world since the Mexican-American War of 1847.

Colt, Arkansas

L. Clover - Missionary Baptist pastor of New Prospect congregation in Colt prior to 1948; founder in 1952 of Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary in Minden, Louisiana.

George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping

He submitted to arrest without resistance, and a .45 caliber Colt automatic pistol was removed from his person.

National Arms Company

National Arms produced about 30,000 of the Caliber .32 Teat-fire revolvers from 1864 to 1870, when it was acquired by Colt's Manufacturing Company.

Starr revolver

A Starr revolver (Starr DA) is a double-action revolver which was briefly used in the western theater of the American Civil War until the U.S. Ordnance Department persuaded the Starr Arms Co. to create a single-action variant after discontinuation of the Colt.

William B. Franklin

Following the Civil War, General Franklin relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, and became the Vice-president of the Colt Firearms Manufacturing Company until 1888, as well as a director on the boards of several manufacturing concerns.

Woolaroc

Woolaroc is also a museum with a collection of western art and artifacts, American Indian material, and one of the largest collections of Colt firearms in the world.


.45 Black Powder Magnum

Two examples of the exception to this rule are the Colt Walker and the Taurus Judge.

1962 Houston Colt .45s season

September 11, 1961: Rusty Staub was signed as an amateur free agent by the Colt .45's.

Ace Marine

At age two, the colt won two races and was a strong third to the then world-record-holding sprinter Boston Doge in the Newport Stakes at Narragansett Race Track in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Advanced Colt Carbine-Monolithic

The Colt's Manufacturing Company Advanced Colt Carbine-Monolithic is an improved version of the M4 carbine presented to the United States military at a conference as a possible replacement for the M16 rifle and M4 carbine within the military.

Button car plan

Other approaches included the Ford Courier and Mazda B-Series utilities utilising Mitsubishi's 2.6-litre Astron four-cylinder engine, and a proposal to replace Mitsubishi's locally built Colt with a rebadged Toyota Corolla.

Canonero II

Bred by Edward B. Benjamin in Greensboro, North Carolina, the bay colt was born with a noticeably crooked foreleg, and as such was considered to have no future in racing.

Charles Hugh Alison

Another endearing Colt-Alison design is Century Country Club (1927) in Purchase, New York.

Chuck Versus the First Date

Chuck manages to bluff Colt into thinking they are surrounded using a Call of Duty battle plan developed by Morgan earlier in the day, "confirmed" by Morgan himself after Colt allows Chuck to make a call.

Colt baronets

The Colt family descended from Thomas Colt, of Essex and Suffolk, Keeper of the Rolls of Chancery in Ireland and a member of Edward IV's Privy Council.

Colt Defense

Colt was the original producer of the M16 rifle, rights to which it purchased from designer ArmaLite, and today offers a complete “Family of Weapons” based around the derivative M4 Carbine, which includes a heavy barreled rifle (HBAR®), a carbine with sliding stock (M4 & ACC-M), a personal defense weapon with folding-collapsible buttstock (SCW), a piston carbine (APC), a Commando® M4 with a 10.5 in.

Colt Diamondback

The Spy from Team Fortress 2 appears to use the Colt Diamondback as his primary handgun.

Colt State Park

The marble gates of the main entrance, modeled after the approach to the Petit Trianon at Versailles and unveiled in 1913, bear an inscription: "Colt Farm, Private Property, Public Welcome." A pair of life size bull statues, named Conrad and Pomeroy, guard the gate to the park.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

The weapons are colored a bit differently from their Counter-Strike counterparts, such as the Arctic Warfare Magnum which is now brown instead of green, the Steyr AUG and the Colt M4 carbine are now two-tone police black instead of the usual colors.

Cricket Records

Among established name artists to appear on Cricket were Gene Autry, William Bendix, Smiley Burnette, Bobby Colt, Dennis Day, Eddie Dean, Leif Erickson, Ray Heatherton, Boris Karloff, Maury Laws, Gisele MacKenzie, Norman Rose and David Wayne.

Dancer's Image

Eventually his owners sold the colt and in 1974 he was sent to breeders in Ireland then in 1979 to Haras du Quesnay at Deauville, France owned by renowned breeder Alec Head.

Daniel Leavitt

Dickerson may have been smarting from confrontations in the U.S. District Court battle, which turned into a jousting match between two of the foremost attorneys of the day: Dickerson representing Colt; and Rufus Choate representing the Massachusetts Arms Company.

Don Buddin

He was traded that offseason to the expansion Colt .45s for fellow shortstop Eddie Bressoud.

Eldon Nelson

On February 28, 1949 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida he rode Calumet's future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame colt Coaltown to a win that equalled the world record of 1:47 3/5 for a mile-and-an-eighth on dirt.

Ernie and the Emperors

In 1969 Ernie Joseph changed his musical direction with the driving rock Confusion album, teaming up with brothers "Ruben the Jet" (Brian Faith), Cory (Cory Colt), and drummer Steve Dunwoodie (Stevie D), to tour the southeastern states as Big Brother Ernie Joseph, a tour that included the Love Valley Music Festival near Greensboro, NC).

Gainesway Farm

At the Saratoga Yearling sales in August, Gainesway had a sales topper with a chestnut Mr. Greeley colt that sold for $2.2 million to Team Valor and will be syndicated.

Galtee More

Gubbins named the colt after Galtymore (Cnoc Mór na nGaibhlte), a mountain on the border of Limerick and County Tipperary.

Gay Mecene

The colt bypassed the Arc, which the Head stable won with Three Troikas, and was instead sent to Germany for the Preis von Europa at Cologne-Weidenpesch Racecourse.

Great Western Arms Company

In 1954, Wilson founded the Great Western Arms Company with financial backing from a doctor and 2 NFL Football players: Dan Reeves and Dan Fortmann to produce an almost-exact clone of the old Colt SAA for television and movie westerns.

Groupie Doll

She finished second to the Grade I winning colt Boys At Tosconanova in a one mile allowance race in January, third to Awesome Maria and Royal Delta in the Grade III Sabin Stakes in February and third behind Musical Romance in the Group II Inside Information Stakes in March.

Gunsmoke Western

Issue #35 (June 1956) introduced the backup feature "Wyatt Earp", starring a version of the real-life lawman, for two issues before back-up features were dropped in favor of Kid Colt plus standalone stories.

HNoMS Nordkapp

(76 mm) Armstrong Whitworth main gun
1 × 20 mm Oerlikon
4 × 12.7 mm Colt Browning
AA machine guns
12 × depth charges in two rows

J. Larry Jones

Jones trained at principally at Ellis Park Racecourse in Henderson, Kentucky, and at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas, before coming into national prominence in 2007 with the front-running bay colt Hard Spun.

Javier Castellano

In 2004, Javier Castellano got his big break when he was the rider for Frank Stronach's colt Ghostzapper on whom he won several major races including the 2004 Breeders' Cup Classic.

Kid Colt

Kid Colt (real name: Elric Freedom Whitemane) is a contemporary superhero character in the Marvel Comics universe who has appeared as a member of the modern-day Young Allies.

Some of Kid Colt's earliest adventures, beginning with Kid Colt Outlaw #14 (May 1951) were written and drawn by Pete Tumlinson.

Leonnatus Anteas

The three-year-old colt made his next start in the September 15 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana, finishing fourth.

Lyphard

There, his offspring included the filly Durtal (b. 1974), who won the Cheveley Park Stakes and was the 1976 United Kingdom Champion 2-Year-Old Filly, plus the colt Pharly (1974-2002), who won several important races in France, including the Group One Prix de la Forêt, Prix Lupin and Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.

Maryland State Fair

One of the most famous horses to race at Timonium was the Maryland-bred colt Bee Bee Bee who competed and won here in the fall of 1971, then in May 1972 at Pimilico Race Course, won the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes.

Mitsubishi Colt 600

Colt Runabout An early American company that produced a vehicle called the "Colt" in 1907.

National Arms Company

Colt continued to produce the .41 rimfire derringer after the acquisition as an effort to break into the metallic cartridge gun market.

Neil Gow

He sent his colt into training with Percy Peck at his stable in Exning, Suffolk.

Preakness, New Jersey

The colt Preakness, for whom the Preakness Stakes Thoroughbred horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland is named, was owned by Milton H. Sanford's Preakness Stables located at the corner of Valley Road and Preakness Avenue.

Ruger Bisley

This was in turn inspired by the classic 1894 Colt Bisley revolver, so named after the famous English shooting range at Bisley which was the site of many notable shooting matches in the late 19th century and is still in regular use.

Samuel P. Colt

A farm owned by Colt was later purchased by the state of Rhode Island, and transformed into Colt State Park.

Son of Love

In the French Free Handicap, a ranking of the best two-year-olds to race in France, he was rated thirteen pounds behind the colt Irish River and the filly Sigy.

Sundae

Supporting Ithaca's claim to be "the birthplace of the ice cream sundae", researchers at The History Center in Tompkins County, New York, provide an account of how the sundae came to be: On Sunday, April 3, 1892, in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church minister, and Chester Platt, co-owner of Platt & Colt Pharmacy, created the first historically documented sundae.

Super Impose

The chestnut colt who would become Super Impose was selected by trainer Lee Freedman at the 1986 Trentham yearling sales, in New Zealand, for a small syndicate who paid $40,000.

Tampa Bay Downs

In 2007, Hall of Fame trainer Carl Nafzger brought his 3-year-old Street Sense to Oldsmar for the Tampa Bay Derby, and the colt's victory was a springboard to his win in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular

The Brumbies are too quick for the riders and, when it becomes too steep and dangerous with Wombat holes (burrows, where a horse could break a leg), all riders stop short of the dangerous descent — apart from Jim, who continues to chase the Brumby herd - finally bringing the herd (including the colt) back to John Conroy's property.

Thomas J. Barry

Barry proved correct as the colt won the 1958 Belmont Stakes, at a mile and a half, the longest of the U.S. Triple Crown races.


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