FM 23-36 Revolver, Colt, Caliber .45, M1917 and Revolver, Smith and Wesson, Caliber .45, M1917 1941

by: United States. War Department

Publication date: 1941-10-20

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: M1917, Pistols -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Shooting, Military, Pistol shooting, United States. -- Army -- Firearms -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Revolvers -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Colt revolver -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, Field Manual, Firearms, United States. -- Army -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, United States. Army, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, WWII, Colt revolver, Revolvers, Armed Forces

Publisher: Washington [D.C.] : U.S. GPO

Collection: wwIIarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

FM 23-36 Revolver, Colt, Caliber .45, M1917 and Revolver, Smith and Wesson, Caliber .45, M1917 1941-10-20 "The Colt revolver, caliber .45, M1917, and the Smith and Wesson revolver, caliber .45. M1917, are single shot, breech loading hand weapons. Each Is provided with a cylinder having six chambers arranged about a central axis so that six shots may be fired before reloading is necessary. Both weapons may be fired either single action or double action. Single and double action for these revolvers is described in detail in section IV."

"October 20, 1941."

Addeddate: 2012-11-12 04:21:20

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Identifier: FM23-36

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t1vd83z37

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 9.0

Openlibrary: OL25908642M

Openlibrary_edition: OL25908642M

Openlibrary_work: OL8759886W

Pages: 94

Ppi: 600

Worldcat (source edition): 20281658

Year: 1941

Full catalog record: MARCXML

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Reviewer: Colin Howell - - December 17, 2017
Subject: Great to have this manual available, but it would be nicer if a higher-resolution scan could be made.

Unfortunately, this scan was made at rather low resolution, blurring the details of the figures that show the guns' internal mechanisms.

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