[IL] Colt Single Action Army Revolver (SAA, Peacemaker) / コルト・シングル・アクション・アーミー 回転式拳銃 (ピースメーカー)

Adopted in 1872 by the US Army, the Colt Single Action Army in .45 Colt is one of the most famous revolver designs ever made, if not the most famous. While Westerns often portray it as the most common revolver of the time and place, the high price demanded by Colt and Sam Colt's stubborn insistence on single action meant that among civilians it was more likely one would see a cheaper revolver made by a “lesser” name (possibly even imported from Europe) in .44-40 or .44 Russian (an improvement of the .44 American), if not a smaller cartridge altogether, or cartridge conversions of surplus cap and ball revolvers. It was pressed back into service later in the 1800s after its successor Colt M1892’s anemic cartridge was found to have insufficient stopping power in the Philippines, leading directly to an insistence by armament officials that their next handgun fire a .45 round capable of similar power. Despite having long been out of service, many reproductions are still made today, primarily in Italy.

Tags: es_a_a, revolver
Strength: 0.8 (becomes a contorted non-revolver shaped thing at full strength. May be able to go full weight or higher if you have some advanced tool like Mistoline controlling the shape)
Epoch: 10 (12 is prone to doing weird stuff)
Existing tags used at least once in training you’ll likely want some of: cocked hammer, holding gun, object focus, hand focus, dual wielding, trigger discipline, finger on trigger, aiming, revolver fanning, taking cover,

. Illustrious is normally rubbish at revolvers (though decent at other guns), so let’s see how it goes. Made with 6 illustrations, 10 anime screenshots, 11 live action movie screenshots, and 3 photos of just a SAA (30 total). All the live action stuff is replicas, which have a few minor external detail differences visible to a trained observer, but I don’t expect this to get good enough the slight differences in screw placement matters. Also didn’t bother controlling for barrel length.

If this works at all, I’ll do another, more modern, revolver at some point in the future.