{"id":98395,"date":"2020-10-21T08:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=98395"},"modified":"2020-10-21T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:06:38","slug":"smith-wessons-seven-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/smith-wessons-seven-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith and Wesson&#8217;s Seven-Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98396 size-full\" title=\"1860 ad in Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper for Smith and Wesson\u2019s Seven-Shooter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/seven-shooter.jpg\" alt=\"1860 ad in Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper for Smith and Wesson\u2019s Seven-Shooter\" width=\"461\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/seven-shooter.jpg 461w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/seven-shooter-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/seven-shooter-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Californian FB; font-size: small;\">1860 ad in Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated Newspaper for Smith and Wesson&#8217;s Seven-Shooter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Smith &amp; Wesson Model 1 was the first firearm manufactured by Smith &amp; Wesson, with production spanning the years 1857 through 1882. It was the first commercially successful revolver to use rimfire cartridges instead of loose powder, musket ball, and percussion caps. It is a single-action, tip-up revolver holding seven .22 Short black powder cartridges. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_1\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-98401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/640px-Smith__Wesson_Model_1_2nd_Issue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/640px-Smith__Wesson_Model_1_2nd_Issue.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/640px-Smith__Wesson_Model_1_2nd_Issue-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>image by Mikehelms &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=26980450\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=26980450<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1860 ad in Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated Newspaper for Smith and Wesson&#8217;s Seven-Shooter The Smith &amp; Wesson Model 1 was the first firearm manufactured by Smith &amp; Wesson, with production spanning the years 1857 through 1882. It was the first commercially successful revolver to use rimfire cartridges instead of loose powder, musket ball, and percussion caps. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-frank-leslies-illustrated-newspaper"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}