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An impossible combination historically. The Winchester 1873 didn't get chambered for .45 Colt for a variety of reasons until very recently.
While both are models of 1873, the revolver is more appropriately from 1898 after being refurbished at Springfield National Armory.
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You could get away with having both chambered in .44-40. In the novel True Grit, Charles Portis describes Rooster Cogburn as having a Colt and a Winchester in the same caliber, which would presumably be .44-40.
ReplyDelete.44-40 and .38-40 were the common brace calibers for this combination historically.
DeleteModern availability of .44-40 is erratic and spotty compared to how common .45 Colt is, so I went with the anachronism.
Where did I come up with .32-40? I fixed my comment above.
Delete.32-20 was another caliber common to both the 1873 and the Colt, I believe.
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