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Auto Colt Pistol versus the Auto - is there a difference?

ACP= Automatic Centerfire Pistol. They are the same

However, they both are not the same as .45 Colt

Quite Confusing sometimes!

just to clear it up
ACP stands for Automatic Colt Pistol
45 Auto is the same
and yes
45 Colt is different

dicion wrote:However, they both are not the same as .45 Colt

Quite Confusing sometimes!

It definitely got to me at first.

Isn't .45 Colt normally named .45 Long Colt?

OldSchool wrote:
Isn't .45 Colt normally named .45 Long Colt?

The .45 Colt is exactly the same round as the .45 Long Colt.

The .45 Long Colt name was required in the late 1800's to differentiate
between the .45 Colt and the shorter .45 Schofield.

With the passing of the .45 Schofield as a popular round, the name .45 Colt
is now the most accepted name for this cartridge.

Personally, I refer to it as ".45 Long Colt"

USA1 wrote:

OldSchool wrote:
Isn't .45 Colt normally named .45 Long Colt?

The .45 Colt is exactly the same round as the .45 Long Colt.

The .45 Long Colt name was required in the late 1800's to differentiate
between the .45 Colt and the shorter .45 Schofield.

With the passing of the .45 Schofield as a popular round, the name .45 Colt
is now the most accepted name for this cartridge.

Hey, if Dale Evans could handle it,...

(sorry, been a long day)

All I know is what I see ont he box guys - .45 Auto vs .45 ACP - basically the same round, right?

.45 Auto vs .45 ACP - basically the same round, right?

Exactly the same round.


Not to be confused with 45 Colt (aka 45 Long Colt as noted above) or 45 Auto Rim, or 45 Super or .45 GAP.
:-)

Thanks

I've never actually heard of it as 45 Colt, always 45 Long Colt. You learn something every day.

I had to give this lesson to my 14 yr old 'self proclaimed gun expert' nephew at Christmas this year. His cousin (another nephew) wanted a 'cowboy style' pistol for his Christmas present from his parents. I helped his Dad pick out a nice Uberti single action in .45 LC. When the 'gun expert's' parents went to buy him some ammo for a present he told them 'Yeah, .45 is .45', and even when his Dad said he thought the rounds were not the same, he convinced him they were and they bought .45 ACP. Luckily I bought the ACP from the nephew and he went and got some LC.

I have decided if I start a business I am only going to hire teenagers as they ALWAYS know EVERYTHING!!

Glad to see someone threw .45 Auto Rim on there just to season the pot. When I saw the title I immediately thought that it would be a comparison between Auto Rim and ACP.

According to my grandmother, a Cavalry brat whose father, John Sylvanus Loud, served from the "War between the States" to the Spanish American War, although the usage "Long Colt" came into being when she was a child, the average soldier know the difference between "Colt" and "Schofield" and didn't need the "Long" appellation to further differentiate.

This thread has confused me enough, that I think I will stay away from 45's!

Teamless wrote:This thread has confused me enough, that I think I will stay away from 45's!

OK, then we need to start a discussion on 9mm (Parabellum/Luger, Kurtz, Makarov...)