Some people still keep calling the .45 Colt ".45 Long Colt" but there was never a .45 Long Colt or .45 Short Colt. Yes, that's still a pet peeve of mine. They're non-existent things like assault weapons. We don't like it when liberal democrats use incorrect terminology relating to guns, so why is it okay for us to do it? There is a .45 Smith & Wesson AKA .45 Schofield caliber that the army used for awhile alongside .45 Colt revolvers. Less than 9,000 Schofield revolvers were made from 1875-1878, so the .45 Smith & Wesson, or Schofield, cartridge shouldn't have been much of a problem to deal with. But .45 Long Colt is supposedly an unofficial designation some army quartermasters gave the .45 Colt, for some unknown reason. Maybe it was because you can also fire the shorter cartridge in the Colt revolvers, even though that's not what it was made for. So, if those two calibers are the .45 Long and Short Colt cartridges...
Here's a picture of a ".45 Long Colt" with a 250 grain bullet and a ".45 Short Colt" with a 230 grain bullet. I tried to match the size of the pictures before I merged them, to make the most accurate side by side comparison I could. I just realized that the ".45 Short Colt" was
really a
.45 Short & Weak and it was created 115 years before the
.40 Short & Weak.
Boom! Mind blown. I never made the connection before. And the term .45 Long Colt wasn't used to differentiate the .45 Colt from the .45 ACP as some people think. Each caliber has it's own name, and Automatic Colt Pistol, ACP or Auto doesn't sound the same as just plain COLT anyway. But even if there was a reason for some army quartermasters to use the unofficial designation, .45 Long Colt,
that reason went away in 1892 when the army quit using the ".45 Short Colt", .45 Smith & Wesson, .45 Schofield revolvers and ammo. It's been 129 years since some people in the army quit unofficially calling the .45 Colt by the wrong name. I think it's well past time for everyone else to, also.