Hopkins and Allen XL Navy
- Category
- Firearms Handguns
- Classification
- No PAL Required
- Action
- Revolver
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufacturer
- Hopkins & Allen
- Caliber
- 38 RF
- Sight
- Blade
- Capacity
- 6
- Hand
- Right Handed or Ambidextrous
.38 rimfire, single action. Action functions beautifully. Bore show some BP roughness with strong rifling 6/10
2 holes drilled into back strap apparently to accommodate period target grips.
The Hopkins & Allen XL Navy belongs to a class of large-frame, single-action revolvers built to compete directly with Colt Single Action Army and the Smith & Wesson Model 3.
Hopkins & Allen is often remembered for mass-producing small, inexpensive pocket pistols ( called "Suicide Specials" The XL series was different. It was a line of high-quality, full-sized service handguns that showed how excellent the company’s engineering could be.
Introduced in 1877 and manufactured until 1885, the large-frame "XL No. 8" - Army and Navy were a robust, solid-frame design.
