[TML] NY Reload

[Tod Glenn]

>
> Well I usually shoot left handed {G}.
>
> Here is a fly to toss into this topic for game use. So far all I have
> heard is cartridge firearms. In game dealing with Tech level of a  
> world.
> We will find BLack Powder Muzzle loaders. OK that is what I primarily
> shoot. So then for a single shot is it fire, duck, roll for cover.  
> Pour
> powder, wet patch, blace ball on top, use ball starter, then ramrod,  
> place
> cap on nipple, take aim and hope the other guy is slower than you  
> {VBG}.
>
> Revolvers that are Muzzle loaded are around as well. Here there are 6
> shots, on average {I really want the 9 shot LaMatt}. Carrying extra
> cylinders was not uncommon. Reload times are still slow.  Basically  
> pop
> out the pin, don't drop it, I have, slide out empty cylinder, pocekt  
> same,
> slide in new filled cyclinder, replace pin. Hope that it is in tight
> enough. Oh yeah and hope that the cylinders are stock and not hand  
> made.
> WOn't fit in the latter case.


The ability to swap cylinders depends in large measure on the  
revolver.  You could do this with the Remington army in a reasonable  
amount of time (less than a minute) because you only had to drop the  
loading lever, and the pull the cylinder pin, allowing removal and  
replacement of the cylinder.  In the case of Colt revolvers, you had  
to hamer th frame wedge out, the hammer the frame apart - basically  
disassembling the gun.  It takes at least 5 minutes, during which you  
have to try to not lose anything.

Carrying an swapping cylinders is basically confined to the Remington  
Army model and no other contemporary civil war era cap and ball.

Contrary to TV and movies, this was probably not a common practice,  
since sales records from Remington show that very few additional  
cylinders were sold with the Army model revolver.  It was far more  
common to carry multiple revolvers.  Quantrill's men for example,  
typically carries four or more.  However, these irregular troops  
provided their own arms.  Regular line officers of both sides normally  
carries a single revolver and perhaps a dozen rounds or less.


Finally, these are not technically muzzle loaders anyway, since they  
are loaded at the cylinder.