[TML] NY Reload

[Knapp]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Bruce Johnson
<johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Tod Glenn wrote:
>
>  > 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.
>
>  Moreover, it's dangerously easy to smack the exposed caps on something
>  in the process, especially under fire, in a hurry. Then you have a
>  random cylinder going off while it's in your hands. This isn't
>  something I'd try with my Remington NMA under ideal conditions, it's
>  just not safe handling a loaded, loose cylinder that way, imo. Tod's
>  right...the solution to the reload problem was more revolvers.
>
>  --
>  Bruce Johnson
>  University of Arizona
>  College of Pharmacy
>  Information Technology Group
>
>  Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>
I was once told by a firefighter that cartages (is that the right
term? Bullet and shell?) are not very dangerous because the bullet
needs a barrel to get up to speed in. Is this the same for these guns?

-- 
Douglas E Knapp
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