[TML] NY Reload

[Lord Ronin from Q-Link]

Hoi Todd:


> 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.

 Saw it at Ft. Stevens state park with the Civil War guys doing their
trip. Personally I am a mountain man recreationist. My only revolver is
the 1832 Boston Pocket pistol. I actually don't see a fast or convient
way to do the cyclinder change.

 Presented this idea for different Tech levle worlds as a way for
rearming. Or reloading as it where.

> 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.

 I never saw it in a film or TV show. That is a new one on me. But knowing
Hollyweird, most likely it ws overdramatized and inaccurate.


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

 Yeah as a mountain man recreationist. I have to agree  with you on that
technical point.

 Brings up the question about this sort of firearm in the Traveller
Universe and how has anyone dealt with it in the past.

BCNU
Lord Ronin from Q-Link

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