....and reloading a SAA from a pouch rather than belt loops

@@TheWolfsnack Honestly reloading a pistol is only ever a thing when long guns are not in play. A black power .44-.45 pistol really has no range advantage over a double barrel shotgun. Which if set up properly has a higher rate of fire on top of the far more deadly cartridge. And if a Evans repeater is in play with 28 rounds in the magazine. I certainly wouldn't not want to be the guy with the five shot pistol.

@@alt5494 During the Civil War there was a Texas cavalry unit that was armed with two short barreled, double barreled shotguns. I would not want to be on the receiving end of a charge from that unit.

@@barttorbert5031 Two guns is nice, but what you really want is auto ejectors, and cock on close hammers on your double barrel shotgun. If you're fast over twelve shells on target a minute!

Oh, yeah! Gunfights must have been rather slow affairs back in the day

Thank you!

@@InrangeTv A big +1 on this from another Brit. Fascinating stuff, presented in a very entertaining way. British Muzzleloaders is probably the only other channel doing anything roughly comparable. This kind of practical testing of period equipment is the thing you do best. Thank you for all you do!

exactly!

Right on!

I believe its called Puttee. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttee

​@@memepizza37No, those were entirely different things altogether, not even slightly similar. Puttees were not sandals, they were not even a type of footwear. Rather its a type of cloth binding worn to support your legs and ankles , the equivalent of gaiters or compression pants.

The kit and overview of it really does help give context to what was simply the fashion of the time and what were ongoing refinements, like the cartridge box vs belt loop bit

Wow, thanks!

@@InrangeTv by far some of my favorite content how you tell these stories is amazing I know you've heard it a million times. Better than anything that's been on TV for probably honestly the last decade you such a great job I can't even explain it how great they are. Truly from bottom of my heart I appreciate all the hard work you put into it for us. I'm partially disabled some more or less housebound could be very depressing your videos all of them get so into them I forget about all of it so great thank you

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for listening

Thank you kindly!

Yup, US cavalry didn’t really have the same system of dragoon vs cuirassier because we never really had widespread and common linear warfare that would need heavy cavalry to break lines, so light cavalry like dragoons was all we ever really used

See me comment about the flip-flops the US Army did relative to dragoons vs. cavalry.

I think I need a pair of them

One of two things must have happened: Either some prissy white people decided that they needed to be offended on behalf of the Apaches, because Apaches clearly can't take care of themselves (love the hypocrisy there), or someone pushed the board to change so they could get the contract to make the new logos. Or maybe both. Fascinates me how often greed and political correctness seem to go hand in hand as it is always very well-to-do people who insist on telling me how I need to change how I live and think. Still, awesome that your team was able to get some firsthand learning themselves, because it is entirely possible one day that the only visual record of the Spirit Dance is some old VHS of your high school team showing it off. Indeed, it is a tragic reality that much of our knowledge of "Indigenous People" comes from white people who took the time to describe it rather than the Indigenous people themselves because people don't always realize how much of their culture fades away while they are busy trying to make a living.

@@genericpersonx333 Being a prissy white person in a prissy white people style community myself (I'm fairly liberal, in a very liberal area), I don't think we would have been offended had we known the school was actively trying to learn about the culture they were named after. That's the sort of thing that makes us giddy. That being said, I can absolutely see us being ignorant enough to not know that and see offense where only respect had been intended. I can also see the second option equally being a thing. From what I can remember of school (late 90s through the 00's), the only things about Native society that we were taught outside of history class was a few guest speakers, and some society gatherings that took place at our school. But all of those things were only at my elementary school, (late 90s, early 00's). I kind of find it a shame we didn't have content like this to learn about.

Apache Wars. Interesting. Will go on the list.

I hear that once in awhile.

I appreciate that!

The last movie I ever expected to see referenced in a KZfaq comment

Oops, got the hands wrong way round, sorry!

I noticed that too. Even though I believe that Karl's manipulation was the most commonly used, Kevin was pulling ammo from the cartridge box on his left side so his movements would be better for that. I did find that Kevin's manipulation of the Trapdoor action also varried between shoot positions in ways to conserve his motions as one would study inorder to save time on the clock. I am curious about the accuracy of Kevin's gear, not sure I've seen pictures of troopers with both a Mills' belt and the cartridge box, seems like it might be more likely one or the other and of course he may have changed things up a bit for a competitive edge as we are are likely to do within the confines of a rule set. In any case a great study of the time period.

Weirdly enough like the Star Wars Battlefront remakes? Where "reloading" (venting heat) allows you to time a button press to a spot to shorten the reload time, but if you miss it it takes longer, if you press nothing it reloads as well, but at a more moderate speed.

@@justalurker3489 I think it was Gears of War that started that. I was thinking something even more involved, like doing it for each individual cartridge or each individual tap of the ram rod.

@@jacobstaten2366 That might get too "Surgeon Simulator" for it to feel like you aren't fighting the controls

@@justalurker3489 it would give you something to do instead of just cussing at the character for not doing it faster than you could in real life. It doesn't have to be super complicated, just enough to make you plan your shots more.