I just bought my navy revolvers in red dead redemption and I was really curious about the live real version of reloading one of them. Great video, thank you!!

I've just gotten into black powder shooting. I've got an 1851 & 1860. .36 & .44. Your videos have been a great help! Very informative. Thank you.

When you press the ball in the cylinder you see a thin ring of lead from the ball around the cylinder opening. Thats how you know you have a non chain firing gun

The grouping at the 10 minute mark on that steel was amazing! Keep up the cool videos.

A master class - taught by a master ! Thank you sir !

Such style and confidence in the way these classic guns are handled. Good to see theres people keep this art alive

The loading and shooting videos are relaxing as well as informative. Makes me wish I could get to the range!

Thanks for the videos, Mike. I decided to make getting into cap & ball one positive thing to come out of this pandemic. Your timing couldn't have been better!

Because of some regrettable choices I made when I was younger and the current social climate, I need some good information. I found that and then some, thanks a bunch!!

I have the same weapon and I didn't really know a whole lot about it since I'm not trained on those class of weapons I couldn't be happier that all this information was in one place. I'm for sure going to find out if my weapon works now. Thank you!

Always good to watch you do a tutorial Mike!

I just bought a used pietta for 100 bucks and I think your video has convinced me that I need the 45 LC conversion 🤣

Excellent shooting! Enjoy your submissions, thanks for your efforts, always informative and entertaining.

Entertaining as well as informative. What more could a history/firearms enthusiast ask for? These videos are always enjoyable.

Great video. I’ve been shooting these for a long time and still found this informative and entertaining. You do great videos.

Thank you for doing this Mike. When I started, (many moons ago), I spent a lot of time hunting for the needed information. And, it wasn't all from a single source. 👍

Thank you for the instructions. I am new to these type firearms and have learned most everything from your channel. And you are a great shot sir.

Thank you for the information, I'm new to the black powder pistol stuff and have been considering purchasing one, you made up my mind, thank you again.

My Son bought me a couple of nice Uberti C&B revolvers a while ago. I did do the Kirst conversion on both, but left the loading lever on both revolvers (1851 & 1860). Both are great fun to shoot. Now I've recently supplied up on the accrutments needed to shoot cap and ball, so we'll give that a try. Thank you Mike for all of the great info on blackpowder firearms!

You make very nice but also informative videos. keep up the good work Buddy. love watching them.

Great overview for a beginner! Thanks!

Really enjoyed this ! I have been shooting a long time! Thanks Mike!

Thank alot for making this, very helpful and easy to understand !

I do use Crisco with Bee wax if it seems to susceptible to heat from the sun I use more Bee wax. Works just fine and have over 100 rounds throug the same pistol in one event. I have changed to multiple cylinders since. I preload 7 cylinders now 6 in my belt and one in the gun never had an isue. But you go ahead with Mutton tallow if that is what you like but I find that sort of thing just gets rancid to easy. Otherwise great video signed The "Wretch"

Great video, you finally convinced me to buy a black powder revolver. Think I'll start with the 1860 Colt.

Also appreciate the plug for CapandBall - charming & knowledgeable guy, I also have his cartridge kit and reproduction cartridge boxes.

Thank you for educating me. I was gifted this exact firearm for Christmas and wanted to be sure that I loaded it properly. (I am lacking the grease that I was told helps stop chain fire and am confident that it is safe to discharge without it but will acquire it to be sure it is properly loaded.)

New to black powder so I enjoy your videos, very helpful.

Another Simple and Informative Video! I Found " Cap and Ball" Just before Discovering Your Channel! So Much to Absorb but Simple Basic Explanations! Thank You for Sharing All Your Knowledge With us Newbies!

As usual excellent practical easy to follow information. Thank you Mike for all the work you do yor are very much appreciated by real old time Gun Powder (like it says on DuPont cans) shooters. .

Just recieved my .44 cartridge former from cap and ball makes a nice easy job. Just loaded up ready 30 paper cartridges so far, love your channel.

Great video. Definitely a labor of love. I want to get into BP but Goex is now gone. I'll keep shooting my SAA in 45 Colt with my reloads. Fun gun.

I was taught to cap off each nipple once first before loading to dry out the oil and help prevent misfires. I've found that cabelas brand lubed felt wads work great between the powder and ball and in my experience a lighter powder load tends to make the cylinder rotate better and not seize up after 6 shots like a 15 grain load in .36 and a 25 grain load in a .44 colt style repros. Plus with colt repros after the first shot rotate the piece to a 45 degree right angle and cock the hammer on that angle and keep an eye on the hammer and back of the receiver to make sure no cap swallowing happens. Do that every shot after the first shot. Doing that I've never had a cap get swallowed and I've shot thousands of shots out of colt repros

Mr. Mike that is impressive because I happen to know from watching your other videos that each of those bullets striking a different place like the round balls probably hit closer to your sights the conicals and the conicals in the paper cartridges I think if I remember shoot low and you hitting those plates awesome you're really quite knowledgeable fellow thank you for sharing it Joe security Oklahoma

Paul Harrell has proven that an oversized ball does NOT stop chainfires. The over ball wad or grease stops it.

I've been making my own lube and wads ever since you first posted your homemade wad video. They work very well and the lamb tallow/beeswax mixture works great. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the video. Found the bit about paper cartridges especially interesting.

Genau was ich gesucht habe. Danke für das Video

Very informative, and snappy outfit to boot.

This is a great idea to have this as a stand alone video. Coupled with the gear for loading cap n ball this is great for someone who just wants a primer (pun intended) on how to get started

I have some convenience (at least for me) when it comes to lubricating the chambers. This works well with your own beeswax grease. After mixing the ingredients and cooling them, I form balls with my fingers, maybe 2/3, sometimes 1/2 the size of the ball I am loading. I keep it in RWS1081 cap boxes or a similar size, they hold about 70 grease balls. I don't have to take any spatula, knife, etc. I just take a ball of grease and either use my index finger or thumb to press it into the loaded chamber. You have to play a bit at home with preparing the BBs, but it actually saves a lot of time at the shooting range.

Kudos for this. I am a new black powder shooter and appreciate you guidance.

Amazingly helpful!! Thank you!

Pre-load Multiple Cylinders and 1858 Remington. Great channel. Had the same problem using lard trying 1860s research, fowling the cylinder in extreme heat. Add some candle wax to lard.

Great video Mike

Well damn! Loading them up is a lot simpler than I thought! Thanks for the info.

Just found you and thank goodness…I have an old Italian black powder .44 and this video is gospel.

Great video! Thanks Mike!

Much appreciated. I had been using Bore Butter on top of the ball and it is seriously messy to handle. (Probably going to stick with pre-lubed patches. Life is short.) Particularly helpful - seating the caps. I get a bit nervous about setting them off, and I am not going to get them down with my thumb or the capper. The dowel looks like the best option.

Just bought my first 1851 navy .44 glad this was around or I would have bought a bunch more than I needed for it.

Great for a newbie. Good video Mike.

By the way. Your channel is by far the best cap and ball out there .. I understand giving credit where its due but facts are facts. Thanks

Absolutely amazing video. your an amazing shot.

thanks very much for sharing the info. i'm a new black powder shooter indeed, (got a few SA,s) nothing beats a visual demo. best regards ! Michel Morin

Thank you so much for the video. Great info.

Thank you so much for these videos if it wasn't for guys like you us new guys wouldn't know what to do when it comes to black powder.

Thank you for sharing this video. Sadly, England, my birth nation, has virtually killed off shooting as a pass time due to a series of knee - jerk reactions to criminal shootings by successive governments. Luckily, I live in France which has far more sensible gun laws! I eagerly await delivery of my new Pietta - Remington .44 Sherrif next week. In the meantime, your videos tell me all I need to know! Thanks again.

Nice video! I have an 1800s something Pietta replica navy colt revolver (.44 caliber, not sure if they have different calibers back then) I received as a gift from my grandpa and grandma, and I’ve always wanted to learn how to load and fire it, this video helps tremendously and hopefully I can acquire the items to load it sometime soon, should make an interesting show for my family’s 4th of July lol.

Excellent, comprehensive view of both loose ball and paper cartridge use. The lubed wads keep your bore bright the entire shooting session. Using a revolver loading stand at the range keeps the muzzle pointing up and speeds the process considerably. The best part is, these old revolvers will out-shoot most of the black plastic pistols accuracy-wise, but of course sort of suck for concealed carry. Love watching you shoot!

Thank you sir , very educational !!

I missed your Videos Sir! Thanks for sharing

Nice man. You're a good guy. I think I'll subscribe.

Thats really cool. Thanks for the lesson.

Great video mike!

Great vid!!

Wow awesome that packs a punch

Very informative video. You know your stuff and are a darn good shot. The one thing I'd add, being a 51 shooter myself, is to roll the gun up when you cock the hammer for shots 2-6. I've had pieces of busted cap get into the darndest spots in my gun and bind it up tighter than Dicks hat band. Muzzle up while cocking let's gravity make the pieces fall free.

Have to add to other comment, Seen yea do it many, many times But I guess, I just enjoy it, wishing I was loading my 1851 or Hawkins rifle. Thanks Keep up the good work.

Nice Advice Mike Thanks 😀😊👍🏼

I just got a Uberti Walker and now I'm hooked.

This will be seen a ton a times by new people for reference. I, like you are have done this for years. Hopefully a bunch of new BP shooters.

Great group with those conicals!

The group with the conical bullet was pretty damn tight for a gun with such crappy sights. Nice shooting

Can't wait for an episode that shows new shooters that BP Substitutes are also loaded by Volume even though they don't scale weigh the same as BP. I think that screws with more new BP shooters than anything. (In areas that can't seem to get real BP)

Thx you for sharing 🙏

Nice work Mike! You took good care of Evil Roy and his Circle Gang! LOL!

I loved shooting Cap n ball revolvers when I was younger. Then I discovered how easy reloading ammo was and bought a cimarron model p. No more loose powder and ball and no more of those infuriating cap jams!

hell yeah thanks for this informative video cowboy santa

I just ordered 1851 Navy 44 - 5 1/2 and 1851 Colt Navy 36 - 7 1/2 revolvers, doing searches for everything else I need, so far the only thing I can't find is the 44 ball ammo. thanks for the video

You really had to make every shot count back then. Reloading takes time. Cool guns though. Just bought the army 1858 .44 cal.

Excellent continuez comme ça

Great video!

Great channel

thank you for the education my first time revolver C&B i soot BP percussion every day cant wait to shoot my 2 pistols ( 1861

I have my shoot outfit, I have pouches with simple belt clips, the flasks too. I can bring the various pouches from my shoot bag, hang them on my belt, get at them easily. While standing, draw pistol, flask charge, ball in, oiler (DGW nickel silver w/dauber), caps. I can do this quite easily. I return the pouches that were hanging from my belt, back to the shoot bag. I have 5 different caps sizes. Pouches with the various cap sizes are all labelled with a little tab with,- R10 etc. Proper cap size eleviates having to 'dowell' seat. Also cap jams are greatly reduced. Pinching can cause other troubles,- Chain fire, cap failure, cap jam ,.

Thank you great video

Mike, I live in Charleston, WV. many years ago I dabbled in black powder shooting. I have remained very active in shooting, but not black powder since then. I’ve been looking around and nobody, and I mean NOBODY, carries black powder anymore. I’m sure you may have covered it at some time, but, you might consider covering the Differences between Pyrodex and all the many other brands of black powder substitutes

There's a gun shop in Chattanooga that I go to sometimes just to look around. Well they have to cap and ball 44 revolvers. They are both of yous but appear to be in good condition. This man was in a Cowboys tournament for many years and I think he died and his relatives sold a bunch of his guns. I need to learn how to take it completely apart so I can look inside of the gun. I really want to learn how to do this. Both guns are made in Italy. I really want to learn how to do this. I can take apart and shoot almost any gun on the plants but I've never done this and I think it would be fun I want to learn how to do the paper cartridges because I think it would be a lot faster on the Range.

great video, i bet most chain fires are from burrs on chamber mouth from careless loading or dropping it. The burr carves a furrow in the lead ball on the way in, making a path

I always use a felt wad between the powder and ball, then place a special grease wad over the ball. Both for lube and preventing chain-fires. All three of my blackpowder revolvers are .44 cal, but I found that my Uberti Colt Walker is more accurate with .454 balls, while my CVA 1851 and Pietta 1860 Army perform better with .451

Great video

Perfect, thanks.

nice, so I don't need both lube and wads but one or the other, great! I've seen some puts both.

Hi Mike, I've had a fondness for cap and ball revolvers ever since the first time I saw them in a Cabela's mag when I was a kid and your vids have kept that interest stoked. I finally started putting together the kit for one based on these videos and have rounded up pretty much everything sans percussion caps, which seem to have gone the way of the 9mm. Since I am new to BP I have a couple questions I was hoping you might address. Is it common to run into fouling issues during a range session? If so can easily you field clean the revolver to keep it in action? Also would it be possible to put together a video in this series addressing common problems and how to troubleshoot them? Thanks!

This revolver feels like a pain in the ass to reload mid-fight. Imagine thinking you managed to kill the person youre fighting while theyre behind cover and coming up around the corner only to see them frantically trying to reload it

thanks great video for a newbie like me

Great video thanks and God bless

Wagh! Shoulda used a Walker. Shoulda used 2 Walkers! Then fill both hands and show them how to dual wield. But then you would have had dropping loading levers to deal with, hehe. I like capnball. He is the only guy I ever seen shoot a genuine Colt ( not a replica ) cap and ball revolver, on KZfaq or anywhere else.

Nice 1851 Navy in this video. Looks like an Uberti. I have the same one. The chambers for this gun are not too large for .375 balls, but they are not small enough to shave a large ring off the ball either. The ball does fit tight though and the chambers taper down to .372/.373 and that is just enough to provide a good seal while still making for very easy loading. You could have problems if you use wads and they are too thick. I never use them though. I like the lube better. The .380 size, in addition to being harder to find, is also just a bit too large for the Uberti 1851, in my opinion, and I have heard of people eventually damaging their rammer trying to shave off the lead and putting too much stress on the loading lever. I might try making paper cartridges. Not sure how good it will go but it doesn't look too hard to do if you have a cartridge former. Looks like it shaves off a bit of time reloading. As long as the glue holds good it should work fine if the right paper is used.

I would love if you could do like a beginners video. Like washing then tuning and how to shoot it all of that even making the lube. I think that would be awesome it could be one long video or 2 parts