A little over fifty years ago my sister always carried a pocket model of navy caliber as her go to pistol. She was scary accurate with it up to 25 or 30 yards.

@@cyclonetaylor7838 Wow. Your sister was an interesting eccentric by the sound of it.

Some people can’t have guns but in most states a BP gun is considered an antique and not a gun unless it’s used in a crime. (Being a felon, or otherwise prohibited possibly because of state or county laws and of course occasionally that’s the only gun they can afford or already own).

@@cyclonetaylor7838 That's cool. Sometimes I carry my '49 in my coat pocket. It's a regular five shot, 4" barrel, made in 1871. Still works like a charm.

@@danielaramburo7648 That is survivorship bias. Lots of guns broke back then. We only see the well made ones that have survived today.

The notches on his pistol numbered eleven, because there wasn't space for any more.

@@AshleyPomeroy (because there wasn't space for any mooooOOOOOOreee.)

@@warweasel2832 Oh he might've went on livin', but he made one fatal slip, when he tried to match the ranger with the Small Iron in his breast pocket

@@janwacawik7432 (small iron in his breast pockeeeeett)

@@BonsaiBrandy small iron, small iron. When he tried to match the ranger with the small iron in his breast pockeeeetttt....

A hat is very important for survival.

+History and coffee I lived in Phoenix AZ for 20 years (1980's to early 2000's). Loved to prospect the AZ deserts! I had a carry permit and several revolvers and autos in 9mm/38/357 and 45 ACP to carry. However, when roaming the AZ deserts prospecting for a week or so, I carried a Uberti replica of the Remington Army .44 cap&ball revolver in a flap holster. Loaded with 220 grain concials over Swiss FFFg black, powder the .44 Army actually hit harder and penetrated deeper than my 45 ACP autos! Never felt the least bit vulnerable with that big Remington hanging on the side, and was totally confident the gun would do anything I needed. Some of my favorite times! Thinking about waking up just before sunrise to those unique smells of the desert gives me the wanderlust to head back out West again!

@@63DW89A well, with social distancing, you could say it's your civic duty to run off to the desert for a week! Y'know, for safety.

I go panning for gold wearing nothing but my overalls and a old ratty straw hat but, in my front pocket I keep a Bulgarian Makarov... some things gotta change

@@henryrodgers7386 Tried to give you 100+ likes on that, but YT only allows one.

@J H When I was in junior high- around 1962- a kid brought in a 1917 Colt for show and tell. Another brought his grandfather's switchblade. Big, solid thing- kind of like a Buck 110. I never saw another like it.

@RadBaeron I carried a utility knife "Boy Scout Knife" from kindergarten through graduation of high school. Always using it- fixing the typewriter, loose screws on somebody's desk, etc.

@RadBaeron slingshots are a felony in New Jersey. 10,000 fine and/or 2 years in jail

@@JohnSmith-hd2tl Don't you mean the days of legally bringing a gun to school are over? The more felonious little miscreants still manage to smuggle them in all the time these days.

@Matt now you're just being full of shit. Philando Castile was high on illegal drugs, driving under the influence of illegal drugs, in possession of illegal drugs, carrying his gun half hanging out of his pocket and not concealed as is required to meet the legality of a concealed carry permit. Which by the way, no proof of him actually being a legal Minnesota CCW permit holder was ever offered, just some vague excuses about his permit being issued in a different "location", (as in a non-reciprocity to MN State) and now he somehow wasn't appearing on the list of valid Minnesota carry permit holders. All of these conditions rendered his carry permit moot under the law. Additionally, he was pulled over because he matched the somewhat unique description of an armed robbery suspect from the night before in that local area. His social media postings showed him involved in street gang activity as well. The NRA and actual law abiding gun owners and lawful concealed carry permit holders are under no obligation to profess support for someone who was engaged in misdemeanor criminal activity at best and quite possibly felony violent crime as well. Philando Castile made several bad decisions that lead to his unfortunate death that day and none of them involved his racial identity. That many of us waited for answers that never came to questions about his behavior and activities before offering support also had nothing to do with his race. His dubious CCW legal status, possible criminal activity, actual criminal activity, and the all too common reckless claims of racial bias offered in lieu of what should have been easily answered questions left many people unwilling to blindly support Castile.

Absolutely. I know objectively that Remingtons are better in every way, but damn the open tops are sexy.

I'll take a Colt over a Remington any day

I guess a lot of people got tired of picking shrapnel out of their hands after loading in too much powder.

Some people do have thick skulls though.

The Truth is in1850, it was made illegal to for horses to own fire arms after the Great Horse war of 1849. The US almost lost the war but once we cut off the salt supply lines to the Horse horde it forced them to surrender.

@@boomermoose ha ha ha ha!

@@boomermoose Lord knows if the Australian Emus had joined them, we might have had a very different outcome.

@@SlavicCelery We bought them off. Emu mercenaries were vital in our Victory. It is why we did not help Australia. Long standing treaties.

And in both pockets and his boot.

Smol brass on his waist

I've read that moulding bullets can be quite relaxing for some. I'd be too worried about spilling molten lead on myself, which in the 1800s could lead to a pretty nasty infection. Proper antibiotics weren't invented until 1928.

That is actually.

My friend had no carpet when he & his family moved into new digs. Since rug rats would, for the foreseeable future, have no rugs they were dubbed Linoleum Lizards.

The original Colt won't. Most factory pietta and uberti will. A better spring and a file will solve it, though.

@@randymagnum143 Ahhhh so its been a repo thing all along... Kinda like "cap sucking"..

Indeed. Peritonitis is a hellish way to die. Aaron Burr did that to Alexander Hamilton during their duel. Burr supposedly insisted on dueling pistols with set triggers. Hamilton accidentally discharged his firearm as he was bringing it down, because of the light trigger. Burr then took a long time aiming, and shot Hamilton in the gut. Truth be told, both of them were absolute bastards.

I don't think infection will decide to save you by instantly killing the guy you shot, but yeah, not to mention lead poisoning

I picture a gambler broke and destitute....

you got to know when to hold them know when to fold them

@@shatbad2960 yea except back then when you lost you followed the winner out of the saloon and aired them out and took all the winnings

You either nickel plate or gold inlay. Never both. Both is too much (and muddles the looks of the gun).

I honestly wish that guns were more pretty these days. Look at Glocks, they're just plastic boxes.

Me: My English vocabulary is very large. Ian McCollum: These were svelte guns. Me: 😵

Yeah, your other options were single shot pistols or a clunky pepperbox.

True but cartridge ammunition was intially expensive, and fincky with supply. Black powder percussion caps and lead could be found most places alot cheaper,sowhy be an Early Adopter?

Colt's London Factory was only open 1853-56. Colt's made c.40,000 revolvers, mostly 1851 Navys. With nearly half of those being bought by the RN and British Army during the Crimean War.

They used the arbor aka the centre pin the cylinder rotates around; when you unscrew the barrel assembly to take the cylinder out you use the end of the arbor to seat the ball.

The spindle that the cylinder rotates on was used to seat the ball.

Oh, it was definitely a pain if you got into trouble that just drawing the pistol couldn't stop. But wearing multiple guns was an old tradition by then.

Absolutely possible, generally safe if in good condition, practicality however... no. You'd be better off beating up a cheaper reproduction than shaving value off an antique by regular shooting. Practicality in a self defence sense? It wouldn't be my first choice but a BP .31 at close range WILL f*ck up someone's day.

Found a few pictures, but nothing else, and yeah, that... raises so many questions.

I've seen .32 Smith and Wesson conversions before.

It’s as old as the guns. The grease softens the fouling and keeps the rifling from shaving lead off the projectile during firing. Nowadays we use copper jackets to accomplish the same thing.

Or was it the back-up to the back-up? He carried so many that I lost track. 😀

@@ephraimgarrett4727 LOL...true 'nuff