Awfully obsolete at the time of acceptance but still a very interesting cavalry arm from the American Civl War. The M 1855 pistol-carbine was adopted the same year as the M1855 rifle musket. In a time when wide variety of breech loaders were already accessible, including a few firing metallic car...

Ransom rest tests of original, Uberti and Pietta 1861 Colt Navy .36 revolvers shot with repro of original service charges. Which is more accurate?

The .44 Henry rimfire cartridge was one of the first real successful self contained military cartridges. Although it was much weaker than the contemporary muzzle loading rifle rounds, it could still do the job within the normal tactical distances. The first part of the series deals with this cart...

This is something I have always wanted to try since I read Samuel Emery Chamberlain's memoires about the Mexican War. The receiver actually handled better than what I first thought, but I still have question marks about its effect.

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The first part covers the history of the development of the Hall breech loading flintlock military rifle. If you are looking for more info, please visit our Patreon page where you can find 2 studies about the rifle based mainly on primary sources describing the benefits and use of the rifle.

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Starr revolvers are one of the less recognized designs used in the US Civil War, although tens of thousands of them were made and issued. Indeed, in many ways they were superior to the much more common Colt and Remington revolvers of the period. One of the interesting facts about the Starr is tha...

Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball In this video I am using 19th century hangun testing methods to compare the original 1858 Remington New Model Army revolver to the great rival, the Colt 1860 Army. If you ever wandered which Civil War percussion revolver is better, now here...

Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here is the full version of the original Starr DA percussion revolver video about its history, service record, technical details. I hope you will enjoy it as much I enjoyed shooting this old lady!

Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here is one of the real ugly ducklings of the Civil War times. The Savage Navy is not the best looking small arm of the World, but surely has some straightforward feauters. Here is my review of this percussion revolver. Magyar szöveg: http:...

Amos Rogers and Julius Spencer ran a company making mostly farm equipment in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1859, they took on a firearms manufacturing contract (as mechanical fabrication companies often do) to make Pettengill revolvers. The Pettengill was not a fantastic design, but it was good enough ...

Please support us at https://www.patreon.com/capandball For buying Capandball Civil War cartridge boxes and cartridge formers: http://stores.ebay.com/Capandball?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 or the Capandball webpage: https://capandball.com/termekkategoria/capandball-products-2/ The Remington, Starr, Co...

Please support us: https://www.patreon.com/capandball For buying our Civil War cartridge boxes: http://stores.ebay.com/Capandball?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 An original 1858 Remington Navy meets the closest possible repro of the Colt combustible envelope cartridges of the Civil War. Please check the ...

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Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Nuts and bolts, simmilarities and differences, and shooting an original Colt 1861 Navy revolver straight from the civil war times and its modern time repro by Uberti.

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