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I've seen some people who can pop a cylinder in a Remington pretty quick this guy sucks but he has a cool belt for cylinders
I've seen some people who can pop a cylinder in a Remington pretty quick this guy sucks but he has a cool belt for cylinders
considering what the standard was at the time ?
I saw a teenager who could get off 6 shots a minute consistently with a muzzle loader, that kid was pretty awesome. Three was the bare minimum at the time. An old timer told me the best place to keep a second magazine is in a second gun.
I think they had the same philosophy, they just carried more pistols rather than to try to reload on horseback during a battle. It was a cavalry weapon, you would hold your pistol in your left hand and saber in the right and charge into the enemy. When your pistol was empty your enemy should be within saber range. Then they had the .50 horse pistols because those were intended to shoot the horses of opposing cavalry.
I thought they were called 'horse pistols' because they were so large that they had to have horses to carry them. They put the holster on the horse.
They were larger bore so you could shoot someone's mount out from under them, they would carry them on their saddles, consider how much a good cavalry horse was worth compared to how much a soldier cost.
http://civilwarhandgun.com/harper.htm