Cap and Ball Revolvers in the Wild West
Cap & Ball revolvers in the Wild West
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The thumbs-down are from folks who thought "Cap and Ball" meant a baseball video.
Probably🤣
When you think no one notices you like your own comment, lmao
Q: What was baseball like in the Old West? A: Back then, the Astros used smoke signals to tell the batter what pitch was coming next.
HA! Maybe....
Aw, that's ok. People like their own comments because they know they are being witty.
A skeleton and a +100 year old ghost asking: Too soon? XD
We are a strange lot.
Lol 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m worried about Rex. They say covid-19 is most dangerous to the elderly and me must be pushin’ 84,000,000 years! Great video, Santee!
His arms are too short to touch his face. No issues.
HAHAHAHA ROTFLMFAO!!!!! This is an absolute GREAT channel!!! Thanks always for the laughter AND the helpful information about the wild west, like I've seen I've ALWAYS been a fan of the wild west but you guys at Arizona Ghostriders, especially Santee, make it ALL THE MORE ENJOYABLE!!!! 🤠👍🤘
@@ArizonaGhostriders oh god 😂😂😂😂
"Gorillas Pistolarum Southicus" Someone really enjoyed Roadrunner cartoons when growing up.
Also, "Schuyler" is pronounced as "Sky-ler." Trust me, I grew up in Upstate New York.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher DAMN! I spent 17 years in NYC....shoulda known that. Thanks.I guess I never met a "Shuyler"
yes!
Here I thought it was said "shoe"ler.
Guess I never grew up. I still enjoy them. 73yr old.
During cap & ball era, and beyond, many utilized paper cartridges that greatly sped reloading process, eliminating need for flask and separate bullet handling. Millions of boxes of paper cartridges were used in Civil War, with the companies often employing child labor to produce them. Several good videos available on this subject. As always great video. BTW I've used surgical gloves and I'm wearing a NIOSH N95 mask while typing this, in my mountain top bunker, nearest person 6 miles away and I'm surrounded by 10,000 rolls of toilet paper. And no, I'm not hoarding, that's a 2 week supply for me since it's quite obvious what I'm so full of.
I should have mentioned paper cartridges...musta forgot. Yes, you seem to be well-prepared for...uh...whatever this is.
I would imagine the variety of paper cartridges would run the full gamut: You have tailed cartridges which serve little more than single-use carry containers (thick-walled paper cartridges where you tore the end open and poured the measure of powder in); to combustible cartridges of powder only (a precursor to today's pellets) to the all-up cartridge with a bullet affixed to the front.
era, being earned run average!
Yes, with the price of electricity in those days to keep the cartage machines running.
They also used a lot of women.
This has been my Saturday morning tradition for a couple years: Get up, make coffee, wake-up while watching Santee's new video. Gets the day off to a good start.
Awesome!!!
Same here!
Interesting how guns progressed in the years.
Yup
Best thing to wake up to! Thank you Santee!
You're welcome!
Another great video. I love my reproduction Navy Colt cap and ball revolver. The .44 really packs a punch.
Yes it does.
Thanks for sharing this video with us Santee, it was informative and interesting information about our past. On the other hand, there has been a following of the "front loaders" for many years and that group seems to be growing in popularity and numbers. Looking forward to watching your next episode. Stan
Good to hear. Thanks, Stan.
It is good to see there is someone out there that still has a sense of humor
Always.
I love you guys. I discovered this channel a few days ago and have since been watching like crazy. Thank you!
Our pleasure!
You are one of the few KZheadrs that care about their fans comments and suggestions. Thank you. Keep up the great work santee👍
You're welcome!
Oh and could you do a video on bolt action rifles in the wild west. Pls and thank you Santee😊
I really enjoy your videos about fire arms of the Old West. You really do a good job with a goodly amount of details and, as always, a good dose of humor. Your videos are always good for a hardy laugh.
Glad you like them!
Kinda like that game the Oregon trail where everyone dies of STDs and the corona virus. Good one always wanted a lemat
HA! Yes, Italians still make a LeMat. Pricey....
Fun fact, tuberculosis kills more people in three days than the Corona virus has thus far total.
Hi Santee! Yes my friend has one and we recorded a video shooting it, dressed as Confedrates, lucky just before the quarantine here in Italy, in late spring I'll release it, with english subs. It's incredible, today, I've shot a video in my basement shooting blanks with my 1858 Remington , not knowing about this video, what a coincidence! Nice video as always! Ciao Bruce from Italy!
@@Devin_Stromgren yes, but they can't go around using common sense on the news. The sheeple just wouldn't watch it that way.
@@scottsummers6357 Technically Corona has passed the threshold where my comment is no longer accurate, but it's still nowhere near 4,000+ deaths a day.
I love your guys' vids!! Always makes my day seeing this channel pop up in my notifications :)
Well, thank you very much.
Great videos guys. I'm glad I recently discovered this channel. I'm looking forward to seeing loading cap and ball for blank firing.
Good!
I guess that's one way to have a "ball! " The percussion was "deathening!" 😁
ARRGHH!
@@ArizonaGhostriders >>> An, nuts...😉
Lovely video as always Santee keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Hi Santee, my names eric wishing you and your fellow ghost riders well during these times. I’m grateful for you as a content creator. It’s really a relief to see your channel with new videos, breaks up the Boredom and keeps up morale!
Thank you so much. Bill Brazelton wants me alive...so I can get him whiskey. So, I should be ok.
Haha, well since you’re the Bill Brazelton character...then I’ll just have to be Brill Bazelton! Haha!
Thanks Santee for both the history lesson as well as the laugh. I understand this isn’t a funny situation, but laughter is the best medicine, especially when you’re self quarantined!
Yes! You're welcome!
Another good one! The last time I was in filming the director had us behind a tree and one of the effects guys was shooting at the tree with a paint gun. The paint gun had clear balls that were full of dust. On film it looks like someone is wearing our ass out shooting at us. 👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🤠
yeah, I just experienced that in December. Also got shot with one filled with fake blood.
Hey Santee! I always look forward to Saturday mornings and watching your videos! Happy Trails! Vaya con Dios!
Thank you! Have a good weekend.
Santee, great video, needed a dose of humor this morning. Glad you, Dirty Dan and Bill are all taking precautions. Good cameo appearance by Rex, better get him a mask too, don't want him to go extinct. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thank you for the info on LeMat revolver making it's way in the West. A lot of people didn't know this. That's one badass revolver.
It is an interesting one.
I really enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
I'm really enjoy some of the Black Powder guns, they were pieces of art, today they're molded, muted pieces of plastic. I hear not to fear the Corona unless you're out of limes. Another great video Santee!
HAAH! Thank you!
A correction, Santee: Casimir Lefaucheux invented the pinfire cartridge (patented in 1835). The rimfire cartridge was invented by Louis-Nicolas Flobert in 1845. Otherwise, a top-drawer slice of history, as you and your AG team always deliver.
Michael, I did say rimfire, didn't I? Shame, Santee. I'll put up a card. Thanks.
Thank you Santee , good to see you again my friend. Stay safe cowboy !
Thank you! You too.
Amazing video as always! Love you guys! Stay safe, Santee🙏🏼 🌵
Thank you! You too.
Like always Santee! You rock and love this video!
Thank you! Hope all is well in Ravenhawkville!
Close to 50K subscribers! Well done, sir. No one deserves it more.
I appreciate it.
Love the sense of humor lol, great episode mate, stay safe out there 🙂
Thank you!
@@ArizonaGhostriders +your very welcome mate 🙂
Loving it Santee, I love my cap and ball pistols :D :D Great work.
You're welcome!
Great job as always
Thank you!
This is great!! Thank you, Santee and the Arizona Ghostriders - McCandless
You're welcome!
I'm a little late, but thanks for the awsome video Santee... and all involved with the GhostRiders come to think of it.
Thank you! Much appreciated.
Thank you for making me laugh. I enjoyed this video so much. Plus as always I learned a lot. I am not a gun person. But I love teaching about the old west so much so this will help answer some of my kids questions about guns. I can share the video with them which they will love. I teach online at Outschool ( which is one of the commercials I watched while watching your video.)
So awesome! I sure try to educate in my own way. Mrs. Santee (Rita) is also a teacher. My sisters and brother as well. I sure respect what you all do.
That was a fun episode. Love me my cap and ball guns. I’ve got ten of them. I was gonna go shooting today but it’s raining/snowing here. Yeah, it’s raining/snowing on March 21st here in Idaho. Oh Boy. Thanks again amigos for a fun episode.
I know you do, Ralph!! Awesome.
Informative with a great sense of humor. Two thumbs up.
Thank You!
Thanks for starting Saturday for me in the usual fashion. :)
You're welcome!
Outstanding. Thanks Santee
Thank you!
I know I’ve several comments on several different videos, I enjoy the old west keep up the good work guys!
Thank you!
Great video as always!
Thank you!
Love the Remingtons, have several, Ball & Cap and cartridge (45 & 38/357). 🤙🏼❤️🤠
Nice!!!
Thanks for the video, love shooting cap and ball.
You're welcome! Me too. Just don't like loading them.
@@ArizonaGhostriders True, I try to think of it as the Tia Chi of shooting.
Great job Santee, I've always wanted one of those
Thank you!
Great job, I'm looking forward to your video on loading the cap and ball pistols.
In the meantime, go check out Drew's video on that if you want to know more.
Great stuff Santee !
Thank you!
Ah yes, precautions.... condoms did exist during the days of the Old West. Say.... Can we get a video on that? Pretty please.
Uh, sure. Ain't you a litte too excited about that??
Arizona Ghostriders Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha. At my age I ask, why?
@@ArizonaGhostriders _Everything_ about the Old West excites me. (That's my story, I'm sticking to it.)
@@ralphperez4862 For Educational Purposes.... Old Timer. *~_o*
Weird. But i too want a history vid on this!
It's good to know that no new frontier disease has caught my favorite people! I'm pissed, my pietta 1858 broke today. Something along the lines of the cylinder freezing completely up. However hearing you say "we can do that" makes up for my unpleasant day.
Awww, that Pietta probably just needs a spring or a hand or something. It'll live to shoot another day!
I’ve Pietta 1851 that’s done the same thing. I’ve just to find time to get going again
@@alanwhite1620 thanks Alan
Get your repair parts ahead of pandemics! 😁
Another day another great video 😁
Thank you!
Great episode!!! I own a couple cap and ball revolvers, thanks to the outlaw Jose Wales 🤣 And found trying to do the “road agent spin” with one of them hog legs is HARD! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hey, yer almost to 50,000 subs! Keep up the good work!
It's easier with the 1851 Navy, or 1860 Army. I haven't tried it with any Remington New Model Army or Navy revolvers.
Every time I try spinning my Dragoon, gravity has different plans.
Lol at the coronavirus jokes. You guys are awesome. Always the highlight of my Saturday mornings.
Thank you!
Cool video really west because I’ve just gotten into cap and ball recently and then you release a video on them
Enjoy your percussion arms!
Please do a dressing the part Calvary I have watched the channel for a long time and love you content thanks for what you do and educate people on the Wild West.😀😀
I think I did....didn't I?
I don’t know.
You knows its gonna be a good day when you see the ghost riders new video
Thank you!
Let us not forget, that another practice was to carry extra, pre-loaded cylinders in a special made belt pouch. For guns like the Remington, a cylinder swap was a faster re-load.
Well, I have not seen evidence of a pouch specially made for holding cylinders. If you have a period photo, please share the source.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Yes, I used to have period photo's that were from a book. I'm 64 now, and that was at least 40 years ago. I too, did re-enacting, and anything you used that could be questionable had to be backed up by period documentation. Can't believe you never seen them. If you research yourself (what re-enactor doesn't?), shouldn't be too difficult. I've passed my books, and gear, on to others long ago. I'm certain though, that it was confederates, possibly raiders. Anyway, here's an example, just like the ones I made myself from my research. www.oldsouthfirearms.com/customrevolvercylinderpouch.aspx Here's an ausie using them: kzhead.info/sun/Zs-qdcuhoad5qGw/bejne.html If I find the period documentation again, I'll pass it on. BlockadeRunner (store) carries reproduction versions from original patterns for Union forces. www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg10.htm I don't believe they have anything that isn't verified period. BTW....you would most often find these for "mounted" personel. I believe "issue" was for western Calvary.
I much prefer to carry a complete set of spare parts for my shootin' iron. Preferably pre-assembled and loaded with some extra ammunition.
Another good one, thanks.
You're welcome!
Hi Santee my friend. Once again I learned so much Very very interesting. Tfs and please be safe out there. Diane 🦋
Thanks, Diane. You Too.
I was disappointed to NOT see the T-rex running away from the empty shelved store with a role of toilet paper in his mouth.
HAAH!. Yeah. Maybe next week! There's still a virus out there...
Love you guys even more after this video !
Much appreciated.
Thanks for this video. I'm getting ready to play Jesse James at a local historic railroad station, here in central Pennsylvania, and I'm finding your videos very educational!!!
So great! Please, please, please...if you get photos, message them to us on FB.
Big Shoe Puppets I live in Lycoming County, where is this taking place?
@@gsdfan8455 Strasburg Railroad! They do four train robbery shows, two with the Jesse James gang and two with Bonnie & Clyde!
Big Shoe Puppets cool, hope I can check it out someday
I have an 1847 Colt Walker Dragoon revolver. Love it!
😎
Its perfect timing to put this online, because you can't hardly find a modern gun or ammunition, right now! Just about everyone, including Rex, is panic buying and hoarding supplies. 😷 From food to toilet paper, now its moved to guns and ammo! I guess all those gun haters are suddenly scared some bandittos' 🕵️♂️will steal, their hoards of toilet paper? So, learning to shot a black powder gun, may be good to know! 🤠
Yes....trying times, eh?
One quirk about percussion guns in these times is the fact that you can't unload them like you do with cartridge guns. Once you put the powder in and cram a round into the chamber, there's a quick way to unload it again and there is a safe way-- but there is no quick and safe way. If you load up a percussion gun for home defense, the only way to unload it again (without firing it into your back lawn) is to disassemble the gun, remove the nipples on the cylinder, wash the powder out in a bucket of water, then tap the round out with a brass or wooden rod. Both the powder and the lead round are ruined afterwards, so it's best to keep it loaded. But then you have to exercise the extra care knowing you have a loaded gun that can't be emptied without a ruckus.
That's all well and good for the experienced enthusiast. The fellow who thought himself clever when dropping by the local gun store after pulling Dad's old Civil War reenactment kit out of the box and loads up the revolver with live rounds isn't going to think that when he realizes that you can't just pop the unfired ammo out at the end of the day. Pouring the charge out isn't going to get all of it out, especially if you use lubricated wads, so the pail of water still comes into play in order to dissolve the nitrate out and neutralize the residual powder.
Great video. My step dad gave me an antique ball mold he had when I was a kid. Always wanted to make some balls but he never would let me do it. Being raised in Sonora & Columbia California I was always into Old West history & mining etc.
Glad to hear that. Still have an interest, it seems!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Always until the day I die. I've been a history buff since I was a kid & being raised in the Sierra's of Nothern CA with family who were ranchers, westerns & Old West history go hand in hand. Plus the added benefits of having a lot of movie & TV filming there was icing on the cake lol. Columbia & the Gold Trail through CA were my natural playgrounds all the way to adulthood. I think I climbed every rock, hill & tree around Sonora & Columbia lol. Thank you for all the great history & skits you do for your video's. It brings back a lot of memories.
My mom told me stories about my grandfather who always carry a ball and cap revolver and a muzzle loading shotgun. He been carrying soo long because him and his family were very poor farmers in Mexico. I don’t know how long? But closes I know he been carrying around the 60s and further more after he passed away in the 80s. I think of him as a modern day cowboy
That's pretty cool. Hey, if it works for that person, then it doesn't matter how old it is.
Santee, you just nailed (just like in Buster Scruggs Wagon Train segment) my SASS persona: Civil War Vet heading West in 1865! 2 C & B revolvers (44 to avoid the .375” barrels) and an 1860 Henry! And, upgradable to Conversion Revolvers and an 1866 for later periods! Thanks. Arty Redleg
You're welcome, Arty! Thanks for keeping it alive.
I love how people think in the 1800s people immediately changed to the next new thing two days after it arrived. Despite the fact that today we have much more disposable income yet we frequently use firearms technology that is from decades to a century old.
Yes. LIke cars, too.
Great one Santee. I love shooting cap and ball. I have a .45 Derringer and a .50 cal rifle.
Pretty nice. I didn't know there is a .45 ball size? Did you mean .44?
@@ArizonaGhostriders yes yes i did. Look at the brain on you. Lol
I used to work at Bonnie Springs/ Old Nevada. The stunt performers used cap and ball pistols in the shows. Lots of smoke and the reports were crowd pleasers.
Very cool. I know a few who have done it, too. They reloaded between shows.
Awesome job
Thank you!
Great video! I love Remington 1858 sheriffs model
Thank You!
Oh this was good. Love my black powder guns. Kids are scared of them, think they're going to chain fire or blow up. Thanks for another great episode.
Very cool
Great video Santee SMASHED THE THUMBS UP Have a great rest of your weekend led
Thank you!
This guy have a good sense of humor.
Thank you!
Thanks, Santee!
You're welcome!
There was people in west Virginia still using their muzzle loaders in the 60s and 70s for hunting etc.that where passed down to them.
They may still be using them. There's a whole hunting culture of flintlock shooters in America.
Thanks 🤩
You're welcome!
You Guys have entirely Too Much Fun..!
Thank You!
Thanks santee for this lovely video keep it up bro we love you . Gohst101
So nice of you. Thanks!
Ben G: "Cap and ball revolvers used in the wild west?" Santee: "yea" (Roll credits)
Yup.
I miss Benji. Takes me back to my childhood. You always insist on making those pictures sing. Why? 😂😂 Schuyler is Skyler. Great video Santee, and I hung out with LHCA during his livestream for a bit!
Thanks!
A Remington (reproduction) 1858 New Army was my first cap n ball gun. It’s a really nice gun. That was followed by 3 can n ball rifles. Good times.
Nice revolver!
Once again I never knew any of this thank you :)
Happy to help!
Loved the video. My favorite sidearm that I carried for my Confederate Cavalry reenacting was my 1851 Colt Navy. I once held Cole Youngers Starr revolver. I did not like the overall feel of it. To me it was not natural in the hand. The name you were trying to pronounce was pronounced like Shuler with the long "u". Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
Not an attractive gun, for sure. Thanks!
I've always understood it to be pronounced "skyler" as there is a Fort Schuyler in New York and it was always pronouced skyler. A Dutch-derived word I think like so many in and around New York.
Enjoyed the cap and ball video. Am part of a group called the Wyoming Widowmakers here in Laramie. I use a Walker in our shoots and it is a favorite with a lot of people.
That is really neat. Bet that Walker makes a lot of smoke. Now, do you take extra pre-loaded cylinders or reload between shows?
I love my cap and ball revolver. Perfect for the apocalypse 😂. Thanks guys. Needed a break from this weirdness.
HAHAHA! Thanks for the fun comment.
Love the new vid
Thank you!
The navy feels like it was made especially for my hand. They draw slick too!!!
Yeah!
Before I started serious reloading I bought cap and ball guns as well as a 58cal Zouave rifled musket to afford larger guns than 22's. Very accurate and had it been legal at the time would have used them for ccw.
CooL!
Santee, buddy, I wanted to thank you for giving me back the BP bug. Some 40 years ago I bought my first repro (Uberti) Remington 1858 which I had for a few years. Then, I went on to other interests. But the confinement had that GOOD side: I discovered your channel and bought myself a Pietta 1851 "Navy" in .44. Not enough, I decided to buy an original whenever I'd have a chance (Ye, right! That what I told mself 40 years ago!) And guess what! This morning, while I was at work, my first original 1860 Colt came in! Yes, it has been used ans abused but hey! It is in better shape that I am. And what's best is that eventhough I live in Quebec (Canada) an original CAN be shot wherever a shotgun is legal to be used. NO need for a transportation permit nor need to be member of a gun club. Now, the belt and holster will follow soon. Once again, thank you for your wonderful work and for lighting back that little flame that was still sleeping inside me. Better not spend too much too quickly on equipment or my wife is gonna hate me for that! Lol ! Jocelyn Savoie (and wife Mélanie Bolduc)
Glad to hear that. Sounds like you have re-ignited the flame...uh...for black powder. Wow...that sentence really is volatile.
Awesome video pards. Black powder rules the roost. "The More Smoke Gang "
YES!
Great video lets just hope that nobody gets sick
Me too.
Santee do you know how to weather a hat without doing damage to it?
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AWESOME ! BEST SHOW ON KZhead :-)
Thank you!
As always....you guys are accurate AND funny. Your Pard, Kid Tumbleweed See you on down the trail 🤠
Thank you!
That Dave Poole, Archie Clement photo is the cover of a book I just read about Missouri bushwhackers.
Them fellers looked armed and dangerous.
Cap and ball revolvers are my favorites. Only thing better than a cap and ball revolver is a cartridge conversion revolver. Just something about the open top design of cap and ball revolvers and the 1872 are works of art.
They are
I've always had an interest in the cap and ball firearms, maybe I can come up with a good excuse to buy one. Thanks for the video!
They aren't horribly expensive. I hope to one day buy a used one, and throw a conversion kit in it.
I'll give you several. 1, They're relatively inexpensive. 2, Ammunition is relatively inexpensive 3, They're easy to get in the United States, no paperwork and they can be delivered to your door. 4, Some states let you carry them without a license, as long as they stay cap and ball. 5, Conversion cylinders make them very versatile. 6, They're a lot of fun. 7, You can tailor your load to your task. 8, Ammo is still available even during the crisis. 9, It's possible to make ammunition from common materials. 10, They can be customized into some very beautiful pieces of art.