For Civil War pistoleros the best way to rapidly reload any cap-and-ball revolver, including the 1858, was to carry several of them, like this other guy-a Confederate guerilla from Missouri. If you’re not lucky, then you’ve got a tear in your femoral artery and only a few minutes to stop the bleeding before you’re introduced to Eliphalet Remington at that great gun factory in the sky. One good smack on the percussion caps, and BOOM! You could become the next Farinelli…if you’re lucky. Of course, walking around with fully-loaded and capped extra cylinders on your belt or in your pocket can be a bit dicey. On a Remington 1858, all you have to do is flip down the loading lever, pull the cylinder pin forward, and ECCO! The cylinder! She just a rolls out inna ya hand! And if you happen to have another pre-loaded cylinder with you, PRESTO! You’re reloaded. But that same design made the Remington more robust than the Colts and also gave the advantage of rapid cylinder swapping. The Remington cost about 50 cents more per copy than the various Colt models, due to the “top strap” frame construction, and was not as widely issued. The US Government needed as many revolvers as it could get. The Remington-Beals – as it was called back then – came into its own with the onset of the Civil War. Mmmmmm……lightly-grilled, corn-fed Bambi’s mother backstrap…….mmmmmmm. Not only is that the right way to hunt, deer that go down fast and clean taste better. Of course, only shoot from distances from which you know you make clean, ethical kills. And man, do we have a lot of Bambi’s kin running loose here. With heavier charges, it’s good to go when trying to put Bambi’s mother in the freezer. A standard 1858’s barrel measures eight inches. 44 caliber, with barrels at least four inches long and without shoulder stocks are legal for deer hunting. In Iowa, muzzle-loading pistols of at least. And that’s part of the beauty of cap-and-ball revolvers you can vary the powder charge any time you want-light loads for plinking, and heavy loads for whatever. Most folks shoot them with charges down in the 20-grain range. 44 version, each of the six chambers can hold up to 40 grains of black powder. 44 caliber, although versions were also made in both. The 1858 Remington is a single-action, cap-and-ball percussion revolver, usually.
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None other than William “Buffalo Bill” Cody wrote of his old 1858 Remington, “It never failed me.” If you had a few briefcases full of C-notes sitting around last summer, you could have bid on Buffalo Bill’s 1858 Remington, along with his hand-written note extolling the virtues of Beals’ revolver.
And they still shoot just as straight and true as the originals. Now, 155 years later, you can still buy brand new versions of Fordyce’s design, mostly made in Italy.
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