I've just gotten into black powder shooting. I've got an 1851 & 1860. .36 & .44. Your videos have been a great help! Very informative. Thank you.

I just bought my navy revolvers in red dead redemption and I was really curious about the live real version of reloading one of them. Great video, thank you!!

@andrewgates8158

Жыл бұрын

Buy two lemats and upgrade your perks/skills. Akimbo. Get the army versions for real life or the cavalry.

@brettb86

Жыл бұрын

You'll never reload fast as Arthur

@goodmoney2998

Жыл бұрын

@@brettb86 hahaaha i don't think anyone can

@Puppy_Puppington

Жыл бұрын

@@brettb86 yeah but it’s still neat rockstar put the details in.

@bilbo_gamers6417

11 ай бұрын

they're quite fun :)

The grouping at the 10 minute mark on that steel was amazing! Keep up the cool videos.

@christophershipman2843

Жыл бұрын

That 5th one was off by just a tad more than the other ones but even it wasn't bad at all

The loading and shooting videos are relaxing as well as informative. Makes me wish I could get to the range!

@mattig89ch

4 жыл бұрын

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@Sleepy1988

11 ай бұрын

It's funny how relaxing it is watching him going through the loading process as he's explaining it. I've gotten that feeling since I was a kid just watching people doing various things with their hands. I used to get it sometimes when watching classmates doing something with their hands like just cutting paper with some scissors in elementary school.

When you press the ball in the cylinder you see a thin ring of lead from the ball around the cylinder opening. Thats how you know you have a non chain firing gun

I just bought a used pietta for 100 bucks and I think your video has convinced me that I need the 45 LC conversion 🤣

A master class - taught by a master ! Thank you sir !

@walterruff5079

Жыл бұрын

Where does the bore button go

Such style and confidence in the way these classic guns are handled. Good to see theres people keep this art alive

Genau was ich gesucht habe. Danke für das Video

I have the same weapon and I didn't really know a whole lot about it since I'm not trained on those class of weapons I couldn't be happier that all this information was in one place. I'm for sure going to find out if my weapon works now. Thank you!

Thanks for the videos, Mike. I decided to make getting into cap & ball one positive thing to come out of this pandemic. Your timing couldn't have been better!

My Son bought me a couple of nice Uberti C&B revolvers a while ago. I did do the Kirst conversion on both, but left the loading lever on both revolvers (1851 & 1860). Both are great fun to shoot. Now I've recently supplied up on the accrutments needed to shoot cap and ball, so we'll give that a try. Thank you Mike for all of the great info on blackpowder firearms!

Thank you for doing this Mike. When I started, (many moons ago), I spent a lot of time hunting for the needed information. And, it wasn't all from a single source. 👍

Thank you for educating me. I was gifted this exact firearm for Christmas and wanted to be sure that I loaded it properly. (I am lacking the grease that I was told helps stop chain fire and am confident that it is safe to discharge without it but will acquire it to be sure it is properly loaded.)

Because of some regrettable choices I made when I was younger and the current social climate, I need some good information. I found that and then some, thanks a bunch!!

Entertaining as well as informative. What more could a history/firearms enthusiast ask for? These videos are always enjoyable.

I was taught to cap off each nipple once first before loading to dry out the oil and help prevent misfires. I've found that cabelas brand lubed felt wads work great between the powder and ball and in my experience a lighter powder load tends to make the cylinder rotate better and not seize up after 6 shots like a 15 grain load in .36 and a 25 grain load in a .44 colt style repros. Plus with colt repros after the first shot rotate the piece to a 45 degree right angle and cock the hammer on that angle and keep an eye on the hammer and back of the receiver to make sure no cap swallowing happens. Do that every shot after the first shot. Doing that I've never had a cap get swallowed and I've shot thousands of shots out of colt repros

Just recieved my .44 cartridge former from cap and ball makes a nice easy job. Just loaded up ready 30 paper cartridges so far, love your channel.

I have some convenience (at least for me) when it comes to lubricating the chambers. This works well with your own beeswax grease. After mixing the ingredients and cooling them, I form balls with my fingers, maybe 2/3, sometimes 1/2 the size of the ball I am loading. I keep it in RWS1081 cap boxes or a similar size, they hold about 70 grease balls. I don't have to take any spatula, knife, etc. I just take a ball of grease and either use my index finger or thumb to press it into the loaded chamber. You have to play a bit at home with preparing the BBs, but it actually saves a lot of time at the shooting range.

Always good to watch you do a tutorial Mike!

Great video, you finally convinced me to buy a black powder revolver. Think I'll start with the 1860 Colt.

Excellent shooting! Enjoy your submissions, thanks for your efforts, always informative and entertaining.

Great video. I’ve been shooting these for a long time and still found this informative and entertaining. You do great videos.

Just found you and thank goodness…I have an old Italian black powder .44 and this video is gospel.

You make very nice but also informative videos. keep up the good work Buddy. love watching them.

Thank you for the information, I'm new to the black powder pistol stuff and have been considering purchasing one, you made up my mind, thank you again.

Well damn! Loading them up is a lot simpler than I thought! Thanks for the info.

This revolver feels like a pain in the ass to reload mid-fight. Imagine thinking you managed to kill the person youre fighting while theyre behind cover and coming up around the corner only to see them frantically trying to reload it

Great video. Definitely a labor of love. I want to get into BP but Goex is now gone. I'll keep shooting my SAA in 45 Colt with my reloads. Fun gun.

Thank you for the instructions. I am new to these type firearms and have learned most everything from your channel. And you are a great shot sir.

I do use Crisco with Bee wax if it seems to susceptible to heat from the sun I use more Bee wax. Works just fine and have over 100 rounds throug the same pistol in one event. I have changed to multiple cylinders since. I preload 7 cylinders now 6 in my belt and one in the gun never had an isue. But you go ahead with Mutton tallow if that is what you like but I find that sort of thing just gets rancid to easy. Otherwise great video signed The "Wretch"

Also appreciate the plug for CapandBall - charming & knowledgeable guy, I also have his cartridge kit and reproduction cartridge boxes.

Great overview for a beginner! Thanks!

Another Simple and Informative Video! I Found " Cap and Ball" Just before Discovering Your Channel! So Much to Absorb but Simple Basic Explanations! Thank You for Sharing All Your Knowledge With us Newbies!

New to black powder so I enjoy your videos, very helpful.

Just bought my first 1851 navy .44 glad this was around or I would have bought a bunch more than I needed for it.

Thanks for the video. Found the bit about paper cartridges especially interesting.

By the way. Your channel is by far the best cap and ball out there .. I understand giving credit where its due but facts are facts. Thanks

@TheStraycat74

4 жыл бұрын

Mikes great, and I like him... but I have to agree with Mike that CabAndBall here on youtube is also Great, and TONS of content! you should really check him out!

Much appreciated. I had been using Bore Butter on top of the ball and it is seriously messy to handle. (Probably going to stick with pre-lubed patches. Life is short.) Particularly helpful - seating the caps. I get a bit nervous about setting them off, and I am not going to get them down with my thumb or the capper. The dowel looks like the best option.

Thank alot for making this, very helpful and easy to understand !

I've been making my own lube and wads ever since you first posted your homemade wad video. They work very well and the lamb tallow/beeswax mixture works great. Keep up the good work.

@TheStraycat74

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't find lambs tallow, wrong time of year when I went looking. Beef tallow worked, but made me hungry for some reason I haven't entirely put my finger on...

Amazingly helpful!! Thank you!

Really enjoyed this ! I have been shooting a long time! Thanks Mike!

The group with the conical bullet was pretty damn tight for a gun with such crappy sights. Nice shooting

Kudos for this. I am a new black powder shooter and appreciate you guidance.

Thank you so much for the video. Great info.

Great group with those conicals!

Thank you so much for these videos if it wasn't for guys like you us new guys wouldn't know what to do when it comes to black powder.

I just got a Uberti Walker and now I'm hooked.

Mr. Mike that is impressive because I happen to know from watching your other videos that each of those bullets striking a different place like the round balls probably hit closer to your sights the conicals and the conicals in the paper cartridges I think if I remember shoot low and you hitting those plates awesome you're really quite knowledgeable fellow thank you for sharing it Joe security Oklahoma

As usual excellent practical easy to follow information. Thank you Mike for all the work you do yor are very much appreciated by real old time Gun Powder (like it says on DuPont cans) shooters. .

@bunkstagner298

3 жыл бұрын

also do not load from a flask that is a bomb.use a measure as shown. I use the lube wad made using your method. Thanks again..

thank you for the education my first time revolver C&B i soot BP percussion every day cant wait to shoot my 2 pistols ( 1861

Absolutely amazing video. your an amazing shot.

Pre-load Multiple Cylinders and 1858 Remington. Great channel. Had the same problem using lard trying 1860s research, fowling the cylinder in extreme heat. Add some candle wax to lard.

Thx you for sharing 🙏

Great for a newbie. Good video Mike.

Great video! Thanks Mike!

Thank you sir , very educational !!

Thats really cool. Thanks for the lesson.

Great video Mike

Great vid!!

This is a great idea to have this as a stand alone video. Coupled with the gear for loading cap n ball this is great for someone who just wants a primer (pun intended) on how to get started

Excellent, comprehensive view of both loose ball and paper cartridge use. The lubed wads keep your bore bright the entire shooting session. Using a revolver loading stand at the range keeps the muzzle pointing up and speeds the process considerably. The best part is, these old revolvers will out-shoot most of the black plastic pistols accuracy-wise, but of course sort of suck for concealed carry. Love watching you shoot!

@grant9939

2 жыл бұрын

You mean an 8" barreled cap an ball .44 isn't stealthy 😅..... yeah... just bought one myself

thanks very much for sharing the info. i'm a new black powder shooter indeed, (got a few SA,s) nothing beats a visual demo. best regards ! Michel Morin

Wow awesome that packs a punch

I missed your Videos Sir! Thanks for sharing

Great video mike!

hell yeah thanks for this informative video cowboy santa

Nice Advice Mike Thanks 😀😊👍🏼

Very informative video. You know your stuff and are a darn good shot. The one thing I'd add, being a 51 shooter myself, is to roll the gun up when you cock the hammer for shots 2-6. I've had pieces of busted cap get into the darndest spots in my gun and bind it up tighter than Dicks hat band. Muzzle up while cocking let's gravity make the pieces fall free.

Nice man. You're a good guy. I think I'll subscribe.

There's a gun shop in Chattanooga that I go to sometimes just to look around. Well they have to cap and ball 44 revolvers. They are both of yous but appear to be in good condition. This man was in a Cowboys tournament for many years and I think he died and his relatives sold a bunch of his guns. I need to learn how to take it completely apart so I can look inside of the gun. I really want to learn how to do this. Both guns are made in Italy. I really want to learn how to do this. I can take apart and shoot almost any gun on the plants but I've never done this and I think it would be fun I want to learn how to do the paper cartridges because I think it would be a lot faster on the Range.

Thank you for sharing this video. Sadly, England, my birth nation, has virtually killed off shooting as a pass time due to a series of knee - jerk reactions to criminal shootings by successive governments. Luckily, I live in France which has far more sensible gun laws! I eagerly await delivery of my new Pietta - Remington .44 Sherrif next week. In the meantime, your videos tell me all I need to know! Thanks again.

@everettsharp1917

11 ай бұрын

Richard, may I ask if a tourist from the UK visited a French gun club specifically to fire a black powder weapon, would this be legal under that country's laws?

@bsaneil

11 ай бұрын

@@everettsharp1917 Hello Everett yes it would.

@everettsharp1917

11 ай бұрын

@@bsaneil Many thanks

Paul Harrell has proven that an oversized ball does NOT stop chainfires. The over ball wad or grease stops it.

Thank you great video

Nice work Mike! You took good care of Evil Roy and his Circle Gang! LOL!

Perfect, thanks.

great video, i bet most chain fires are from burrs on chamber mouth from careless loading or dropping it. The burr carves a furrow in the lead ball on the way in, making a path

Can't wait for an episode that shows new shooters that BP Substitutes are also loaded by Volume even though they don't scale weigh the same as BP. I think that screws with more new BP shooters than anything. (In areas that can't seem to get real BP)

You really had to make every shot count back then. Reloading takes time. Cool guns though. Just bought the army 1858 .44 cal.

Ive heard some wax and coconut oil works when mixed together in a 60/40 mixture. Is this a good bore lube?

Nice video! I have an 1800s something Pietta replica navy colt revolver (.44 caliber, not sure if they have different calibers back then) I received as a gift from my grandpa and grandma, and I’ve always wanted to learn how to load and fire it, this video helps tremendously and hopefully I can acquire the items to load it sometime soon, should make an interesting show for my family’s 4th of July lol.

@theanxious

7 ай бұрын

It would actually be a Colt ARMY if it is .44 caliber. I'm totally not sure why, but they used to call the .36 caliber the NAVY model and the .44 caliber the ARMY model. Like I said, I have no clue why. But I figured I'd share that piece of knowledge with you. It's rare that I get to pass on any of my "useless knowledge"😂. I hope you've fired your revolver by now, since your comment is already pretty old. I probably should have checked the date of your comment before I started replying 😅 Safe shooting my friend!

Great video!

Great channel

Have to add to other comment, Seen yea do it many, many times But I guess, I just enjoy it, wishing I was loading my 1851 or Hawkins rifle. Thanks Keep up the good work.

This will be seen a ton a times by new people for reference. I, like you are have done this for years. Hopefully a bunch of new BP shooters.

I have one of these I bought at a yard sale. Do you put the lube or wad over the conical bullets?

Great video thanks and God bless

nice, so I don't need both lube and wads but one or the other, great! I've seen some puts both.

thanks great video for a newbie like me

Thank you sir great vidio

Thank goodness for the modern metallic cartridge. 😉

@bobg1685

4 жыл бұрын

@John Perratto: Well, yeah, thank goodness, but I hope you don't miss the point of C&B shooting; these guns are fun. I have plenty of guns, and I'm sure I'll get a few more, but I want C&B because this style is different. Retro fun. When I go to the range to break in a gun I tend to take just that one gun so I can do what I went to do, but when I go for shits and grins I - like probably you - take a few so as not to get bored. Trust me, there have been plenty of days where I still have ammo but no longer have the desire to load mags. I had a couple of BP revolvers back in the 70's and they were awesome. I gave them away when I went overseas, but I've wanted to get back into it.

4 жыл бұрын

shooting single shot muzzleloaders has made me a better marksman. as a side benefit, when I go to the range with friends, they'll go through a hundred bucks worth of ammo and I can shoot all afternoon for a few dollars. since I also reload , sometimes I get free brass. win-win.

@TheStraycat74

4 жыл бұрын

I handload for my own modern metallic cartridges, I also shoot blackpowder. it's just similar to liking blonds, but that doesn't preclude also liking redheads.

Excellent continuez comme ça

Hi Mike, I've had a fondness for cap and ball revolvers ever since the first time I saw them in a Cabela's mag when I was a kid and your vids have kept that interest stoked. I finally started putting together the kit for one based on these videos and have rounded up pretty much everything sans percussion caps, which seem to have gone the way of the 9mm. Since I am new to BP I have a couple questions I was hoping you might address. Is it common to run into fouling issues during a range session? If so can easily you field clean the revolver to keep it in action? Also would it be possible to put together a video in this series addressing common problems and how to troubleshoot them? Thanks!

I fire heavy elongateds too. The elongated ball for the Pocket 49 is b i g ! 76g and long! So long, I have to nose it up into the cup of the rammer and scoot the base into the chamber. 11g max charge. Through a fir 2 x 4 at 50 yards!

Great group with the conical. Do you have a video on preparing ng the revolver before firing?

I just ordered 1851 Navy 44 - 5 1/2 and 1851 Colt Navy 36 - 7 1/2 revolvers, doing searches for everything else I need, so far the only thing I can't find is the 44 ball ammo. thanks for the video

I loved shooting Cap n ball revolvers when I was younger. Then I discovered how easy reloading ammo was and bought a cimarron model p. No more loose powder and ball and no more of those infuriating cap jams!

Thank you

Great video

@duelist1954

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it