New Thought on Cylinder Presses

[Dick Dastardly]

Charge six with powder, seat six bullets, cap five only at the loading table.  An uncapped chamber isn't loaded.  You can see the capped and uncapped chambers without having to look down the tube.  If you have to load one on the clock, you can do it by simply capping the sixth chamber.  The above is what I do with my ROAs when I'm shooting Frontiersman. . Gunfighter style of course. . .

DD-DLoS

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Charge six with powder, seat six bullets, cap five only at the loading table.  An uncapped chamber isn't loaded.  You can see the capped and uncapped chambers without having to look down the tube.  If you have to load one on the clock, you can do it by simply capping the sixth chamber.  The above is what I do with my ROAs when I'm shooting Frontiersman. . Gunfighter style of course. . .

DD-DLoS

An open cone is a path for fire.  I believe the advice is to cap on the clock BEFORE shooting. Clear with RO first.

[Fingers McGee]

Personal opinion:

Cylinder loading presses, chamber fillers and marked nipples are all solutions to a problem that does not exist.

Load 5, cap 5, shoot 5.  Sam Colts equipment worked in 1860 and still works now.

A big amen +1, hear-hear to that.  All that other stuff is just so much unnecessary foofurawl

FM

[Mako]

A big amen +1, hear-hear to that.  All that other stuff is just so much unnecessary foofurawl

FM

Fangers...
Then anyone that has more than two Colt's percussion pistols and all that other stuff  like display cases, molds, flasks and other accoutrements they don't use is just so much unnecessary foofurawl.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm??

[Fingers McGee]

Fangers...
Then anyone that has more than two Colt's percussion pistols and all that other stuff  like display cases, molds, flasks and other accoutrements they don't use is just so much unnecessary foofurawl.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm??

Ratzenfratzen, hoisted on my own petard  

[TwoWalks Baldridge]

I feel it is only fair to state I am a fan of the cylinder press but admit you can live without it.  So here comes my question:

If the cylinder press for C&B shooters is too much because we can load using the lever, then why is a fancy loading press for cartridges not too much when we could use a hand loader like Grandpa did?

[Mako]

Ratzenfratzen, hoisted on my own petard  

True, true but what a beautiful way to go.  Just think of it,  surrounded by all of your pistols , both cased and uncased.  Maybe you can have a casket built from all of your cases and then have one in each hand, sash filled all the way across and the walls  lined with holsters to hold your multiple braces of pistol.

Of course I do have a backhoe.

~Mako