thread: 2006-03-29 : DC Trip Report
On 2006-03-29, Valamir wrote:
Vincent asked: "Can somebody confirm for me that its second trigger, the lower one with the ring, is for advancing the cylinder?"
Even better. The ring also cocked the hammer. It also fixed a common problem many early revolvers had with the seal between the cylinder chamber and the barrel, which could lead to very dangerous misfires where all of the charges in the cylinder would go off simultaneously. It was not uncommon to plug the back of the cylinder with a little grease as a safty precaution.
This was because you couldn't have too tight of a fit between the cylinder and the barrel in order for the cylinder to rotate.
What the savage did was have the barrel project into the cylinder bay so that the cylinder chamber actually overlapped the barrel for a tight fit. Of course the cylinder couldn't rotate like this, so the ring trigger actually pulled the cylinder back away from the projecting barrel before rotating it and then pushing it back forward again.
I imagine it didn't catch on because running all of those mechanisms with a simple trigger and spring action must have required some pretty powerful fingers.
Fun fact: the gun cost about $20 in period money.
Yeah...I played ALOT of Deadlands...and Boothill, old and new editions...
Ruth bought me a fully functional 1835 Colt Navy for my birthday one year (nickle plated and fully engraved...its so sweet...and so much prettier than the ugly modern looking Peacemaker).
