Reprocussion 001: Colt Paterson Revolver No.5
Alright boys and girls, we've got our first of the new series ready for Tuesday release, but of course ya'll get first crack at it before we make it public later tonight. (I'm wondering how many non-patron viewers in the public release, i.e. the ones who don't know we like to create playful titles, will try to correct us on the series title spelling and not get the word combo.) Enjoy!
Reprocussion 001: Colt Paterson Revolver No.5 Part 1 (YouTube)
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WRT the "fewer cap jams back in the day," that is entirely plausible since they were using soft copper caps vs. the brass cups [or even soft iron: iirc, Duellist1954 was waxing irked in one of his vids about encountering such things during this most recent ammo & possibles drought?] used today...
Do ya’ll need a brass framed pietta 1851 in .44 for the show?
Ok, so Sharps is happening, right? This won't be confined to pistols?
Eventually all things are possible
Mae Responding: Ok so someone wisely pointed out an error in the episode, we have since fixed it. The new link has been copied over the original on this post. Fixed points and error have been pinned as the top comment on the episode. Thank you to everyone for your support!
Super appreciating you doing things like this, but I really wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to just make a separate corrections video and link it with an annotation/card/whatever-they're-doing-nowadays from the main video, as that would probably keep the algorithm happier.
great new sequence
"Mae, would you carry this gun into Bandera Pass and use it against Cammanches?"
"Comanches" fwiw. But I like your post!
This is great timing for me, who have just gotten into percussion revolvers after aquiring an old Colt 1861 Navy. Great information and presentation! Looking forward to the next part in this series.
Nice episode, I like percusion revolvers. On the subject of old revolvers, the oldest one I have seen is one held at Maihaugen collection. Acording to the museum, it was made in 1597 by Hans Stopler of Nürnberg, and brought to Norway by Major general Georg Reichwein in 1636. The links below are for the museum website and an article by the Norwegian broadcaster NRK, if anyone are interested. Unfortunately it is all in Norwegian, but the pictures are nice. https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/_-verdens-eldste-revolver-1.11628328 https://digitaltmuseum.no/011022448966/revolver
Getting a "broken link" (file not found) page in Norske. Got a permalink?
Watching the body language on May's hands while attempting to use the percussion cap loader, I was half expecting her to throw it away on camera after it failed to fit.
I did so very much enjoy the new black powder series! This even though I own no B.P. firearms, nor do I have any interests/desires to venture outside of my current firearms endeavors! Additionally, much congratulations to Mae on her very evident successes battling weight gain! She's looking simply fabulous in this latest C&Rsenal offering and even the gray streak is quite becoming!
Merry Christmas my Friends
I know you started with colts but I really can't wait for you to find some weird and wonderful BP guns to blather on about for a few hours. :-)
The new Reprocussion series launch AND a new Anvil on the same day? I'm giddy!
Passaic is pronounce puh-say-ick. No big deal, but I'm from New Jersey and feel obligated.
Pashik, got it
I look forward to checking this out once I'm awake enough to watch it
What a fantastic way to bring us content on unattainable firearms. I hope you can continue to expand into other areas of firearms history. Best value for the money I’ve ever spent. Thank you so much for taking up the task of bringing out the history.
Let me just say, and I'm not proud of it. I screamed like a little girl when I saw this was a thing! The Patterson Revolver is a hell of a story and I can't wait to watch it tonight.
Am I the only one that felt "While we are talking about being insecure about things, and being worried about data..." was going to be followed up with "I'd like to mention our sponsor for this episode, .?"
I wish we had one!
Can't wait for the stocked revolvers from the Civil War era.
looks to be a great new series. love it. I'm a sucker for revolvers anyway.
Great idea for a series. I have a Umberti colt Navy great fun to shoot and I proudly display it along with my guns that are original
Something near my heart. Love my percussion revolvers!
Ok we have a series on all the small arms of WWI, and we are adding in some fun hand trap stuff to prime the pump for our shotgun series.. wait what’s that, an occasional series on reproduction black powder cap and ball revolvers?!? Great! Get it in here! Love it👍🏻
Been eagerly awaiting this series. First you assemble your caps, balls, wads, powder, powder measure, powder flask, ball starter, ramrod, lube, loading stand, capping tool, nipple wrench, nipple pick, and oh yeah the gun. Now we go through our checklist: is this the right size cap, the right granluation of powder, the correct charge of powder, the right size and weight of ball, the proper degree of compression on the charge? Then Mae hits a 9" target at 60 yards with a Patterson.. .Offhand! Something I'd be hard pressed to accomplish from a rest with my Walker. Fun?!
this looks like it will be a fun series. I would love to see this expand to black powder cartridges (with accompanied development in revolvers) and that would set you up to go into a nightmare of acquisition and research for a series on the transition to smokeless and automatics.
You can read the Universal Compendium here https://archive.org/details/TheCompleteCompendiumOfUniversalKnowledge
Oh nice
Excellent! This is a splendid addition to the Primer series! Are you planning to have a look at pepperboxes and some of the British and French percussion revolver too?
We have a hard time getting the Continental percussion revolvers here, because 1) Nobody makes repops & 2) a huge number of U.S. percussion firearms were shipped to Yurp for the Franco-Prussian war, which led to the demand for repops of them here during the centennial of the CW, which pretty much *created* the reproduction market [thank you, Val Forgett & Navy Arms!] I think the CapandBall channel on YT is your best bet if you want to see European percussion arms, since he can shoot originals that are still in circulation there...
Okay, I'll bite. What's the play on words behind the name Reprocussion? Might just be up too late to get the joke. XD
I think it is Repro(duction)(per)cussion.
This looks great, looking forward to this series with interest :) PS I have an excellent reproduction Rogers and Spencer, you may want to consider including one of those in your series, time permitting...
The wad and gr.ease have nothing to do with flash over. Over sized lead balls leaving a ring of lead sealed the chamber and prevented flash over. Flash over occurs at the nipples Check Duelist 1954 on YouTube. On the Patterson I might put the caps on before loading the cylinder. ETA: capping first probably wouldn't work pressing the ball into the cylinder would pop the cap off the back.
Really excited for this series.
I haven't even watched it yet and I already like it. This will have to wait for the morning to be watched.
Paterson? or Reichsrevolver? LOL
Congratulations on getting the first episode of this new series published. As always, you provided excellent context and relevant history.
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My suggestion was to hyphenate it to "Repro-cussion" but idk it looks weird now that I've typed it out
If I were really clever I'd pick a good name.
Excellent!
Have you given any thought to covering cartridge conversions as part of this series, or will you strictly stick to percussion guns?
Time and interest will tell!
I'm wondering how many non-patron viewers... will try to correct us on the series title spelling" ... I'm guessing nearly as many as think your name is 'Othias', but not quite.
Cant wait to see how mae ranks these for EDC
Oh I agree, I was honestly only half joking. I mean wouldn't want to be shot by anything, but especially not one of those huge horse pistols like the dragoon