reloading your cap & ball, how long?

[Hawg]

However long it takes. No hurry.

 

[wogpotter]

I've gone back to loading powder-wad-ball/bullet with a cylinder loading press. In the long run, I think it's faster than cartridges when you consider the time required to make up the cartridges.

I agree! This was just an experiment to see how it was/is done, not an attempt at becoming a speed demon. I'll probably quit playing in a while myself but I do love to experiment with such things first.

 

[Raider2000]

About 20 years ago I did a speed loading of my 1860 Army using premade paper cartridges with ball, I don't remember the exact time but it was under 4 minutes w/ 6 shots loaded & ready to fire.

If I remember right it was demonstrate how a soldier of the time would have had to do it in the least amount of time to be back in the fight.

I've gotten smarter & more relaxed now so I could care less if it took me 10 minutes to load 5 chambers now a days.

 

[bedbugbilly]

However long it takes me to slide a new clip in . . . Oh Oh . . . wait a minute . . . wrong gun! I've never timed it . . . probably could do it a lot faster if I had a War Party bearing down on me with the idea of giving me a haircut. Actually, I just take my time and play safe. I don't shoot competition like some of the fellas so there's really no hurry. But if that War Party shows up . . . . .

 

[simonkenton]

It didn't take Robert E. Lee any time to load his pistol.
He got his slave and body servant, William Mack, to load the pistol.

 

[sebou]

Well,
Do it as best security as you can...
it's take 2 minutes for me.
(2 minutes.... to midnight.... Sacrifice is going on tonight !!!!)
Seb

 

[dark waffen]

if its a cap and ball revolver.
paper cartridges can speed things up. or just keep an extra loaded cilinder if you have a rem.

 

[andrewstorm]

go speed loader go

pyrodex pellets are the fastest way to load ,besides a spare cylinder,but you must use magnum caps,and ox yoke wad,very accurate light load in my r o a ,very little fouling