Hello Everybody!
One of my favorite movies is El Dorado with John Wayne, and Robert Mitchum, and James Caan. Almost stealing the show from Caan is Arthur Honnicut, who plays "Bull" the town deputy. One of the "fun" parts of Bull's character, he uses an 1855 Colt/Root revolving rifle...,

they never fully say, but it may be left over from the ACW. No idea if Bull has had it converted over to use cartridges or not.... here he is shooting the thing in the movie....,

Then I found a video of one, and it's a pretty good, overall look, at the caplock rifle. The host of the video settles on what I'd a thought was a pretty light load. I would've expected the rifle should be loaded closer to a Walker load....
LD
One of my favorite movies is El Dorado with John Wayne, and Robert Mitchum, and James Caan. Almost stealing the show from Caan is Arthur Honnicut, who plays "Bull" the town deputy. One of the "fun" parts of Bull's character, he uses an 1855 Colt/Root revolving rifle...,

they never fully say, but it may be left over from the ACW. No idea if Bull has had it converted over to use cartridges or not.... here he is shooting the thing in the movie....,

Then I found a video of one, and it's a pretty good, overall look, at the caplock rifle. The host of the video settles on what I'd a thought was a pretty light load. I would've expected the rifle should be loaded closer to a Walker load....
LD
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