Half cock

[bobthemotorcycle]

Maybe my brain is tired but I always remember single action revolver cylinders are free wheeling at half cock which is second click out of 3 clicks.
My 1860 is free wheeling on first click and really no click at all, you just have to pull hammer back a bit and feel the cylinder. What is wrong here?

While I am asking questions what are some ways to slick up the action? I remember my dad's fast draw guns cylinders use to spin like ball bearings and when you spun them they went zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. What is the path to make that happen.

 

[IROCZ]

Maybe my brain is tired but I always remember single action revolver cylinders are free wheeling at half cock which is second click out of 3 clicks.
My 1860 is free wheeling on first click and really no click at all, you just have to pull hammer back a bit and feel the cylinder. What is wrong here?

While I am asking questions what are some ways to slick up the action? I remember my dad's fast draw guns cylinders use to spin like ball bearings and when you spun them they went zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. What is the path to make that happen.

Have you checked out Goons gun works? He does action jobs on Colt platform revolvers.

 

[Dashing Leper]

The 1860 Colt is a "three click" gun, and half-cock (and the freewheel) happens on the first click.

You get an 1873 SAA with a safety cock (a classic four-click model) and the first click is that safety while half-cock happens on the second.

As to Hollywood-style roulette, that may have something to do with the cylinder spinning on a spindle rather than the thick arbor of an open-frame revolver.