Revolvers with no loading lever

[AceMerrill3]

You can take a small block of wood (4”
x4”x1” etc…) and drive a nail or bolt through it that the cylinder will fit on. Then use a a piece of wooden dowel or brass rod and hammer to seat the ball over the charge. Cut the nail or bolt so it doesn’t stick up out of the cylinder if you would like, so it’s not in the way.

If you have a 1851 with a barrel with the attached loading lever, like loading on a press anyway, and just like the look of not having that lever, can you just remove the lever and still shoot it or do you have to get a replacement barrel that never had one?

 

[B P Arn]

If you have a 1851 with a barrel with the attached loading lever, like loading on a press anyway, and just like the look of not having that lever, can you just remove the lever and still shoot it or do you have to get a replacement barrel that never had one?

You can just remove the lever. The gun will shoot the same either way.