Short Barrelled Revolvers

[Bad Karma]

For those of you that have some of the shorter versions of the Colt Navy and Colt Army revolvers, and Remingtons, is it practical to use the rammer on the gun to seat the balls without using some kind of rigid tubing for a cheater bar?
I'm talking about guns with barrel lengths in the range of 4 or 5 inches long, not the really short snubbies.
Would like to have a gun with a mid-sized barrel length but don't know if a deep chamfering of the chamber mouths would make loading easy enough or not.
I do not want to have to take the cylinder out of the gun and use a loading press apparatus to load.

I’ve never had any trouble with my 5” 1860. I don’t use handles or tubes or what not. Just my hand.

 

[SDSmlf]

When I shot SASS I left the house with enough preloaded cylinders (without caps) for entire match plus a few extras. Loaded the cylinders out of the frane in a small arbor press setup. The Remingtons were a bit easier/quicker to change on the fly than the Colts. Found the short barreled handguns, period correct or not, to be just the ticket in SASS competition. Gave no advantage to the cartridge shooting group in my opinion.

If I were to load in the frame, would use a cheater matching the length of the longer barreled guns loading levers.

 

[Desperate Lee]

This is what I did on my brass framed '51 Colt .36 cal revolver. I cut the barrel to 3" and added this holster. The rammer I notched so I could remove it when I carry. Saw a guy on another forum do this to his. It works for me.

 

[azmntman]

same here (- the .36.....I better get one)

 

[Desperate Lee]

Want bigger there azmntman? Here is my '60 Colt 3" barreled .44. I also have a 4" version of this brass Colt I haven't finish yet. That one I may cut the loader down to fit and it will be for looks. I load this 3" cylinder off gun. These are some CVA kit guns I picked up in my youth.
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[hawkeye2]

"The rammer I notched so I could remove it when I carry."

I like the loading lever mod, I'll have to remember that one.

 

[omark]

Notching that loading lever is a really cool idea

 

[Desperate Lee]

Omar
It is a cool idea. But for the record it is not my idea. Another C&B enthusiast that I was following his blog and he did this to his revolver. So I said " WHAT THE HEY " and did mine.
DL

 

[nkbj]

I'd like to have a spare barrel for a Walker about five inches.
Wasn't there one posted here once upon a time or was that some other forum?