Sleight of hand fast 1858 Remington cylinder reloading

[Tumbledown]

I don't think it was sped up. The hand movements are too fluid.

 

[fireman1]

This post is a follow up to my recent speed shooting an 1858 Remington post. Check out how fast this guy removes and reloads a cylinder in his 1858. Interesting how he removes the cylinder from the left side of the frame and re-inserts it into the right side.

Cool!

 

[Mangonboat]

It's fascinating for a moment but kind of a moot point. Popping your cylinder out to the right only to put the same cylinder back in from the left doesnt achieve the raison d'etre for the easily-removable cylinder, i. .e., replacing an empty cylinder with a fully-loaded and primed one in a situation where completing that action item in a quick manner could save one's life. If he has to drop the empty then locate and pick up a full cylinder from a pocket, etc., and make sure it is in the correct orientation, that is going to slow things down considerably. That can still be done with impressive alacrity with the Remington and practice, as other videos have demonstrated, but the sequence in the video above is about as useful as a fidget spinner...might as well toss the empty revolver back and forth from hand to hand several times like was done in a lot of cowboy movies.

 

[Bad Karma]

That's why we build muscle memory. When adrenaline hits, we revert to the muscle movements we've trained our bodies to execute.

100%!! Your mind will revert and to a degree you’ll perform movements as you trained, but under the stress of combat your fine motor skills will suffer. Some guys are hardly affected at all, others have difficulty with almost everything they attempt and that can be different from day to day… later, in the dreams that come, it’ll sometimes be impossible to do anything at all... I don’t recommend those dreams, but I’m damned if I know how to prevent them.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

With practice, one can reload an 1858 as fast as a modern revolver. Several leathercrafters make pouches for spare loaded cylinders:

A man so armed with such a rig is FAR from unarmed even today.

 

[TrapperDude]

With practice, one can reload an 1858 as fast as a modern revolver. Several leathercrafters make pouches for spare loaded cylinders:

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A man so armed with such a rig is FAR from unarmed even today.

I got a pair of these for my spare cylinders.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1316258057?pid=777099

 

[Tom A Hawk]

 

[appalichian hunter]

Competing with a un-mentionable revolver I got too the point where using a speed loader from on the gun belt, was around 2 seconds from dump too re-load and back on target, as stated with practice and due training it can be done. We shot at Quantico in a advance firearms instructor course put on bye the F.B.I. and impressed the hell out of the fed boys using semis. I was shooting a 4 in. barreled S/W 686 at the time.