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Revolvers used by Clint Eastwood ?
cocoguns
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What cap lock revolvers allow you to change cylinders so quickly as in the Clint Eastwood movies ? It seems you need to remove the cylinder pin far enough to get the cylinder out, still able to put it back quickly ?
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Another one used was a 1851 colt navy again modified to use a cartridge.
The revolver Clint uses in Pale Rider was indeed an 1858 Remington army modified to take a cartridge cylinder. Said cylinders are available on the auction side.
You drop the loading lever (which has had the plunger removed)pull out the cylinder pin, switch cylinders, push in the cylinder pin and loading lever, cock and fire. Spare cylinders were carried in belt pouches during the civil war, even for percussion revolvers. Much easier with a Remington, than with a Colt, where you have to take off the barrel to swap cylinders, hence Colt went more for a back plate mounted on the frame, with the back of the cylinder exposed to a loading gate. I have some of each and they are fun to shoot
Correction: the scene with the swapped cylinders was the High Plains Drifter, as I recall, not Pale Rider
I don't think so! In High Plains Drifter, Clint used a Colt single action army didn't he? In which he would not need to change cylinders.
Hears a review from awhile back.
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=75074
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