You can reload, but it is going to take you some time unless you have another loaded cylinder. Although slow to reload, usually requiring three minutes, this method is simple and dependable. When the hammer strikes the cap, a priming compound is ignited sending a jet of flame to the powder charge and propelling the ball down the barrel. The rear of each chamber has a nipple which holds a percussion cap. You dump in a measured powder charge, cover it with a ball and use the attached lever under the barrel of the gun to swage the ball into the cylinder. Cap and ball pistols require loading loose powder and ball into each chamber. The heart of the Colt design is a fixed barrel with a rotating cylinder drilled with five or six chambers (also known as charge holes). The repeating firearm made human wave attacks suicide. This skirmish changed the fight in Texas and across the west. The Comanches abandoned the field with their wounded leaving 23 dead warriors. When the fight at Walker’s Creek was over, the Rangers had lost one man (dead) and had four wounded. The Rangers stood back to back shooting and changing cylinders in their revolvers. The Comanches probed and taunted, advanced and withdrew. The Rangers encountered a Comanche war party of sixty warriors.
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