milemaker13
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Jframe- What is that little revolver in the top left, the one with the wooden grips. Very neat. Is that a loading lever under the barrel?
I'm not JFrame, but I think it's a North American Arms, "The Earl."Jframe- What is that little revolver in the top left, the one with the wooden grips. Very neat. Is that a loading lever under the barrel?
Sounds promising.Well...I was a uniformed officer then a detective for a total of 36 years in a large metropolitan area..our Capital city...
Fair enough. I try to learn something at least occasionally. Even if I sound like a grumpy old know-it-all.Unkei said:But...I certainly do not consider myself an expert anything. Learning is..or should be an ongoing process!
One thing of which I am certain, ending the onslaught of an attacker is more important than ending a life. If it is the same thing, that's the way it goes.Unkei said:And I’m more than willing to consider your viewpoint, and anyone else who seems to state their opinion from an intelligent consideration of any known facts.
I spent twenty-eight years in federal law enforcement, armed and identified. I did not get paid to kill people, I got paid to enforce the law. And I couldn't cash my paycheck if dead.Unkei said:And I’m more than willing to consider your viewpoint, and anyone else who seems to state their opinion from an intelligent consideration of any known facts.What I try very hard not to do is tear someone else down, especially without actual knowledge of their life experience.
Jframe- What is that little revolver in the top left, the one with the wooden grips. Very neat. Is that a loading lever under the barrel?
I'm not JFrame, but I think it's a North American Arms, "The Earl."
https://northamericanarms.com/shop/firearms/naa-1860-3/
I saw a tiny black powder revolver in a pawn shop in CO many years ago. Not certain if it was NAA, but sure looked like one. It did not have an integral loading lever like a full size BP revolver,. But instead came with an independent loading press. I was young, didn't seem like something I needed.... Really wish I had picked it up.
milemaker13 writes:
It may well have been a NAA revolver; they do make a cap-n-ball mini, too (or did at least. I'm not sure if it's still on their site.)
It would have been a really neat little deal, especially with the loading press making it easier to load up.. how do you even load these little brass ' vest pocket' derringers? Lol, seems tricky at best.
On the regular ones, you pull the cylinder pin and drop the cylinder out. Then you load up the cylinder, put it back in, and re-insert the pin.It would have been a really neat little deal, especially with the loading press making it easier to load up.. how do you even load these little brass ' vest pocket' derringers? Lol, seems tricky at best.
For carry, there's a notch between each chamber. You want the hammer resting in the notch rather than on a live round. To get it there, you pull back on the hammer and then manually rotate the cylinder until one of the notches is under the hammer. Then you lower the hammer into the notch. Carefully. Very, very carefully.