Civil War DAO revolver.

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Interesting! Thanks Joe 

[Alpo]

Without a hammer, to put it on half cock, how do you release the cylinder to rotate to load it?

[Texas Joker]

There didn't appear to be a lot of cylinder stop from that hand, maybe just worked the trigger forward a touch

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

In the video, it looked like the cylinder turned freely when the trigger wasn't being pulled.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

A friend (RIP) had one of these.  I'd known him for three or four years before I knew he collected Civil War era handguns....lots of them.

 

A California collector paid his widow a "college education" for those guns.....the whole lot of them with a lot a accessories as well.

[Alpo]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

Without a hammer, to put it on half cock, how do you release the cylinder to rotate to load it?

I've also wondered, for a few years, how you put the percussion caps on a double action pepper box.

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

21 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I've also wondered, for a few years, how you put the percussion caps on a double action pepper box.

 

 

Pull the trigger a little bit to raise the hammer slightly,  rotate it by hand.

[Sedalia Dave]

Very Carefully

[Sedalia Dave]

22 hours ago, Alpo said:

Without a hammer, to put it on half cock, how do you release the cylinder to rotate to load it?

 

Watch when he has the side plate removed. 

The hand that rotates the cylinder also functions as the locking bolt to lock the cylinder in the proper position to fire. When the trigger is reset the cylinder is free to rotate. Notice that Ian did not need to pull the trigger to remove the cylinder.