Hey
I’m currently stuck at home with a wicked bout of “the running off” (I think it might be food poisoning ) so I’ve been on the YouTube and found a really neat video from our own Mark Hubbs from Era’s Gone Bullet Molds:
How cool! So it seems from the early pre-war days all throughout the war, there were many of these pistol cartridges made for the Colt Dragoon and later 1860 Army revolvers. They look and are made just like a smaller version of a musket cartridge:
Mark also has a video showing how these completed cartridges were bundles together in a packet of 6, with an empty cartridge tube holding about 8 percussion caps for the gun. My plan is to make some of these paper cartridges and bundles to place in the reproduction civil war pistol cartridge box I own. I think that would be so cool for a “grab n’ go” rig with my Pietta 1860 Army I just bought, with the gun in a period cavalry holster all on a Civil War belt.
Stay tuned gang! And also look forward to my review of the Pietta 1860 Army. Take care!
-Smokey
I’m currently stuck at home with a wicked bout of “the running off” (I think it might be food poisoning ) so I’ve been on the YouTube and found a really neat video from our own Mark Hubbs from Era’s Gone Bullet Molds:
How cool! So it seems from the early pre-war days all throughout the war, there were many of these pistol cartridges made for the Colt Dragoon and later 1860 Army revolvers. They look and are made just like a smaller version of a musket cartridge:
Mark also has a video showing how these completed cartridges were bundles together in a packet of 6, with an empty cartridge tube holding about 8 percussion caps for the gun. My plan is to make some of these paper cartridges and bundles to place in the reproduction civil war pistol cartridge box I own. I think that would be so cool for a “grab n’ go” rig with my Pietta 1860 Army I just bought, with the gun in a period cavalry holster all on a Civil War belt.
Stay tuned gang! And also look forward to my review of the Pietta 1860 Army. Take care!
-Smokey
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