[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The real trick was ejecting the percussion cap while cycling the next round. I’m sure a lot of guys were shot trying to unjam them.

[Rockingham]

Mercifully, revolver technology moved on pretty quickly. The power, size, and solidity of the Colt Walker did set a standard that Colt’s long-barreled Single Action Army (a/k/a Peacemaker) in .45 caliber well satisfied.

[Carriage Hill]

Josey Wales never had a problem with it. lol.

[G-Bear]

ImJustAnotherOkie said:

The real trick was ejecting the percussion cap while cycling the next round. I’m sure a lot of guys were shot trying to unjam them.

If you have ever seen any old cowboy movies from the 1930’s and 1940’s, you will see people pointing their revolvers straight up in the air when they cock them. This is because they were taught by real old-timers, who knew that if you did this, the fired caps would fall out, and not back into the gun.

I have fired my percussion revolvers in Cowboy Action shoots enough to know this works!

[Oatka]

The real trick was ejecting the percussion cap while cycling the next round. I’m sure a lot of guys were shot trying to unjam them.

I read that that was why you see guys flipping up they barrel as the cock the hammer so the spent cap falls (hopefully), by gravity, to the ground.