for safety reasons when shooting BP revolvers after the ball is seated and before it is capped the remaining space in the chamber is filled with grease. most use something like crisco. i like to use bacon grease because it makes the range smell ilke cooked bacon. (i know it’s sa;ty but i clean up right afterwards so not worried. the grease prevents the the flash from the firing chamber getting into another chamber and fireing another ball. if you are holding a rifle your hand is in front of the cylinder. this is why cicil war sharpshooters quickly rejected the revolving cylinder rifle.
thx
Come on be brave.
Shoot a revolving carbine without that messy grease, you don’t need two hands anyway.
Yea there is a real good reason they weren’t real popular.
I do not have personal experience with cap-and-ball revolvers. I have only a muzzle loading rifle. That said, I read a very detailed post on another forum in which the writer talked about the grease being a great path for chain fires. Instead, he chamfers the opening to each individual bore in the cylinder. That way, the ball gets swaged into place, eliminating the need for any other material. Using this method, the write-up said he had never experienced a chain fire accident. Just a thought, which would appear easy enough to verify.