There were also American-made self-cockers. Savage-North made a Navy caliber gun with a figure-8 trigger that operated in the same manner and Starr produced a self-cocker in both the Navy and Army calibers. The Army caliber Starr was the 3rd most issued northern forces revolver of the American Civil War.
Awesome insightful video! The Tranters were considered to be amongst the best percussion revolves. They were produced in a variety of calibers from small up to 50 and 577 calibers. Did the English ,Canadian or Australian users of the Tranter cap&ball percussion revolvers use Combustible Paper Cartridges like the Americans did in their cap&ball percussion revolvers?
Tranter was a competitor of ADAMS ,The first Adams was "self cocking" but would only fire with a full trigger pull The Tranter was popular as it cocked the hammer & allowed deliberate touching off with the centre trigger in the guard.. so nice on the target range but with skill loading a cylinder took @ 1..2 minutes. with the round ball the grooved bullet with grease in the channel was desirable if the gun was to be loaded for some time it proved too complex in the heat of a close battle & quickly reverted to true double action (thumb cocking or long pull rising & falling hammer) the "SINGLE ACTION of the Colt ( cylinder turn & hammer ready to touch off ) was more usual in USA as targets were generally at longer distance. There was a grim rumour that frantic pulling of BOTH triggers resulted in a temporary "lock up" with Tranters fatal to the user! remember these guns are 150 + YEARS OLD real antiques! so do not try firing they are too valuable & really good steel was VERY scarce before 1870 and blow ups were fairly common . If you wish to shoot join a black powder club & use modern replica preferably stainless steel they are easy to clean & the actions are safe too. Yes these are a relic of the land wars, Remember the tribes had been absolutely slaughtered (by each other! ) prior to Treaty 1840 (@40000 dead not of @ 120000 population & captured victims were slaves (or worse yum!) disease was also a big problem! Much of todays "education" misses the truly aweful problems of our past! we need several view points without the advantage of metal ,cloth, fruit ,vegetables pigs sheep cows horses suckles wheat writing etc. Tribal life was Truly Hard in ways we cannot know! We are ALL just SO fortunate to live TODAY** YAY
Was this gun a favourite of a couple bushrangers? I know Ben Hall really liked it.
I have the same revolver with its box and accesories and a better finish
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There were also American-made self-cockers. Savage-North made a Navy caliber gun with a figure-8 trigger that operated in the same manner and Starr produced a self-cocker in both the Navy and Army calibers. The Army caliber Starr was the 3rd most issued northern forces revolver of the American Civil War.
Piece of weaponery art.
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Awesome insightful video!
The Tranters were considered to be amongst the best percussion revolves. They were produced in a variety of calibers from small up to 50 and 577 calibers.
Did the English ,Canadian or Australian users of the Tranter cap&ball percussion revolvers use Combustible Paper Cartridges like the Americans did in their cap&ball percussion revolvers?
Tranter was a competitor of ADAMS ,The first Adams was "self cocking" but would only fire with a full trigger pull The Tranter was popular as it cocked the hammer & allowed deliberate touching off with the centre trigger in the guard.. so nice on the target range but with skill loading a cylinder took @ 1..2 minutes. with the round ball the grooved bullet with grease in the channel was desirable if the gun was to be loaded for some time it proved too complex in the heat of a close battle & quickly reverted to true double action (thumb cocking or long pull rising & falling hammer) the "SINGLE ACTION of the Colt ( cylinder turn & hammer ready to touch off ) was more usual in USA as targets were generally at longer distance. There was a grim rumour that frantic pulling of BOTH triggers resulted in a temporary "lock up" with Tranters fatal to the user! remember these guns are 150 + YEARS OLD real antiques! so do not try firing they are too valuable & really good steel was VERY scarce before 1870 and blow ups were fairly common . If you wish to shoot join a black powder club & use modern replica preferably stainless steel they are easy to clean & the actions are safe too. Yes these are a relic of the land wars, Remember the tribes had been absolutely slaughtered (by each other! ) prior to Treaty 1840 (@40000 dead not of @ 120000 population & captured victims were slaves (or worse yum!) disease was also a big problem! Much of todays "education" misses the truly aweful problems of our past! we need several view points without the advantage of metal ,cloth, fruit ,vegetables pigs sheep cows horses suckles wheat writing etc. Tribal life was Truly Hard in ways we cannot know! We are ALL just SO fortunate to live TODAY** YAY