I now have the utmost respect for the settlers and cavalrymen of America circa the civil war era.

I've just blown some coal from my .44 revolver and the time it took me to reload, a war would be over. I can't even begin to imagine what it must have took to load and recap while the indians were trying to give me a haircut or while cannons and muskets all were spitting nastiness at me.

No wonder they all carried several cylinders loaded and ready for insertion. Even so, after a dozen shots it took me some effort to withdraw the cylinder pin
so that I could drop the cylinder out.

Do you think the redskins would have waited until I got my act together? No, I thought not.