RE: [DL] Speed Load Cylinders in d20

["William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>]

I seem to recall this coming up before in standard DL; someone pointed out 
that historically, you couldn't use a speed load cylinder in a Peacemaker, 
and as I recall the answer was something like, "yeah, we know, it's a bit of 
an anacorism, but it's more fun"

>From: frempath2@netscape.net
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: RE: [DL] Speed Load Cylinders in d20
>Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:17:28 -0500
>
>Speed load cylinders and "speed loaders" are not the same thing.
>
>A speed load cylinder is a pre-loaded cylinder of charges, much like a 
>magazine for a modern autoloader.  This will only work with the solid frame 
>percussion weapons such as the remington model 1858. When using it 
>regularly I could change cylinders in mine in about 15 seconds.  Now this 
>does not work with percussion revolvers such as colts as you must 
>disassemble the pistol to change the cylinder. The remington cartidge 
>conversion is not a great speed loader though, as to avoid pattent 
>infringement, the cylider was a 2 piece affair which was assembled and 
>placed into the revolver.
>Other manufacturers had pistols which had fixed cylinders which had to be 
>emptied and loaded 1 chamber at a time.  Smitth and Wesson with its line of 
>auto ejecting break top revolvers are able to be reloaded much more 
>quickly.  One of the selling points of the S&W line was in fact that a S&W 
>break top revolver could be emptied of spent shells, reloaded and fired in 
>the time it took a peacemaker just to be emptied of spent shells.  So 
>preloaded cylinders only for percussion revolvers is a resonable rule.
>
>A speed loader is a device which holds cartridges to place into an open 
>revolver cylinder.  For this to work you need either a side break or a top 
>break revolver, both Smith and Wesson inovations, and the side break is 
>still a few years off from this period, though you could push it in your 
>campaign.
>
>g'day
>frempath
>kevin jameson
>
>"Ole Ingvar Stene" <oleingva@ifi.ntnu.no> wrote:
>
> >The Deadlands d20 book claims that speed load cylinders can only be used
> >with ball n' cap weapons. This isn't the way it used to be in classic
> >Deadlands, is it? What gives?
> >
> >I want what is correct in the real world, what the rules say matters 
>not....
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