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SmallArmsTraining, No 68 and No 69 grenade seems exciting. I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Sweet. Many and abundant thanks.


Shot

Nice find...

Not sure I'd have been so uppity about the other guy's revolvers when still fielding the breaktop Enfield No. 2 in .38 S&W, though.

In that case, you have a small port that opens and allows you to change out a single case and cartridge. VERY slow. Any of the Enfield/Webly designs were just fine for their design of a top break system and they ejected the cartridges automatically for faster reloading. That's a HECK of a lot faster than opening a port, ejecting ONE case, inserting a cartridge, indexing the next port, ejecting that case, and so on.

Who you tellin'?....I have one...with awesome .38 S&W cartridge. Also shoot SA and it's not quite as sluggish as you might think, with practice.

Interesting there is no caution about firing 9mm Luger ammunition in a 9mm Glisenti. Since the cartridges are identical it's apparently an easy mistake to make. I wonder if anyone ended up wearing a Glisenti bolt in their forehead.

Single action unloading and loading actually goes much faster if you fully eject all the spent cases first, then load all at once, rather than as you've stated. Gun is angled up for ejection (might as well get gravity working with you in this thing) and then pointed down when it's time to load. Load time is no worse than a break-top, and unloading takes maybe five seconds.

That's what I'm saying, mostly.

The cited weapon (not the Enfiled) is the type that has a port, for ejecting SINGLE cases. The cylinder doesn't swing out NOR does it top break. Open port eject case, insert case, index next port, repeat until done. The only way to slow this down further is to have to ram ball and powder and affix caps.



But that requires speed loaders OR halfmoon clips. Even so, the Enfield can be emptied one handed while you reach the other hand in to grab the next set of ammunition OR you can hold another weapon or something, grip the Enfield under your arm and load it one handed. It was designed as a cavalry weapon.

I was speaking of SA revolvers. Those don't apply.