>I have a vague memory of watching an old Western once in which the
>hero's adherence to percussion ignition was a plot point. The film
>was set in the 1880s, long after metallic cartridges had become the
>norm, and the main character carried an 1858 New Model Army that
>hadn't been converted. There's a scene where he knows he's going to
>have to fight basically everybody in town the next morning, and he
>sits at a table in his rented room and painstakingly loads three or
>four whole cylinders for his gun, and during the giant
>climactic gunfight, he reloads by swapping them out wholesale when
>empty, which only takes him a couple of seconds - way faster
>than the bad guys can reload their SAAs pumping out one empty at a
>time.

Without going to look, I seem to remember the made-for-tv movie 'Purgatory' not only featureing this, but the sheriff, who had it, also had dedicated little 'pouches' on his gun-belt holding those pre-loaded cylinders, rather than the cartridge loops.

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