1860 short barrel Colt in slow motion

[Tom-ADC]

[Captainkirk]

Cool! That was an eye-opener!

[Pat/Rick]

Thank's Tom!!  That's really neat to be able to watch a chain of event's that happen in the blink of the eye!

One of the thread's over at Marlin Owner's has a slo mo of flintlock being fired. Very interesting in how a few spark's can ignite the pan. Most think of a horrendous shower of spark's like a grinder would produce, but in reality.....

Part of the clip's has a zippo wheel and flint hitting the frizzen. The frizzen only provides the surface for the wheel to turn on as the cock move's past. Actually a different take on the wheel lock I suppose.

I alway's liked the slo mo of firearm's, fun stuf!!

[mazo kid]

Pretty neat video!

[brazosdave]

This would almost confirm the whole "chain fires begin at the rear of the cylinder" argument

[Stillwater]

Until you see something like this, you wouldn't ordinarily  think that the cap, do to it's shape and position, would make that many sparks.

At least I didn't think that...

Bill