Confederate Spiller & Burr Revolver (Presentation!)

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• RI

  @RichCommander · 6 years ago

  They still produced 1400 guns by then end of the war. For any domestic CSA gun manufacturer that’s actually not bad.

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• 1G

  @1guyin10 · 10 years ago

  It wasn't just materials for the guns.  They also did not have materials for factory tools.  If something broke there was a good chance it was just going to stay broken.   That would make it very difficult to turn out the kinds of materials needed to support a war effort.

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• HA

  @harpomarx7777 · 5 years ago (edited)

  The iron loading levers soon broke under use and a Whitney steel loading lever was used as a replacement. You're not likely to find one with the original S&B loading lever; if you do, it's likely a fake. Also, examined up closely, you can see the twisted striations in the cylinder iron .. much like a stick of twisted taffy.

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• NI

  @nicklewis7291 · 3 years ago

  I appreciate how you give all the information possible. You even tell what information is missing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on all these tremendous weapons.

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• ZG

  @ZGryphon · 10 years ago

  I love how unsubtly shady things were back in those days.  At least nowadays an arms company would try to PRETEND one of its founders wasn't involved in making purchasing decisions for its principal customer.  (See also, the LeMat/Gen. Beauregard connection mentioned in a previous video.)  Back then?  Eh, who needs deniability? Meanwhile, Tucker & Sherrard were over there playing the classic Eli Whitney "spend the government's advance on something else" scam... it's all so cheerfully blatant.  It's a shame industrial corruption isn't still so lacking in pretense.

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• DE

  @dennisyoung4631 · 3 years ago

  “Twisted iron” sounds like they were starting with wrought iron, then “twisting/folding” the stuff to get excessive slag and impurities out of it.

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• AD

  @adrianlarkins7259 · 10 years ago

  Ian, you really now your history and you speak so fluently without notes. You also have a natural enthusiasm which comes over to the viewer. Well done.<br>Being in mind your comments on manufacture, I din&apos;t think I would in a hurry to fire it.

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• MA

  @marklandwehr7604 · 3 years ago

  I remember that this pistol was made from melting down Southern statues to use the brass to make these pistols because as it is a softer metal was easier to machine

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• GR

  @greghardy9476 · 6 months ago

  The grips on that are beautiful.

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• DE

  @DeerHunter308 · 10 years ago

  As a collectible gun this is a ten out of ten. &nbsp;As an illustrative device in microcosm it is also very good at pointing out some of the manufacturing problems the South tried to overcome, but ultimately failed at. &nbsp;Super video.

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• SR

  @sr633 · 10 years ago

  Even if they were able to make an exact copy of a Colt revolver there wasn&apos;t any steel available to complete them with.

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• MR

  @mr.gunzaku437 · 6 years ago

  I love Confederate weapons! The different types, quality, and the sources are fascinating!

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