{"id":3690,"date":"2016-02-20T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/adams-revolver-1851\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:31:59","slug":"adams-revolver-1851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/adams-revolver-1851\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams Revolver 1851"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fcBsVaH_gew?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Robert Adams 1851 English 5-shot revolvers can be cocked and fired simply by pulling the trigger.  This would allow an officer or cavalryman to hold the revolver in his left hand while still holding a sword in his right.  However, trigger cocking means a heavy trigger pull, not good for long range accuracy but &#8211; hey &#8211; ideal for close range fighting at sword distance.<br \/>\nEarly Adams revolvers used lead bullets that could be pushed into the chamber by hand.  They had a leather disk to hold them in place, so they were quick to load but risked the balls falling out if jolted.<br \/>\nAs with all English revolvers of the time, they required a lot of skilled hand finishing, consequently parts were not interchangeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robert Adams 1851 English 5-shot revolvers can be cocked and fired simply by pulling the trigger. This would allow an officer or cavalryman to hold the revolver in his left hand while still holding a sword in his right. However, trigger cocking means a heavy trigger pull, not good for long range accuracy but&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/adams-revolver-1851\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adams Revolver 1851<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15404,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/15404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}