How a LeMat Revolver works
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- The LeMat revolver was a .42 or .36 caliber cap & ball black powder revolver invented by Jean Alexandre LeMat of New Orleans, which featured an unusual secondary 20 gauge smooth-bore barrel capable of firing buckshot. It saw service with the armed forces of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War of 1861-65 and the Army of the Government of National Defense during the Franco-Prussian War.
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remember, dying and respawning is always faster than reload
Remember: "Switching to your sabre is faster than reloading this monstrosity."
I catch it but LeMat revolvers didn't exist when Sabre was used
@@trcksnd6497 …yes it was. It was used by confederate cavalry man in the civil war. Cavalry still used sabers extensively
@@trcksnd6497 yes they did..
@@trcksnd6497 it was literally used by generals and Calvary rarely infantry
All cap and ball weapons were slow to reload. 😂
Looks like a pain in the ass to reload all that
Better than reload after every single shot.
@@nazarenosilva4478 true
But once you ran out
You'll be dead before you get a chance to load the whole thing
@@guts-141That´s what the center barrel are for. If surprised vile loading the other chambers you have that one if some one sneaks up on you.
Hell yeah it is!
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@@guts-141 you dont need to load all the chambers at once. You can just load one for emergency
Commander:"we're being attacked!"
Soldier:"oh shoot, I didn't reload my revolver!"
Commander:"start shooting"
Soldier:"yeah, hold on"
Commander: *gets shot*
Soldier"k, I'm done, what did you want me to do?"
Takes too long to reload, won't be much effective in today's war. But I like the idea of putting a shotgun-like barrel underneath the revolver.
Today's war????? the wright brothers kitty hawk would be much good in a dogfight against an F16 in today's war either lol
Bombs are for pussies
I have a working replica of one, the shotgun is extremely uncomfortable to shoot, though not as uncomfortable as it is for anyone in the general direction you shoot it. ;)
Well it's from the 1860s so I would guess there has been a few advances in technology since then
S&W M19 Yeah just a few just some very minor ones I’m sure you can still take out an F-15 raptor one of these revolvers :)
Everybody is laughing until this goes to cartrige conversion. Any way, beautiful mechanism.
People be saying that the guns too long to reload, but come on. It only needs to work once and boom, skipped reload time
Updating the reload method to current models with cartridge, it would be a perfect weapon, 9 shots and 1 extra shotgun, I don't know why they don't, well yes, chargers already occupy the market.
great gun ..... if you're a freakin' octopus !
What are the red things put after each reloading?
They are caps that create a small flame/explosion when hit by the hammer. It's what lights the gunpowder.
The whole war will be over by the time you’re done reloading this gun.
😂😂😂
at the time, the only option was a single shot. if you could take out 4 with one gun, in time, you would over take a single shot army. remember, they have to reload too
@@gregsmith7828 r/woosh
@@illuminat3379 dont battle facts with shit jokes. You mofos think war back then was bland and so easy.
don't worry, it is for the next war
Damn red dead online players reload this like sonic speed
They wanted the gun, but wanted it to be more practical than it is iin real life. If players had to reload this gun in full length every time, nobody would ever use it because every other gun has reloads that are 30x faster.
To my understanding, they changed the model of the LeMat Revolver in-game to take actual bullet casings (or cartridges) so that it reloads more like the Cattleman Revolver. Although, the shotgun portion is still muzzle-loaded.
@@Shilobotomized Dont know you are blind but model in the game have no loading port like cattleman or not opening cylinder like other guns if you look coutiously you can see player using the reloading thing on barrel of the gun its muzzle loading but its rdr, characters have super human reloading skills even cattlemans reloading much faster than real life. In real life you eject and reload all round manually. caharacter in rdr hold the bullets extact and reload the new ones all with one hand other hand holding the gun its not a sim just a arcade game.
@@Filo181. Well sorry if I didn't use the LeMat in first person and observed how it was reloaded at high speeds.
My point was that the reload NEEDS to be fast so that it can be a viable weapon. Like you said, it's not a sim it's an 'arcade' game.
I mean, we agree on the subject. so what is there to argue about?
@@Shilobotomized I agree with your last comment
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Say what you want about the practicality, it's a beautiful design!
wondledonkey And for a cap and ball revolver it’s perhaps one of the best designs there is but it wasn’t issued on a wide scale so I’m not sure about that statement but nine shots is better than six in my mind so.
plus the extra shotgun barrel
It’s just cool lookin.
All revolvers loaded like this before the invention of cartridges...
@@tuxstfilms7547 q
Really? I think it looks pretty ugly
Lemat in IRL: Slow ass reload
RDO: *I am speed*
Well LeMat did later (but still before RD) make a cartridge version of the LeMat revolver. Although they were rare af.
To all those (like me) spoiled by quick mag changes, complaining about how long to reload;
A- 10 total shots was super high capacity in a time when most had single shot muskets still
B- with practice could be loaded as fast as a Navy Colt
C- from what I've read mostly officers carried these as last resort/self defense considering they were usually surrounded by their own infantry
D- regardless of it's specs now, when it was new, compared especially to other pistols, it was a major force multiplier.
If I were alive back then it's the handgun I'd wanna pack
PS- I've known about this gun since I was a kid in the 80s, not from red dead lol
i don’t complain, but thanks for the info
I love this weapon in red dead 2 especially dual wielded
Having 20 shots ready fire off is great
But man are they cheating on the reload times
I know why they did this. To keep gameplay fast and exciting but it's crazy how slow this thing is compared to it's in game depiction
A good shotgun too.
They kinda cheated by applying the real life factor of it taking paper cartridges rather than the old fashioned “fill the damned thing with black powder, replace the percussion caps, and ram the round in the damned thing.”. Instead, they put the paper cartridge (which contains the black powder and the ball), then ram it in. I think they skipped replacing the percussion caps on purpose, but then again, maybe in the world of RDR the le mat revolvers have all been converted to contain a firing pin conversion? I don’t know
@@blackknight1168 probably. thats why theyre so fucking expensive
@@blackknight1168 You haven't seen the reload animation in hunt showdown
@@MrHouse-yo1uw but the hunt’s version of lemat is heavily altered
Jesus Christ.. ....!
I can only imagine the pain in reloading this during a fire fight.....!
You dont. You carry about 7 diffrent revolvers. Shoot it till its empty and draw another one
@@zanetora8095 the problem is that its was expensive
@@nobody-cy8vn if you could afford a lemat then you can afford a bit.
At least you're luckier than musketeers. 1 shot, 1 reload. I suppose at that time only officers and cavlary have pisol
It would which is why those who had such guns often had multiple guns. It would have been an officer's sidearm or cavalry, both of which tended to come from the more wealthy of society and could afford the advantage. Even before revolvers came about, cavalry often carried multiple single-shot handguns, several on their person and more on their saddle.
The real truth on how the CSA lost the civil war:
*They took too long to reload their gun*
you do realize that ALL firearms at this time where single shooters right? long barrels had to be reloaded between each shot. its why the bayonet was standard issue.
for fucks sake they issued SWORDS to infantry.
@@nunyanunya4147 the CSA had rifles like kentucky rifles used from the American Revolution. While the Union had faster loading trapdoor springfield rifles and repeaters
We'll the south didn't do too bad. I mean the North suffered more than double the causalities the south had.
Note: North out numbered the south 5-1
Just saying. 🤷♂️ i have a friend from Massachusetts and we debated this quite a few times. South lost but the North didn't get the W easy. South also had wayyyyyy better commanders and generals.
Mah gawd you guys know what joke is?
They forgot to show the loading lever breaking off while reloading. Most times the loading arm was removed because it was essentially useless. This is the second model leant, the first model had the loading lever on the opposite side like most of its contemporaries. Much stronger design.
Rockstar gonna make this look unreal when it comes out in red dead online. The reloading animations in the game are absolutely crazy
Cameron0717 probably true. Unless they skip half of the reloading process to a shorter version that wont make any sense to the gun
Cameron0717 yea I got it. They obviously didn’t bother doing the whole thing and 6 seconds already feels long😂
oh i got it never use LeMat in world war 3
@Merc Kitsuné r/Wooosh
@@Pot-nm6ir there was a joke?
Why would you use an obsolete gun in a modern day war?
Might as well, sticks and stones, out dated firearms in a battlefield of radioactive rubble.
It was still much more effective than single shot muskets. Crazy times when officers and cavalrymen had such an advantage over regular soldiers
Some soldier had them as personal weapons
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How the Lemat revolver was made
A musket
A shotgun
And a revolver all had a baby
Till the people of that time reloaded this gun, he might be forgotten why was he fighting for.
Lol
The rebel infantry certainly did when the war became about slaves rather than independence, especially since most rebels didnt even own slaves.
I Love the Lemat Revolver its so unique like 2 guns in one. But damn look how long it takes to reload no wonder confederate officers hated it.
“I can only imagine reloading this during a firefight!” Actually, with your surplus ammo capacity, you’d probably just wait for THEM to reload.
Just imagine, after reloading and dodging bullets simultaneously, you are just about ready to get back into the fight when you slipped and dropped the gun into a puddle and then comprehend, that actually happened.
You will just about lose all fighting will at that point, I'd imagine.
That would be hilarious 🤣🤣😂
Actually if you reload cap&ball revolver with right size ball and if you use good percussion caps it will shoot even if you submerge it in the water for a while.
Notice he put a plug in after the charge and the lead ball in front. It could have withstood being dropped in water briefly as the water would not reach the powder and the caps are self contained.
To me, it would be a sign of luck. If i werr to fight in that day, i would probably die, but the universe said: nope, go to safety
This is why I only use cartridge conversion revolvers. Never was a fan of cap & balls.
Really surprised the center second barrel design never took off in other guns.
I don't see why there are complaints about the "difficulty" in reloading this. It's no different from any cap and ball revolver.
Imagine being a Calvary soldier with four of these, and a carbine. Riding directly into a line of infantry that only had one shot!
1min reload 3second shooting
Imagine reload this in a middle of a fight
1 This revolver is mirrored, the loading lever should be on the right side if the gun, not the left.
2. Paper cartridges were very popular for cap and ball revolvers. Very few people actually used loose powder
Most were on the right but at some point they were manufactured by different people and they put the rod on the left
finally somebody uses the word "loose" correctly.
Will it fail in high humidity?
most likely
Probs dont get the powder wet
Longest reloading time in the world
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@@lesbretonsdominentlejapon2848 Chill out dude
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Obviously the Evans repeating rifle.
@@Jorakful Evans is junk. It has a huge loading flaw that could cost you ur life. And if you mean in red dead, its junk there too
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I love this gun, one of my favorites from the 19th century. I’m honestly kind of surprised that the 9 round cylinder didn’t become standard in modern day revolvers.
9 rounds makes for a pretty big cylinder. I have one of these bad boys and it's huge and heavy. I think modern revolvers went to a standard 6 or 5 (occasionally 7, much less occasionally more) because it's the optimal configuration to get that many rounds into the cylinder while still retaining a good amount of steel in between them, in an overall smaller package.
play rdr2
This video was great
The handgun as also made in the cartage fire model, not just the Cap and Ball
I have always been on the lookout for one
would like to see this classic piece of hardware remade by the great dan Wesson in modern metals in a 9' round cylinder and in 4' different calibers and the shot gun round a 410' shell
Shotgun is 20 ga
I would enjoy a modern lemat with newer hardware: ie. Cased ammo and break action/cylinder release. But it has to be able to have the big barrel with it and capable to shoot with ease to reload
Thinking up one for my brother, 44 magnum with 12 gauge middle barrel and top break reload. Also thinking of moving the shot barrel switch on the trigger to the middle since it will be using all modern ammo. Not sure if 12ga is too much tho. I'm a total noob so this idea might not even get made, but it sure would be fun to do.
@@jamesgarlick4573 sounds interesting
For you kiddos who complain about the reloading speed, remember that in the war of independence, they were using muskets. This one here is already a technological achievement
"A good rifleman could reload his gun in 20 seconds."
LeMat users: *Visible jealousy*
Should carry 4 on you at all times. Probably take all day to reload them, but I find it fascinating to see a mini shotgun in a revolver.
Percussion caps go on after the powder is loaded? I don't think so
I think from the safety point of view loading caps after gun is loaded is more safe?!
I must say its good when you reloaded it earlier than reloading it still from a nearby enemy
Its take a long time just to reload the gun, the soldier really need backup while reloading.
Imagine some dude saw this monstrosity and asked "Can I make this thing load cartridges? Can I make it a break open like the Schofield?" and basically turned the Lemat into a revolver machine gun
you know where i can find the lemat revolver´s diagram [ side view, real size ] internal mechanics and all things that i will need to make ?
because i want make a hybrid revolver from lemat and single action army or colt navy.
I own a black powder cap n ball 44. Cal with six shots and it's an absolute bitch to reload, I can only imagine trying to relpad 10 shot while in a firefight with this, but it's a super cool gun still.
As a Black Powder Shooter, lemmie tell yall a few things.
1. While this looks almost comical today, this thing was an absolute BEAST. If the terminator showed up two hundred years ago, this is the gun he'd be sporting.
2. Most guns back then could only load a single shot at the time, with the exception of six shooters. So, consider the scale. The average rifle had one shot. The new fangled revolver had six. And this beast had nine that could be loaded at once, with an additional mini-shotgun payload! That's nine rifles and a shotgun all compacted into a single monster.
3. Yes, this would take FOREVER to reload. But in reality, it'd only take slightly longer than loading the average six shooter, and it'd actually be FASTER than loading a revolver and a shotgun separately.
In conclusion, this is the pinnacle of black powder revolvers.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Hidden (not officially in theirs and other old players guide) Best Revolver that could obliterate any body parts using the Shotgun buckshot Shell. A lot of old players don't know that. Only purchasable unlock after a party with most influential interesting people in the game. This video shows how its stats in reloading takes time and enlightens the gamers.
I wanna see a modified version of this that accepts .45 and have easier reloads (especially the shotgun part) but that's probably going to be unlikely
Nice vid, thank God RDR2 character reload this revolver at God speeds
Imagine if all the gangbangers in America had these instead. You’d get about five minutes of peace between everybody reloading 😂
Now i know why the reproductions of that revolver is so expensive very complicated mechanism for something invented over 100 years ago
And now I remember reloud in red dead redemption 2 online
So basically you have 10 shots and then you're fucked because reloading takes about 15.5 years
holy fuck thats why its so fucking powerful in rdr2 from a long range but it doesnt take this long to relod it
To bad they weren't able to make a effective cartridge version. They tried and had a few prototypes but the cylinder was so fat and bulky and the overall gun weighed like 10 pounds, it was deemed a lost-cause.
Imagine reloading while under pressure of enemy fire and also pressure of the enemy closing in on your position
Thing is that if u missed all of ur 9 bullets plus the shotgun. Why would u reload anyway
By the time you reload this, Arthur is already dead and your family is in beechers hope.
since rock star wanna make red dead so realistic, they shouldve made the lemat's reload time more realistic. lol
This was the age before bullets with casings became the norm. For the better because this takes the entire Godfather movie just to reload the whole thing.
Surprising thing is that caps are still used to this day... Not for lethal force, but for cap guns.
So Borderlands 3’s Vladof is actually a Le Mat descendant. Cool. Ha
HES OUT OF SHOTS
*chuckles as he switches to the shotgun*
Imagine someone gets into a fire fight with this gun
Carry preloaded cylinders with multiple firearms at your side
In it's day it would be the undisputed winner since everything else only held 6 shots and reloaded in the same way (or worse) as this.
A rifled musket with a bayonet was the primary weapon. A foot solider would draw a revolver in an emergency and it would not be reloaded in battle.
For officers it would be revolver first, sword second.
In past : firearms has a big caliber even a pistol,hard to reload but has a massive damage
In future : firearms has a smaller caliber,but has a excellent acuraccy and penetration
velocity and projectile are key
Ролики состряпаны так что неясны причинно следственные связи. Нет работы механизма в целом крупным планом. Гавно.
Got rods both for the pistol and shotgun. This gun must be heavy.
How are barrels aligned ? There are no marks on the chamber
To all who remark about its reload time. There's a few reasons why this was so advanced. First of all. I think the shotgun was for emergencies only. You'd save that so if when you run out on the ammo in the cylinders and someone attacks, you then flip the switch and use the shotgun to keep you safe and shoot the attacker. Many I think... think a user would fire all the pistol balls and then also fire the shotgun. Then reload. I don't think it was meant for that. The shotgun was your "ace in the hole" so to speak. Using it this way means you never was fully unloaded at anytime. Next, if you look at the design of the shotgun, it's pretty genius. Let's use Russian roulette as an example. If you spin the chamber with one bullet, you never know when it will shoot. With the design we see here, you always assured that the shotgun is in the center and ready to fire... always! So even if you're unsure of is the next round is loaded or not, you know the shotgun is ready with a flip of the switch. Lastly, people back then carried 2, sometimes 3 or 4 pistols. So they just switched guns when they was out of ammo. So if you had two of these and a rifle, you was a God back then I'm sure lol
So many uneducated folks round here. Y'all need to learn more about 19th century guns.
The LeMat is what is called a "Cap and Ball" revolver: the standard handgun type during the 1860s. These revolvers couldn't use modern metallic cartridges, so each chamber had to be loaded individually with black powder and lead bullet (either ball shaped or conical shaped).
Load powder and projectile in each chamber and seal them off with beeswax. Each chamber had inserts for metal caps (called nipples) to placed on them, which were needed so the gun's hammer could strike it and ignite the black powder inside the chamber and send the bullet out of the barrel.
A popular alternative to loading loose powder and bullet are paper cartridges. These contained the powder and bullet inside a nitrate paper container coated with beeswax. Needless to say they are a lot faster than the former method.
Many of these cap and ball revolvers were later converted to use metallic cartridges in the 1870s. The cylinder is replaced with a cartridge cylinder and a loading gate added for inserting cartridges.
Reload will take 15 seconds.
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Man, imagine a modern one of these shooting 357 magnum and 20 gauge shells.
Why not do 454 Casul, or S&W 500 with 16 gauge, or 12 gauge (heck, even 10 gauge) shells.
That would be a beast
Where's my rdro lemat users? (Things awesome lol)
Make one for the Walker or 1851 navy
So if you are in a battle and the you wist all your bullets you are a dead man ☠
LeMat was basically the first handgun with something similar to a grenade launcher
Shotgun 20 ga
Any way a modern version of this can be made that uses cased ammo
fuck reloading, just build a me a new one in that time
Mmmm looks like similar to metal cap gun, lemme try it out.
What happens if you try to shoot it without those red cap things?
Hallo, is it possible to get the IGEs or STEP model of the LeMat? I would like to build a blank amunition (9x17 Knall blank and 12x70 shotgun blank) conversion.
Did anyone ever do a version of this that takes cartridges?
The M16 +GL of its time.
revolver from time from ounce man or from ounce, Brazil-RJ
Should just got detachable cylinder instead
Bruh, put on slight of hand.
How dissamble and asseemble cf 98 9mm china pistal
looks like it's dangerous tho. what if the barrel get too hot and then you add the powder just so you can have it blow on your face?
mhhh dont know... i think u need impact or some crushing effect to light a modern primer to a cartridge... dont know about the old days bu my guess is you'd need a few hundred degrees to light the gunpowder so i wouldnt be too afaraid of that happening
why are the extra balls being shoved into the barral below
Sick weapon to hurt your bullies!
i like the lemat. it inspired me to sketch out a philippine version (i'm from philippines) that is conceal-carry chambered in 9mm parabellum, has nine round capacity, with the barrel maybe an inch longer than the original (which is optional) so you can use it at long ranges. my original idea was for it to fire in .45 acp, but it would make the revolver big so i went to 9mm (one of the available handgun ammunition here in philippines that i think is suited for this gun i designed). central barrel is chambered either in 12 or 410 gage.
9mm in a revolver would be highly impractical since 9mm is designed for pistols and revolvers use heavy cartridges since they take longer to load than a pistol, can't hold as many rounds as a pistol and shoot slower than most pistols. .357 Magnum would be a more practical choice as it is literally a 9mm round with a longer case, higher muzzle velocity and more stopping power.
The chamber is so big with 9 rounds that it would be difficult to consider it a conceal carry. That is the reason many gunslingers used 5 or fewer round chambers in their revolvers. Any more than that and it is too large and heavy to carry around and conceal.
20 gage
Very old mechanical practice.
I didnt know the LeMat has a multi bullet barrel
Fortnite players: the double barrel shot gun takes so long to reload
Me: laughs in Lemat revolver
1 hour later.....
Me imagino a los cowboys y soldados portadores de este arma en su época en pleno tiroteo y se les acaba la munición... que pesadilla tuvo que ser, aunque al menos supongo que aprovecharían bien los tiros. Suerte que luego llegaron los revólveres mucho más sencillos y relativamente rápidos de recargar