In this instructional video, the presenter demonstrates a complete, safety‑focused routine for handling a revolver. He begins by describing how to position the gun on a table and load cartridges using gravity, emphasizing the importance of keeping the muzzle pointed away from the hand. He explains checking the cylinder’s timing with a wiggle, ensuring the gun cannot fire while the cylinder is open. The video then covers single‑action cocking with the left thumb to keep the trigger finger steady, and details proper hand placement under the hammer. Next, the presenter outlines a solid shooting stance—feet, knees, butt, shoulders—and the correct grip, sight alignment, and trigger discipline (finger on the frame until after the shot). Finally, he walks through a safe unloading sequence, using the left hand as a support, operating the cylinder release, and removing the cartridges while keeping fingers away from the trigger area. Throughout, safety notes such as keeping the thumb behind the hammer and maintaining a safe direction are highlighted.
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Okay, here we go. All right, so for loading the revolver, index finger goes on the frame, fingers wrap around, we tilt the gun onto the table. This has a couple of reasons. One is so if I drop this and I have to reach, I'm not going to put my hand in front of the muzzle. Also, revolvers tend to be heavy, so it's much nicer to rest the revolver on the table. When we put the ammo in, we're letting gravity help us. With real ammo, sometimes you may have to push it in because it'll be tighter, uh, resistance here. So my left hand is going to grab the butt of the gun so that my right hand can rotate so the V of my hand is under the hammer. Okay. That I'm going to pick up and put in a safe direction. The reason I can have this down with this open is because as long as the cylinder is open, the gun cannot fire. The ammunition is here, the firing pin is there. Now that I'm in a safe direction, I can close the cylinder and give it a little wiggle to make sure that it's where it's supposed to be. The fact that it moved means it was not in where it needed to be. If you forget to do the wiggle part, you will not be able to move the hammer or the trigger because it'll be out of time. So next we're going to go in single action because see where the trigger is, we want to make it easier. We're using our left thumb to pull this down and back. Now the trigger is shorter, so it's easier to shoot. The reason we're using our left thumb and not our right thumb like you see so often is because when we move this finger, our thumb, this finger wants to move. We don't want our trigger finger to be moving, so by doing this with our left hand, we keep our trigger finger on the frame. Right thumb comes up, left thumb goes under the cylinder, palm and fingers. And for those of you worried about here and burning yourself, well, just make sure your thumb is behind here. All right, so here's your stance or your, your grip. Find your target, then you're going to do your stance. For here, it's feet, knees, butt, and shoulders, and we lean into our target, push out. I'm going to switch hands so that you all see. Once you're on target and you're looking at your sights, finger on trigger, good, pull the trigger. When you're done shooting, finger comes off onto frame before you take your sights off of the thing. All right, you want to walk around? We'll show you the unload part too. Okay, now we're going to unload. Left hand comes off, we bring the gun in front of us. Use your left hand as a, um, helper or shelf. There we go. So that we can move this hand, so our fingers away from the trigger area. Our right thumb needs to be able to push our cylinder release that way. Our middle finger and our ring finger are going to push up through the frame. We want to get the trigger guard to the base of our frame. Well, as our pinky and our index finger wrap around the frame, these two guys are holding the cylinder open. And our thumb is going to push everything out. And then we'll just put everything down. Voilà! Okay. And that is loading and unloading a revolver. And the shooting in between. And so it's
