 used pistol in the American Civil War, but it's a much better pistol than the Colt, especially if you like to fire rapidly. It's much heavier made. It feels much more solid, and it could be loaded much faster than the Colt. To load this thing, again, it works the same, but you cock this, and all you have to do to load it, you can drop the cylinder out, so you can replace the cylinder. Here's the cylinder. And it's a little bit heavy, isn't it?