World's Oldest Revolver (1597) - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    The bullets would have been round lead balls. You could cast them yourself fairly easily. I would imagine the person who owned this would have been rich enough to have their own personal armorer to cast bullets for them.

    Here’s a mold:

    Then to load it you would follow the same procedures you would follow to load a normal flintlock pistol.