The Wrangler's unfluted cylinder rotates clockwise on a removable
base pin and is charged using the loading gate on the right side of the frame.
Shells are ejected by removing the cylinder
base pin, pulling out the cylinder and pushing the shells out one at a time with the pin.
To remove the cylinder, the frame-mounted cylinder
base pin retaining screw is depressed and the nitre blued
base pin is pulled forward and the loading gate opened.
Note, Brownells offers an extra power
base pin latch.
He makes a base-pin puller so you can remove a tight
base pin without marring it with a screwdriver trying to pry it out.
The six-shot 1873 Cattleman II disassembles into frame, cylinder, cylinder
base pin, and cylinder
base pin sleeve.
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base pin will tighten your cylinder up and add the stylish good looks of Elmer Keith's easy-to-grab, hourglass shaped base-pin head.
Another solution was a longer
base pin with two notches which allowed it to be pushed backwards, locked in place and then the hammer could not go forward and contact the primer of a cartridge.
Beware the
base pin safety on replica Single Action Army revolvers!
Third, and probably the most important, a locking screw has been added to the
base pin. This screw engages a detent machined into the barrel to ensure the
base pin does not back out under recoil.
This safety is just an extended cylinder
base pin. When the spring-loaded
base pin "button" on the dished-out portion of the frame in front of the cylinder is pushed in, it frees the cylinder
base pin, which can then be pushed in until the rearward portion protrudes out just enough from the back of the frame to block the hammer from falling all the way and striking the primer.