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Originally Posted by johndallman
Webley were making pepperbox and cap-and-ball revolvers before 1850. The cap-and-ball guns were double-action (or "self-cocking" in the terminology of the time). There isn't any detail on these in Howell's The Webley Story, but adapting numbers from Adventure Guns should work.
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If I recall double-actions never found much favor. They tended to malfunction and recocking can be done about as fast with a finger.