Re: Reloading a revolver
It depends on the revolver. Modern double action revolvers have the swing-out cylinders that you can reload fairly quickly.
Old-west single action revolvers, even with the cartridges you do one at a time. Poke the old cartridge out slip in a new one, flip to the next hole. Goes fairly quickly, but I would still say 3 or 4 phases total. And then there are the ones like bend in half like the Smith & Wesson No 3 (Also variations Schofield or Russian) and the Merwin-Hulbert where you can reload to whole cylinder at once. But they were fairly rare.
Cap and ball percussion revolvers, some of them you can replace the cylinder fairly easy, some of them it's a major evolution. So it depends on the model. Like in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". When he hears the guys with spurs in the hallway and has to put his pistol back together real quick. That's a cartridge revolver but it's a conversion of a percussion revolver.