See attached photo. Screenshot from Buford's stand on day 1 (Before Reynolds shows up). You can notice all the way to the left the reenactor is loading his muzzle. Is this:
1) Just an inaccuracy because no one's ever going to notice and they needed another body creating firing effects for the movie?
2) Maybe supposed to represent a local militia fighting alongside the cavalry? Is that how it happened? Were they intermingled alongside the Feds? OR
3) Do breachloaders sometime require the operator to do something to the muzzle end?
1) Just an inaccuracy because no one's ever going to notice and they needed another body creating firing effects for the movie?
2) Maybe supposed to represent a local militia fighting alongside the cavalry? Is that how it happened? Were they intermingled alongside the Feds? OR
3) Do breachloaders sometime require the operator to do something to the muzzle end?