in the cylinder that the cartridge goes in usually 6 of them hence the term u201c six shooter u201d but some revolvers have 4 5 7 8 9 10 chambers in the cylinder depending on design and caliber what holds the cartridges in the chambers cylinder is called the u201c backplate u201d of the revolver which is part of the frame technically what mainly holds the cylinder in place is the cylinder pin in most single action designs and the crane and cylinder latch pins in most double action designs fig1 illustrates one embodiment of the present invention in the prior art ammunition is placed in a cylinder 20 from the front because the rear of the firing chamber has a smaller diameter than the bullet in other words the back end of the casing is about 0 32 u2033 wider than the rest of the round when you slide it into the hole or the chamber in the cylinder the round slides in and rest on the rim assuming the barrel is pointed somewhat upwardly however in the present invention 10 the cylinder 20 that holds the bullets 50 does not have the normal circular shaped chambers to hold bullets but has a shape as shown in fig2 this novel cylinder has a curved convex portion 60 meeting with a curved concave portion 70 for a five cylinder gun there would be 5 convex portions 60 integral with 5 concave portions 70 this novel cylinder 20 is capable of receiving a cylinder clip 40 the cylinder clip 40 has a shape that mates with the cylinder 20 for example the.