BBC: The Wild West-Custers Last Stand bp weapons

[elhombreconnonombre]

So I assume that each trooper had a sidearm, perhaps an SAA with 24 rounds plus his Springfield carbine with 100 rounds. The remaining ammo: I've read 50 rounds for carbine only per trooper was carried on the pack train which was following behind Benteen.
Does anyone know for sure what sidearm Custer was carrying? Some say it was a Royal Irish Constabulary Webley, but no cartridge cases matching that revolver have yet to be found anywhere on the battlefield AFAIK. If Custer truly was armed with a Webley and was wounded badly at the mouth of Medicine Tail Coulee before the last stand, that would make sense that no shell casings were found.

 

[Tommygunn]

Does anyone know for sure what sidearm Custer was carrying? Some say it was a Royal Irish Constabulary Webley....

That is also my understanding.
I'm not sure what to make of the supposed "absence" of the appropriate cartridges on "the battlefield" -- by which I suppose one would mean Custer Hill. There's an old saying, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." After 138 years of weather, rain, wind and storms, animal passings, and whatever, finding evidence might be a bit tricky. Metals degrade and rust. It's fascinating to me that they have found what they have and have matched it to guns or to other shells found elsewhere, due to firing pin marks.
I have a couple of books on the archeological investigations that have been done there.
They have done a good job and have taken it farther than I would have thought possible, and they're not done.
I have to wonder how many curiosity seekers passed that way in the years following the event and the early decades of the 1900s who "discovered" artifacts and pocketed them, making off with tidbits of history that now belong to some great grandson who has no idea what they are or what they mean save their gran-pa got them at the Custer Battlefield site.

As I said, I believe you're right about the revolver Custer had. Am I sure? No, not really, and that's because no one else is, either, even experts. I only "know" what I've read and those historians who put forth their opinion of what gun the General had always seem to do so with the straighforward caveat that it is their best information that is available but not etched in granite.