Cap n ball pistols

[BillGabby1]

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Some cap and ball pistols of mine.
Andy

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Andy envy can lead to hate, and boy do I envy you.
Can't hate you though as you are a brother gun nut, you just have more toys than I do, and I'm sure someone envies what I possess, it's a cruel world. BP is sure fun though isn't it?
Gabby

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Black Powder is very fun indeed Bill.
As to envy ... well I hear ya there.
But there is no real need for envy as I share my collection. Either through going to various rendezvous or shows and playing "show and tell" or offering someone a chance to shoot an original gun when and where I can.
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

Black Powder is very fun indeed Bill.
As to envy ... well I here ya there.
But there is no real need for envy as I share my collection. Either through going to various rendezvous or shows and playing "show and tell" or offering someone a chance to shoot an original gun when and where I can.
Andy

You are a Gentleman, Scholar and a Judge of fine Whisky, that's about as nice a thing as I can say!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Thank ya Bill!
Although right now at 4.40 am its a mite early for whisky,
Coffee , strong and black is whats in the cup.
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

Thank ya Bill!
Although right now at 4.40 am its a mite early for whisky,
Coffee , strong and black is whats in the cup.
Andy

Well being a night owl 4:40 AM is about the same as 5:00 o'clock somewhere. LOL
Especially since I usually don't have to get up and go somewhere especially that four letter word WORK! Seeing as I'm Reetard. LOL
Gabby

 

[ditchtiger]

Had a couple Walker repro's a few years back. 60 gr's and the loading lever would drop when fired. 20 gr's was a pussy cat to shoot.

 

[BillGabby1]

Shot my buddies with 51gr and it wasn't bad at all lever did drop though. I'm glad my 1851 has a catch on it!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Yep , that catch is a nice thing to have.
Having shot a Walker copy on the range and having the lever drop , is a pain.
I don't like to think of what it was like when the shooting was "for real."
Andy

 

[tac]

I use a small rubber band to help the lever stay where it's meant to - HPC I ain't.

tac

 

[BillGabby1]

As I understand it the old timers would use a piece or leather tie string similar to leather boot strings, to hold it up in place, they could just slip it off when they reloaded. I imagine they had to keep an eye on the string too. LOL

 

[Ura-Ki]

Funny you mention this issue of the loading rod/lever, The Colt 1855's had leather "Pads" riveted to the for arm to hold the levers up. I do not know if this was a field expedient solution or not, but I have two originals, and they both have the leathers. My replicas do not, but they are so tight, they stay up on there own! I haven't gotten the newest replica yet, so I have no idea if it has these or not. I have seen old pictures of some pistols that used leather "string's" and I think this was a common idea back then.

 

[Capn Jack]

Years ago I bought one of those Tower Flintlock Pistol Repros.
The thing had a bore on it like a 12GA shotgun, so one day I decided I would try some bird hunting.
I loaded it up with some #6 shot and aimed it at fence line full of sparrows.
When that bugger went off it almost hit me in the head, the ram rod flew out and l thought my wrist was broken.
After that I found glass marbles made a great bullet. Hardly any recoil and they made a nice white spot
on things when they pulverized.

 

[BillGabby1]

Funny you mention this issue of the loading rod/lever, The Colt 1855's had leather "Pads" riveted to the for arm to hold the levers up. I do not know if this was a field expedient solution or not, but I have two originals, and they both have the leathers. My replicas do not, but they are so tight, they stay up on there own! I haven't gotten the newest replica yet, so I have no idea if it has these or not. I have seen old pictures of some pistols that used leather "string's" and I think this was a common idea back then.

All the photos I saw showed a catch like the one in this photo. They were a later design than the Walker and were improved it appears. As was the earlier 1851 Colt.
Gabby
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[ditchtiger]

Was one of the few gun sales that did not get turned back into my hobby. The Walker's sale went to a new washer and and dryer. Wife was happy and I had clean clothes.

 

[Capn Jack]

Yeah Ditchtiger,
Funny how that happens..
Marriage took my collection from 27 hand guns, 14 rifles and 2 shotguns, down to one .38 Spl.
That was 50 years ago though and now everything is paid for and my safe is too small.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Cap and ball, a few.

 

[BillGabby1]

Do they all speak Italian?

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Can they introduce me to Sophia Loren?
Andy

 

[bsa1917hunter]

Cap and ball, a few.
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Awesome collection. Some of the funnest times I've had have been with my cap and ball revolver in the desert of northern Nevada. Slayed many a jackrabbit (when I was a kid) with a reproduction 1858 New Army target model from Cabela's. Those were simple to load and surprisingly accurate for what they were. I have a 36 caliber revolver I inherited from my grandfather and it's a beauty. I forget what model it is or even how old it is. It's tucked away. Maybe that's a good excuse to dig it out and look at it...

 

[thorborg]

Thread title reads Cap n ball pistols. Since it did not mention Black powder I figure this fits the bill albeit I have added a few granules of triple X just to make things interesting.


though I'm missing a part this use to go bang (1 1/2 in)