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Another consideration would be one of those cartridge conversions for a cap & ball revolver. You start off with the cap & ball, more or less the handgun of the period, but you have the cartridge conversion cylinder to shoot your modern ammo. The revolver itself would have to be custom made to be stronger than the typical cap & ball today - I would want it to work with magnum pressure loads. It would be stainless, but finished black.
But maybe do it the other way around - take something like my 329PD and have a cap & ball cylinder conversion made for it. Maybe a .44-40 cylinder too and maybe some of the other .44 caliber chamberings. Then have it modded/designed to make the cylinder conversion easy to swap out - I saw a double action conversion revolver that you just pull a pin and the cylinder and the crane came out - as easy as taking the cylinder out of a single action. Forget which make/model it was.
Personally, I don't know why I would bother to go back east and sell the design to a manufacturer - Browning made a living doing that, but I don't think he got rich from it until he decided to make his own guns.
But maybe do it the other way around - take something like my 329PD and have a cap & ball cylinder conversion made for it. Maybe a .44-40 cylinder too and maybe some of the other .44 caliber chamberings. Then have it modded/designed to make the cylinder conversion easy to swap out - I saw a double action conversion revolver that you just pull a pin and the cylinder and the crane came out - as easy as taking the cylinder out of a single action. Forget which make/model it was.
Personally, I don't know why I would bother to go back east and sell the design to a manufacturer - Browning made a living doing that, but I don't think he got rich from it until he decided to make his own guns.