What's the best cap and ball revolver? Are they suitable for home defence?
>>64691929Colt Walker with the reloading lever taken off.>Why?It's da biggest and da strongest.
>>64691929Ruger old army
>>64691929>Are they suitable for home defense?Yes. Obviously a cap and ball firearm is less than ideal but you've still got six shots from a gun which is going to resolve nearly any encounter, and you can always buy two if you're that worried about ammo.
>>64691929>What's the best cap and ball revolver?Ruger Old Army.>Are they suitable for home defence?They're only slightly less suitable than a smokeless revolver, and those are great for HD.
>>64691929>Are they suitable for home defence?Yes. Six 140 grain metal balls traveling at ~1,000 fps will fuck someone up.
There was some british guy modifying modern czech revolvers to black powder but i cant find it anymore. I assume the govt got him or googles just such fucking dogshit now.
>>64692110>>64692220>>64692411Doesn't black powder get moist from lying in a drawer?
>>64692600There are ways to make it last longer. There was some European on YouTube who was coating the caps and chambers in wax and they went off flawlessly after a year. Can't find him now but he seemed pretty good for europe advice. Doing the best he could with black powder.
Where in europe are you that you can get blackpowder guns but not modern ones?
>>64691929some manner of 1858 or Ruger Old Army IF you can find one
>>64692779In Poland you can get cap and ball guns from before 1885 or their (functioning) replicas without a licence. Other countries have similar laws.
>>64691929.36 Colt Navy is roughly on par with .380ACP, so you'll be fine if a Habsburg B&Es at 3am.
>>64692098Thats not a Walker Colt retard. Colt 1860
>>64693192That was an answer to the fucking question not a comment on the image you turbo nigger.
>>64691929>bestTotally subjective. >suitable for home defense They're adequate for home defense, provided you know what you are doing. They're certainly better than nothing at all.
>>64692108You are correct, at least from the standpoint of the best model that existsAs someone who owns three, I will say anything in .44That limits OP to Colt Walker’s, Dragoon’s, those historically inaccurate 1851’s in .44, 1860’s, 1858Remington New Model Army’s, Starr DA or SA’s or if he can find them some of the British models like Adams or Tranters.I like how the Colt 1860 feels, it points nicely, but 58 Remington’s are arguably a bit more accurate because of the solid frame and not having the rear sight on the hammer. From a practicality standpoint if I could only have one, I would say a 58 Remington. It feels more like a modern revolver, with conicals it can achieve a lot of ft lbs of energy. That said I really like them both, never owned a Dragoon or Walker.Also, OP could consider a Lematt as they have 9 shots in total, plus a bunch of buckshot in the arbor pin which is also a shotgun barrel.
>>64692110Not that it’s historically accurate, but it’s very quick to change the cylinder on an 1858 Remington, you just release the loading lever, pull the arbor pin forward, put the gun on halfcock and pop the old one out and put a new one in, close the pin, close the loading lever. Makes cleaning it easier too.
>>64692600The powder is pretty well contained in the chambers and if you are using oversized balls which I advise everyone does it is water tight when capped.I use .457 balls in my .44’s.
>>64692772Was it CapnBall from Hungary?
>>64693192I don’t think it is.1860’s have a milled away area on the water table and a rebated cylinder.My guess, it’s a .36 1862 Police Barrel on a Navy frame, because the frame isn’t milled away the way an 1862 police would be, nor is the cylinder rebated. Also the barrel length, Colt never made the 1860 with barrels of that length, not that reproductions haven’t been, but it lacks the frame and cylinder features of an 1860.
>>646933701. Yes. Paul Harrell demonstrated the method in his video on cap and ball revolvers.2. I meant you could just buy two pistols.
>>64692110>you can always buy two if you're that worried about ammoDo any of them allow you to replace the drum quickly enough if you have 1 gun and 2 drums?
>>64693370The Remington 1858 https://youtu.be/KCKDsplALDc?si=5sEp9SGErVOtgmmohttps://youtube.com/shorts/QZifQmMqMlI?si=QVs593CuC6UkgimsOn a Colt you would need to loosen the screw on the arbor wedge, tap the arbor wedge out with a mallet, pop the barrel off, remove the cylinder, put aNew Cylinder on, put the barrel back in, reinsert the barrel wedge, possibly retighten the screw.
>>64691929>What's the best cap and ball revolver?Ruger old army.>Are they suitable for home defence?if your other option is begging the assailant to use lube, sure. If you can get a proper gun that's better. Unlike cartridges it just isn't a good idea to leave one loaded and capped and ready to go. Don't get me wrong, you can, I guess, but you're operating a far lower level of safety and effectiveness than modern firearms.
>>64691929There are conversation cylinders for some cap and ball revolvers that allow you to use 45 long colt as well.
>not carrying a shop keeper. I'm an honest man not a gun for hire.
>>64693352it was way more amateur and russian maybe. some guy holding a potato phone
