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    Field/Farm Use of Cap & Ball Revolver

    You were thinking along the same lines I was the moment you mentioned his poor foot. I don't like to see anything suffer, either. We have a couple of cats, and I see them in even the big predator cats.
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    Field/Farm Use of Cap & Ball Revolver

    Solid point. A good 9mm SD round costs about $.90. A typical .454 lead ball can run about $.10, and a typical cap can run about $.10. Add a penny for the powder charge, and you're looking at a total of $.21 to fire one round from a BP revolver. That means there's a $.69 savings firing a shot...
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    Field/Farm Use of Cap & Ball Revolver

    The pins on my Pietta 1860 seem like it would take a pretty deliberate effort to break them off. As for the notches in my Remington cylinders, they all hold the hammer solidly, and nothing could break the edges of those notches without destroying the whole revolver.
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    Field/Farm Use of Cap & Ball Revolver

    I just noticed your avatar. Why didn't you pick Grizzly Adams for your screen name?
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    Field/Farm Use of Cap & Ball Revolver

    I'm pretty comfortable resting the hammer between chambers with my percussion revolvers and would carry either of them that way if I had to. I practice resting the hammer between the chambers when I fire live at the range. That's just me, though. I look at worst-case scenarios, such as really...
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    Field/Farm Use of Cap & Ball Revolver

    Out of the box (with the exception of adding Slixprings nipples), I've found my revolvers to be pretty reliable if I do my part properly loading and capping them. I still wouldn't look at them as a preferred alternative to something truly modern, though. It's one thing to load a revolver at...
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    Best screwdrivers for Colt revolvers and replicas

    I got that 72-piece Wheeler set for my birthday about eight years ago, and it has been great for all of my guns, modern or black powder.
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    Best Reassembly Oil

    That looks pretty solid. Thanks for the visual. Is that filled all the way so you can see it up to the base of the hammer when it's cocked?
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    Best Reassembly Oil

    Do you just squeeze the stuff into the action from the opening at the base of the hammer?
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    Best Reassembly Oil

    Frog Lube is what I use to coat everything when I finish cleaning, too. Fouling mostly comes off with a dry paper towel, and the test comes off with paper towels dampened in some commercial bore solvent that smells foams up like Windex. Speaking of Windex, that's probably what I'll use when...
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    Nice plastic grips for cap and ballers

    Those do look pretty good and would make a nice functional feature for a revolver that gets hard use. One could save the factory wood to keep those from getting scraped up if s/he wanted to keep them nice.
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    New Pietta"s cap size

    Yeah, the Remington's nipples are best accessed with an in-line capper. I went ahead and got four of the 15-cap ones so I can just preload them the night before going to the range.
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    Relative strength between percussion models

    I found mine at Impact Guns back in 2019. I just managed to get it before supplies started to dwindle.
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    Relative strength between percussion models

    Is that the stainless Remington? That's the one I have.
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    Let me guess--are you holding high enough up on the grip that you can wrap your pinky around the grip? I started out shooting my Uberti Remington that way, and I was getting my knuckle whacked, too. The short grip is designed for the pinky to go under the grip. Holding it that way, I don't...
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    New Pietta"s cap size

    And CCI #10s are too small even for factory nipples. They usually require two strikes to detonate--one to pound them down onto the nipple farther and another to detonate them.
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    New Pietta"s cap size

    Cabela's is pretty limited in its presence around the country, so for most, Remington #10s are effectively non-existent. You're the only person who seems fortunate enough to find them. CCI #11s seem to be about the most common--or frequently the only--caps people can find 90% of the time...
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    New Pietta"s cap size

    Where do you find Remington #10s?
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    New Pietta"s cap size

    You're welcome.
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    New Pietta"s cap size

    Snugly and properly.
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