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This is what I carry my 1851s in: 1849 “Californian” Holster – El Paso Saddlery baack when I got mine they didn't do the sewn-in toe plug.

Uberti's Color Case is a heated chemical bath in cyanide. Colt used/uses heat, bone & charcoal to color case harden the metal. A real difference in visual hues & intensity.

I once entered a shooting match with my Hawken against other shooters with cartridge single shots... I started with my regular target load of 50 grains, patched ball. Steel buffalo ¼ size @ 150 yards. After my 1st shot, a quick breath down the bore, dumped a premeasured charge and dropped a...

The answer should be obvious... The 2nd Generation Colts say "Colt"... and were fitted and finished by Colt. The 3rd Gens... not so much. I look at the 3rd Gens much like their Italian cousins wearing extraneous verbiage, stamps and stupid warnings.

What's the composition of the cap material that makes it corrosive? The tar left on my SlixShot nipples is bad enough, but if going to homemade caps is going back to a corrosive priming mix... I'll forgo that pleasure.

No problem... glad to be of service! Although in my unmentionable BP loads I use a card wad to separate powder from bullet by punching out the correct diameter from a waxed card type milk carton. The trick there is to make sure there's no lube on the base of the bullet, otherwise the card can...

Gee, for 37 years I've been missing out on all this "FUN"(?). All this time I've just ordered them online. Come prepackaged in 100 pc lots... I only handle them once also... when I load my revolver! ;)

Measuring several of my 1851 cylinders, they range from a small diameter of .369" to .372" at the max. That's across 9 cylinders of Uberti manufacture. One ASM, 1 Signature Series and 5 Colt 2nd Gens; plus two spare new Uberti cylinders. I use a .375" ball and have never had a chain fire.

I've shot cowboy action with a .36 Navy since 1986... have always loaded with 3F, a lubed wad and a .375 ball, when we went to two revolvers in the mid 1990's I got another, this time a 2nd Gen Colt. Use the same loads, I've shot on many hot days, (defined as 100ºF + in both the deserts of CA &...

I understand that much of Europe takes the month of August off for their summer "Holiday"!

The very first Land Run wasn't until the early 1990s, 1993/4 IIRC. The Territorial Marshalls (host club) were formed in 1993 at the Oklahoma City Gun Club.

Really, what year did you start? Where?

In this market, if you don't do due diligence to determine whether a business advertising products as "in stock", when all the regular outfits are "not in stock", is actually a business, you almost deserve to get a hard lesson. I can't tell you how many so-called "Ammo Supply" places are...

You can differ all you want. If accuracy was any factor beyond simply hitting a target with a lead bullet, then we'd have used scored paper targets with scoring areas. Amongst the shooters who hit all the targets, who won? He who was fastest. And even back in the day, that same winner...

Fixed it. Takes you to the page containing all the rules.

Cowboy action has been about speed from the very beginning... otherwise why time events. ..., Lowered hammers on sixguns, while visible, were allowed under the "my wife & kids need this modification so they can shoot..." whining. And while I can see .32 Single Sixes for the kids and smaller...

Cowboy action shooters have been the most welcoming and helpful group of shooters I've ever encountered. But, like everything else, you have your occasional prima dona, that doesn't want to be bothered, asked questions of, or help anyone, but... for the most part, most folks will go as far as...

As far as serial numbers, the 2nd Gen BP re-issues didn't start off where the originals left off. The 3rd Gens, or Signature Series started off where the 2nd Gens stopped and those were the guns produced by the Black Powder Firearms Co., (aka Iver Johnson). The major parts for the Re-Issue BP...

I have an old, non-working refrigerator out in my barn that I use for storing my powder, (smokeless & BP in the refrigerator section, and primers in the old freezer section. The seals are still good on the door. It's a metal pole barn. The frig sits in the workshop portion of the barn...

SASS has a category just for you: Frontiersman; requires BP or a sub in all 3 firearms. Handguns can be any cap & ball revolver of .36 caliber or larger (less than .50, btw), 5 or 6 shots. 5-shooters must have the hammer rested on a pin between chambers. Unlike cartridge guns, there is no...