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For the Pietta 1860’s and 1858’s it’s .454 every time. That works best for me and mine.

Coffee filter paper is too heavy. Cig papers are plenty stout enough. I’ve made and shot a thousand paper carts and they all ignited. Never nitrated, not even once, it’s completely unnecessary.

No. Brass .44 and .36 Remingtons are strictly an Italian thing. Never happened in real life.

EMF. Why the mystery?

For most of us, time is money. If or when I need a new mainspring I’ll just buy one from VTI for a whopping seven bucks.

Smoke, maybe I “ get it” now. If you bored out a Navy to .58 there’d be no barrel left, Just thin air. Good pun.

Smoke - Maybe to save time and effort you could just get a brass Remington.

Was Colt (peace and blessings be upon him), prior to the Bessemer steel process, limited to the caliber he could put on a Navy frame? The answer may explain why Dragoons were so big and heavy and why the 1860 Army was finally possible for mass production. Two observations that may be true but...

Colt Navy .40 prototype. https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/87/1221/sn-1-prototype-.40-caliber-colt-model-1851-navy-revolver

Pastor - your various chronograph results published here and elsewhere are really informative and appreciated. Good work once again and many thanks.

Dismissed, kids. Springer calls them “novelties”. I guess we’ve been wasting our time playing with novelties. Why did we even bother?

Pouring powder down the bore of a cap and ball revolver is a thoroughly bad idea. Powder granules could adhere to soft fouling and light up on the next shot. The loading port or window is built into the gun for a reason. My suggestion is to do it the way it has always been intended to be...

.380 and 20-22 grains 3f.

Gay & retarded. I prefer not making jokes about killing Americans.

Stay away from brass .44’s if the intention is to actually do some shooting. Those are a loosing proposition. If one is only interested in a “bright shiny object” without any sense of history, then fine, go for it.

Don’t guess. Why are they considered to be Pietta? Are they marked Pietta?

We don’t dog on “Rednecks”, not even in California. Rude behavior - won’t tolerate it. You know the thing.

Nope. For Pietta the new cylinders (CNC) will work in the older (pre-CNC) frames but not contra-wise.

The purpose of BP firearms is to have a really good time but the watchword is - “Homie don’t play.”

The OP states the questionable supposition that BP firearms are generally treated less safely than modern firearms. If a person is careless with modern guns they’ll probably treat BP firearms the same way. I’ve never seen anyone who is careful with modern guns but is careless with a BP piece...