Welcome to the Forum!
Nothing like a neat toy for Christmas I always say.
I just wish I could be there with you when you load up the first time. Just watching the concentration on your face as you measure the powder, just so. Placing the ball on the cylinder mouth and rotating it under the loading lever ram and pulling it down, a little smile on your face when the ball seats.
After loading the chambers and greasing the chamber mouths, you place the caps on the nipples, again, with a look of some doubt.
Flimsy little things, these caps. Will they really work?
You raise the gun up and cock it, thinking "Boy, these are really wierd sights but what the heck.
Squeezing the trigger a BOOMing sound, unique to these Cap and Ball guns occurs while, on your face, an ear to ear grin quickly follows.
The cloud of smoke, the smell of sulpher and fireworks fills the air.
Again you cock the hammer and squeeze..BOOM, click,click,click..BOOM! Click,click,click..BOOM!
By the time the cylinder is empty you are hooked.
You may have hit the target but that doesn't really matter.
It's the feel, the sight, the smell! History is alive and the joys of making this old fashioned gun work will long be remembered.
This gun puts the fun back into shooting! :grin:
I know. I've been there.
Happy shooting to you!
