H.H.B. said:
would love to have a roa. should have got one 20 years ago. yet when i can buy a ruger sbh in 357/44/45 and not mess with balls, caps, powder, for less $ thats the way i go. jmo black powder handguns are toys. ( ya ya i know you can use em to.....) I love em but they are not for serious work.
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well these 'toys' (BP guns) enabled the European powers to colonize and capture the world before the first suppository gun was made available to the masses
I can't stand to see this sentiment that they are useless 'toys' being propagated. It is the very thing that causes people like an old friend of mine to be so sure that these guns are not powerful beyond 50 yards he was demanding I shoot at him with an 1851 while he stood out at 50+ yards. An invitation I promptly dismissed.
A gun is a gun, regardless if it was made 300 years ago or today. A bullet will kill you or a friend/loved one if you do not treat the gun with respect. I don't care if it is going 800 ft/sec or 2500+ ft/sec, a bullet hole in a vital is lethal.