There's so much conflicting info. Skeeter Skelton says Civil War vets used to teach him how to shoot his .36 Navy and they'd cut wads out of old hats.
But NRA match shooters avoid wads.
We are taught that pinching caps is inviting a chain fire , but I just watched a YouTube video with Dr Nemeth talking about pinching caps to fit on a Uberti Walker.
I read an original account of Confederate Cavalrymen writing about how they loved the .36 Navies and "round ball puts a man down and keeps em down , conicals pass clean through" where some people swear conicals have better stopping power.
I'd say just listen to the guys who have used these guns in combat or shoot 1000s of rounds a year, because I've gotten "advice " from guys at the range who bought a .44 Navy Brasser Redi-Pak at Cabelas and put 2 cylinders through it , and will tell me I have to use grease over the chambers or I'll get a chain fire because some guy told him this years ago and they "did that in the Old West"