1851 Navy & beginner

drobs, a thought did cross my mind that in time I'll need to pick up some glass... and I don't mind that at all. That being said, my part of the world and your part of the world are so different that often what's normal there would be absurd here and vice versa. So no worries here about that glass. It's not a real shooting range, it's just a small piece of land in the middle of nowhere, a public property, where local policemen and local hunters decided to come to practice shooting in their free time. You can't walk without walking over the small 9mm cartridges. And those policemen won't even notice the glass, yet alone care about it. No-one else goes there. It's very scarcely populated area. You can't close something which was never opened in the first place, something which doesn't really exist, that's just a glade, like a field, surrounded with trees on small hills.

J-bar,
at the beginning, problems where of administrative nature... police had to talk to my neighbours to see if I'm problematic person and such... I waited for a registration paper a long time because they lost my file... etc. There's no such thing as "become more friendly" because once the paperwork was finished I had no more contact with the police and there's no reason for me or for them to have a contact.
Local policemen use that location too, yes, as an informal and unofficial range... but I've never seen anyone there. And I hope it will stay like that. It's not a populated area. And I have no idea how often policemen and hunters go there to practice. Once a week, once a month...? I think it's a small chance that we'll be there at the same time. I live in a city, and the shooting location is far away, about 30 minutes by car, towards the state border, so I'm told that the border police practice there.

drobs,
I don't like my gun, I love my gun. It's not perfect, because I still feel what I wrote in my very first post, that the grip is too short. For me the perfect gun is Schofield. Absolutely everything about Schofield is perfect, except that it requires B-category licence to own it. So I can only have airsoft version of Schofield. Walker would probably be the 2nd best gun ever, and I intent to own it, hopefully silver version by the end of 2019. Colt 1851 would be the 3rd best gun ever. 1851 is prettier than Walker, but I'm impressed by the size and the history of Walker.

Initially I bought larger quantities of powder, caps and balls, so I'm nowhere near the need to restock yet. Maybe I won't restock caps and balls ever, since I'm moving towards reloading.

I don't think I've learned any real "tricks". I've learned:
- to take it apart and clean it a bit faster each time when I come home;
- when I find a wad which I have just shot I can re-use it one more time;
- it's good to quickly spray a bit of Ballistol everywhere after each 6 shots;
- all that talk about spent caps and where will they fall and can they jam the revolver and how to prevent it, all that philosophy about installing this and that... needless; it can simply be solved by just LOOKING every time I cock the hammer - did the cap fall off or stayed on the nipple or on the hammer; if I see it there, it takes about 3 seconds to remove it with fingers.

I don't have a capper and I don't intend to. It's way more faster and simpler (and cheaper) to put caps on by fingers then to waste time filling the capper. The easiest part of loading is to put caps on, especially Remington No.10.

For my fist ever shooting I used 15 grains. The last time I used about 22. I think a bit less would be better, maybe 20.

My friends love it of course, but for now they don't intend to own anything similar. They have airsoft guns and participate in large airsoft battles.

Thanks Mizar, I know all that, maybe I'll change the grip frame one day. I have no concerns about the grip, it's too short for my liking (unlike the perfect Schofield grip) and that's all. I'll either put up with it or I'll change it. I've got used to it a long ago, but never completely.

Thanks, glad you like it Eyrie, I love this pic too.
This is cap & ball, I still don't have wadcutters. I have what was hard to get, conversion cylinder and brass casings. In months to come I'll get the rest of what I need for reloading... until then, I'm still using caps and balls.
I think it's impossible to see the projectile at this speed, without some high tech pro equipment...

That's another bottle stuck in the ground, waiting for its turn.

Thanks.
My conversion cylinder is still a virgin. I don't have half of things needed for reloading yet.