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It's from the book "Percussion revolvers A guide to their history, perfromance and use" by Cumpston and Bates. The discrepancy has rather obvious causes if you read the book; the Dragoon they tested was a modern built Uberti gun and the Walker was considerably older. The quality of Italian built...

Vegetable oils will work. However, they are prone to polymerizing, which means you end up with plastic-like layer on the internals which you have to scrub clean with a bronze brush. The internals will get filled with BP & oil sludge. You'll need to clean that. Otherwise they work. I was out of...

Have to agree to that, they're a blast to shoot. My only misgiving is that I don't get to shoot as often as I'd like :)

If you're interested in testing similar to what was done during the time period, here's an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4f4UMX_ewA I think that one pine board was considered sufficient during the day, but not sure where I read it. At any rate, pretty much all the...

Modern Ubertis have a constant twist rate of 1/18, and I think Pietta somewhere around 1/20. These twist rates are more suited to shooting longer conicals then round ball, even very light "target" loads with round ball should be fully stable well above 1/18 twist rate. Why they use such fast...

Not having large hands myself, I experimented with three grip styles. First, the "high grip" where my hand is as high as the hammer back position will allow. The benefit is that the hold is more firm and recoil control is easy. Shots go a bit lower as a result. The problem is that it means my...

I am not sure if gain twist barrels are useful. However a barrel which is correctly sized, with groove diameter a slight bit - a thousandth of an inch - less than chamber diameter is useful. All match grade revolvers have both. My bet is that gain twist is perhaps only useful for round ball, and...

That looks gorgeous.

I have a Hege-Uberti myself, of 2014 make. Basically, it is an Uberti (you can use Uberti spare parts, for me this was a big plus, seeing how I have a matching Uberti to go with it). The main difference is that it has a Lothar-Walther barrel with a gain twist and which comes out 0.001" tighter...

You'd just need to replace the hammer & trigger. They'll likely keep selling the spare parts for older models, if not the older models themselves. I'm still seeing the original "Cattleman" models in their catalogue. Obviously they intend to keep selling them, at least in Europe (there's no...

In event of a fire, a round cooking off in a case will have marginal energy. A round cooking off in a handgun where the gasses have nowhere to go except down the barrel pushing the bullet in front, it's going to be, well, like a gun going off.

Nothing handheld is going to be able to impart significant enough momentum to knock the other guy down provided the armour is good enough in spreading the force around. Sure, you could always have that custom made 2 bore rifle where the phrase "knockdown power" actually makes sense, but it'd...

Muffs to me muffle too much sound. Everything sounds like I'm underwater. Plugs are just right - they take the snapiness out. Of course if people were shooting some hand cannon nearby I'd go with muffs probably.

Nice rifle! I'm going for a Sharps rifle when I get my tax returns this fall :)

Worrying about over-penetration in a HD scenario is pretty pointless. If it has the ability to stop an attacker, any misses will penetrate an interior wall or other thin stuff there is in the house, and even exterior walls if it's made of typical papermache construction. It's just how it is...

I wear just earplugs most of the time. Muffs if I forget the earplugs (there's a closet with muffs for the forgetful). On my range, there is a "no magnum calibers" rule, due to noise pollution and houses nearby. Hence, you'll find people shooting 9mm, .38 Special, .45 LC and .44 Special, and .45...

Yes.

Balázs Németh. From what I gather, he's a historian but nowadays runs the cap and ball store (in Hungary), and competes in various European BP championships. I plan to swing by his store when I'm next in Budapest. Anyway, yeah, the rules are unlikely to change, probably ever. It's still a...

Well... why not both? Also, a 1861 Navy is pretty good, too! The loading lever of the 1860 and later Colt cap and ball revolvers is the best loading lever design there is, which is an advantage worth noting.

True. However it would take a major stroke of bad luck for a cylinder to fall in a way which would set off a cap, and then the ball to hit someone in the eye. A ball hitting skin at 150 fps would probably hurt like hell and leave a good bruise, but this is just below the velocity required to...