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midway has deals on C&B revolvers
A few asked me about my 1858 Remington clone when I posted it here, so consider this a heads up.
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These are great good fun, and relatively inexpensive to both acquire and to shoot. Surprisingly accurate as well, if you buy one from a reputable manufacturer.
Quality time spent with one will soon impress upon the shooter why we worked so hard to come up with self contained metallic cartridges. Very, very slow to reload. Lots of guys carried spare, loaded cylinders for these things. Here's my Ruger Old Army. Not available for some time, I really wish they would start making them again. There was a 5 1/2" version with fixed sights I would really like to pick up some day. Not many guys who have them will part with them, though, so Ruger really needs to make them again. One of the most accurate revolvers I have ever owned, by the way. About .357 magnum ballistics if you stoke it up all the way, with a 147 grain round ball breaking 1,200 fps. I bought it as a sidearm that I could legally carry while hunting our muzzle loader seasons. I actually killed a small mulie buck with it one time, one of the more foolish stunts I ever attempted hunting... Anyway, cap and ball revolvers are just a lot of fun. I do prefer the Remington pattern (the Ruger is no more than a modernization of it) over the open top Colt. 
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