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Originally Posted by tabs
I don't quite see it converting a Cap N Ball revolver to cartridge...to much hassle to reload, why not buy a 2ND pistola. one that shoots cartirdges from the git go...
The Ruger OA is a hybrid and isn't even authentic to the period...I can see some of the old model percussion conversions being recreated...
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Some of us just like to play around with the unusual. I have a pretty good pile of single actions, and a pretty fair number of those are in .45 Colt. After this discussion, I find myself thinking it would be fun to pick up one of these R&D cylinders just to play with something different. For a couple hundred bucks it's pretty hard to go wrong.
I like my Old Army, but like Henry, I just don't shoot it much. The black powder doesn't bother me - I shoot more of it than smokeless anyway, in everything from muzzle loaders to lever guns to single shots to single action revolvers - but the loading procedure on a cap 'n' ball gun is agonizingly slow.
The Ruger stands as the finest cap 'n' ball gun ever produced. It was never meant to be a copy of anything, or to be period correct in any way. Bill Ruger simply wanted to revive the concept in a modern platform for today's shooters. Like the Blackhawk, his original .22 auto, and the #1, it strongly suggests traditional designs, but is not bound by them. They are all uniquely Ruger. They have never been in the repro business.