Thank you! Your story is the most heartwarming story of dedication I’ve heard in a long time. I’m really happy you’ve found BP. I share your passion to them and working on them and it is my main way of staying centered and good. I respect your effort and congratulate you! Stay in touch anytime! Keep shootin and so will I. If I’m shooting im recording. Sharing that passion is my goal. Thanks again

Amen. I call them the history police

Thanks for your story. I’m getting old and very addicted! Thanks!

At the end of your video I noticed you have a Grand Rapids, MI hoodie on. I’m a Ludington, MI native currently living in Las Vegas, NV! I just picked up a 1851 Navy in .44 caliber and the first thing I said was “ it isn’t historically accurate “! LMAO! This is my first black powder gun and I’m just trying to learn the ropes, so I gotta say thank you! It really is a small world!

@scooterc6412 hi! Yes I’m between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo out in the sticks! Welcome to our BP world! It’s a lot of fun indeed. All my luck to you and stay in touch if you need anything. Ludington is beautiful country. Vegas has better weather!

@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb Yeah, the weather here is pretty good, but there ain’t no place like home! I enjoyed your video and now I’m itching to get all the accessories to go with the gun! Thanks again, buddy!

@scooterc6412 anytime! Check my loading video too if you’re interested.

Boy I understand being hooked. There’s nothing like touching every load and smelling the powder and hearing the bang and knowing that we can approximate what our ancestors did and felt! Thanks for your story! I love hearing how folks get involved on this cap and ball journey.

Thank you! It’s a real nice revolver. Welcome to the hobby. It’s a lot of fun! Remember, black powder is a hobby of patience! If you have any questions just holler!

Thanks! Welcome to the channel.

Gotta be pretty lol

@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb ohhh that kinda powder... hahaha

I love the navy pistols in 36 and 44. I use the same lube mix as you and it works! I want to have fun! And this is fun. Thank you!

Hi Phil and thanks for subscribing! I’m having fun with the videos. I love shooting so might as well record them. I’m trying to get better with each one. You’ve got some classic revolvers there! Keep on shooting. I’m lucky to have this acreage here for my range! Thanks again. There’ll be more coming soon.

Bravo! I couldn’t agree more!

Thank you! You’ve got it right. Keep shooting and having fun…

These are a lot of fun! Thank you!

Thanks!

Hey thanks brother! It’s a blast for sure! Good luck and if you ever need anything related to that you know where I am!

That’s great!!!!!

Thanks!

I have a flap holster I got from a friend a while back…haven’t used it much though.

I make my bullets and some caps but not powder! It sounds like you’ve got a good one! Enjoy your new navy yank! There are definitely cap shortages.

Thank you. If there’s anything you hope to see let me know and I’ll try

Thank you! They are really a lot of fun. I’m staying with cap and ball for now, but the conversions are fun too! Thanks for watching.

Greetings to you! Thanks for watching and your kind comment!

Fantastic! It’s a great shooter and lots of fun. Let me know how it goes for you! Thanks

I couldn’t agree more! I’m going out today!

I will send you an email in a bit…after I feed my horses. Thanks

Hey David...sorry for my delay. So I have never really used the pellets that are sold made from the black powder substitutes...like pyrodex and triple 7....What I know is that its best to load down for brass frames from a load for steel frames. Also, triple 7 is hotter and provides more energy per grain, as does pyrodex...but not like triple 7. So, I personally wouldnt use them cause Ive never seen them in less than 30 grain pellets and, while that may be good in a steel frame 44...that would be about 8 grains to much (in my view) in a brass frame 44. I shoot (either BP or pyrodex)..14-18 grains in 36 caliber brass frames and 18-22 grains in brass frame 44's. That just me but this goes generally with the manufacturers recommendations. hope this helps Thanks for your support. Ive got more videos coming if the weather gives me a break here in Michigan

I couldn’t agree with you more obviously. As you, if I had 1 choice of 44 cal to put my life on I’d take the 51 navy in 44 I used in the video. I just love it. Thank you for saying what I tried to say…who cares what anybody thinks! In fact, I wouldn’t doubt that a 44 with navy frame did show up somewhere. Thanks. Ps: I have the Remington revolving carbine and it’s not my fav cause of the face blow back…it’s fun, but my face is a little too close to fire lol. I did a vid on it and only fire it once in a great while! Generally when a friend wants to see it shoot.

@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb The carbine is an attention getter for sure, but let someone fire it as their first cap and ball experience and you've just lost a cap and baller for certain as they'll probably never want to try another one. I had hoped converting it to cartridges would help, but it didn't. I'm subscribing to your channel now and interested in following along on your future cap and ball adventures.

@hercules1073 I agree on that. Thanks for subscribing! I hope to keep the adventure and challenges rolling!

I’m glad to hear it! These emerging evidence that there may have been some of these back then too. Who’s to say since none of us were there! Thanks my friend

You’re welcome!

That’s how it goes. Just get a couple. Then 17. I have 24. Whew! Thanks for watching and writing. I say shoot em if you have em!

That sounds really cool. I watch him and he does really creative stuff! Thanks

You’re right. Once you get a cleaning way you like it’s not bad! It’s a really fun revolver! Thanks

That’s terrific and my opinion. If it goes bang and you’re having fun…who cares? Let em talk, meanwhile you and I are burning powder! Thanks

@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb exactly, makes a nice group with Lee conicals at 20 yards. But it’s true what they say “aim at the belt buckle, hit the torso”

That’s great! Let me know how it shoots! You’re gonna have fun!

That’s great! Those are good shooting, fun revolvers! Confiscated cap and ball gun! Don’t hear that much! Thanks for watching! Have a blast

yeah it was loaded and they knew I use civil war guns alot. Ihey said noone will buy this so take it. It is in near new condition.@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb

I’m not sure Uberti makes them but I’ve had much better luck with quality lately with Pietta. My new Ubertis have all had out of the box issues lately. Good luck with your 36

Thank you and welcome! I’ll do my best to keep you coming back!!! That I promise

@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb>>> Fair enough...👍

Many of these revolvers are muzzle heavy. It takes some getting used to…or a bench rest lol

​@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb Yes! But only if you're loading and shooting as fast as you can for long periods of time and that they are full size hand guns. I have found the Uberti's hand grips to be more historical in shape then Pietta's which has what some call a tail on them which tends to force the barrel to rise higher by putting more pressure on the lower polm of your hand. I don't have a problem with either due to the fact I don't load and shoot as fast as I can especially for long periods of time. Also I switch guns often during a long day of shooting. Like shooting a 7 1/2 inch barreled revolver and then a revolver with a 4 or 4 1/2 inch barrel or a smaller caliber! Doing it that way I've shot, many times, over a hundred rounds of Cap & Ball pistol rounds with no hand or arm fatigue at all. ( .36 or .44 caliber) ...( NOT WITH MY WALKERS OR DRAGOONS )! Take a .36 cal. 1851 Colt copy w/ a 7 1/2 inch barrel feels more heavier then a 44 cal. 4 1/2 barreled 1851 Colt copy! Even with full house loads! But usually, between useing three or four B/P hand guns in a single day of shooting, I usually find out I only shot about 50 or so rounds for the whole day. And that is in one day maybe every couple of weeks or so! What I'm trying to say is if your shooting B/P pistols and have hurting hands or arms afterwards you might need to find out why!... to much shooting all in one day, litter loads, standing or sitting!?.. Like I found out I could fire my B/P 1885 Browning 45/70 W/ 580 gr. Bullets from the standing position all day with no problems but sitting behind a bench it beat the living heck out of me even just shooting half the number of rds. What I'm trying to say is that if you got a problem there's a good reason why! Find out what it is and find out what you need to do to correct it! I had a friend that lost his little finger and the one next to it on his shooting hand. He said he couldn't shoot his single action pistols any more. He tried using his left hand but had problems with speed and accuracy with useing his left hand. After a couple years he gave up! I asked him if he had tried going back to useing his right hand. He said he couldn't grip the pistol enough to use just his thumb and fire it without it twisting out of his hand. I closely watch his draw and firing his pistol and noticed that his pistol twisted in his hand when drawing and cocking the hammer and then haveing to use his left hand to reposition the gun in his right hand before firing. Because of this this his draw was slow and first shot was slow and not very accurate. After forcing him to do exercises to strength the grip of his middle finger and finding a good pistol grip maker that made a set of grips that forced his middle finger grip lower down the grip, his grip strengthening of his middle finger and being locked in the same place every time his speed and accuracy came back to the point he thinks is faster and more accurate as before his accident. He would of given up two years earlier and not shooting right handed with handguns. But having someone push him and help him to figure out what was the problems and a way to fix it he probably be handicapped in his chosen sport! NEVER GIVE UP ON ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO! MAKE ANY ADJUSTMENTS AND WAYS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS!!

I don’t think you can do better than a Colt 1851 navy in 36 cal made by pietta or uberti. Easy to shoot and a great revolver to start with. Since you are a history buff this was used during the war.

Thanks! @@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb

Hi! That one’s coming next! I had this one going when that Remington arrived. So it’ll be about a week or so! Thanks.

@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb good deal, always look forward to your vids

You darn right it is!!!! Thanks! Fire at will!!

Amen!!!

I couldn’t agree more. Just have fun. That’s what it’s supposed to be about!

Wow. That sounds like a great revolver. It’s a real collector. When these things are right they are beautiful yet simple firearms. Thanks.

These are about as modern as they get I’m afraid…in cap and ball. You can get modern revolvers that shoot modern ammo but not cap and ball. The ruger old army was probably the modern cap and ball but it’s not made anymore.

@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb yeah I looked up the prices for the old army! Definitely not one to start out with

I agree. Thanks. Brass can’t be converted I hear. But I don’t convert so I’m not sure. Have fun!

It won’t come out or move? If that’s so use a clothes pin or a brass pouch of some kind (I use a flint Knapping hammer) to knock it loose with a plastic or rubber hammer.

Should be able to push it in and out with thumb pressure. It may need to be sanded on one side to get it to fit right

It won’t move, I tried the brass punch and no luck. I’ll try the boiling water method.

@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb I just used boiling water and smashed it with a Gunsmithing hammer. It worked like a charm, thank you for the suggestions.

I agree brother

I can’t agree more. Gotta get a 51 navy. Great guns. Thanks

Actually it won’t. It will not go down the barrel first. On the powder it leaves the lube on the charge so it breaks up fouling. People that like it in front add lube to the chamber mouths. I don’t like it cause it’s a mess

I’m just finishing a new video on loading and capping now. I answer some of that stuff better. Might be up tomorrow…I hope

And that’s all that matters to me!

It is so funny to me when people talk about historical, you go to any museums and look and the firearms they used way back when... They operated and look so much different then the modern replicas, brass or steel framed.

@theidahoan9826 yea. All we can do is approximate history…materials different, conditions different and we get to put it away and go have dinner. It’s fun to try…and I’ll keep imagining all knowing I’m guessing and can never experience it.

Very true, still really fun tho. Had to get conversion cylinders for all mine tho, only way I can shoot'em anymore with caps bein impossible to find... I do miss the black powder smoke in my face tho ;)

@theidahoan9826 it’s real fun! I managed to hoard some caps last year so I’m good.

Hi! No adjustable sights on these cap and ball colt replicas. I think those are a later invention. The rear sight is a notch in the hammer and the front site is a little bead. That’s about it. Thanks!

@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb Figures they would make it historically accurate on the real amenities.... I'll get one and mount a red dot on it just for shits and giggles..

@lamegame420 lots of folks do that. I’m hard headed so I play with windage lol.

I’ve never tried that but I may soon. Thanks.

I agree with you on that point. I think I’ve seen pictures of it. Had a round barrel if I’m thinking of the right photo. Thanks! I’m surprised they never made an 1860 army with navy grip frame. That’s essentially what it is!

​@@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb the picture ive seen actually had the same barrel. They lengthened the grip frame and stepped the cylinder for 44... The second one they trimmed some of the barrel. There was like 4 or 5 iterations before they got to the 1860. Kinda cool really. Colt even flirted around with a pepper box prototype that never went anywhere in the 1850s Edit for what its worth ive had decent groups with Eras Gone Kerrs in my 44 piettas. Might be worth a look. Brittish projectile. Mark Hubbs has lee producing the molds for him

@Rumblestrip that is really cool!

Yea. But Pietta’s is really nice!

I have since learned these facts. But it is ridiculous to think that these didn’t exist even as prototypes. Thanks

​@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb if non existence then the Smithsonian is a fraud? They have one

​@CapBallFanatic-gb3jb I upset the apple cart, and say it did and does exist, why else would the Smithsonian have one hanging around

That’s about it!

Yup. The original concealed revolver!!! Thanks

That’s low ball man. I’m sorry. I will check with my friends. Send me an email at capandballfanatic@gmail.com.

Yup…I talk about it! For sure

Yup!

It’s about having fun!!