I need to get a decent cap and ball revolver again. I've had a couple. I tried to interest some of my friends in shooting Western scenario shoots using more realistic firearms than Hollywood B Western Model 92's and SAA's with very limited success. I wanted to play a game of "shoot to solve" a problem stages using guns that settlers, farmers, ranchers, Deputies and every day folks might have with them when confronted with a need to shoot. SASS's two revolver, a levergun, a shotgun, (with Model 97 Winchesters preferred), a pocket pistol, well anyway, I'll short circuit my own diatribe.
One shoot we had this stage. You are sleeping under a wagon, wrapped in a real wool blanket. Gun belt off, one handgun, loaded with 5 rounds in your holster near you, one long gun. I chose a .44 Dragoon loaded with 45 grains of the real deal and a double barrel percussion shotgun. Your slumber is broken by five men with bad intent sneaking into your camp. A horse is disturbed and a hasty shot is fired in your general direction indicating this is no harmless social call. At the action signal I engaged the two most threatening targets with the shotgun and the next three with the 5 rounds in my revolver. Smoke engulfed the stage, leaking up through the wooden planks in the old wooden farm wagon bed. The spectators thought it hilarious and thought provoking.
I wanted to replace the nipples on the Dragoon in an attempt to get a better fit for the large number of RWS #1075 caps I had procured. I got a set of quality nipples designed for Pietta threading only to discover the darnedest thing I have ever come across in a firearm. Three of the chambers had the correct thread and the other three were entirely different! I got rid of that shortly thereafter.
Now I'd like to find a good clean Uberti Navy Colt clone just to use up some of my black powder and caps. So Glassparman good on you, smoke on!