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do any of you hunt with your black powder cap-and-ball revolvers?

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I have lots of wild hogs, whitetail deer and turkey (also coyotes, bobcat, jaguarundi, armadillos, skunks, opposums) on my 165-acre ranch in northeast Texas; I am primarily wanting to shoot the feral pigs tearing up my property, using one of these in .44 caliber: Ruger Old Army, Euroarms Rogers & Spencer, Pietta 1851 Navy, Pietta 1860 Army, Pietta 1858 Remington... I am interested in seeing photos of your successful kills using your own black powder cap-and-ball revolver!
 
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I've shot a few here and there with pistols, but I have no interest in revolvers. This one was with a .40 prb and I've nailed some with .54 and .62 prb also.
 
In my younger years in the 1960s I hunted rabbits in west Texas with a brass frame Navy replica. Running rabbits often required the full cylinder to nail one, but if I caught one sitting it would only take one shot. Completely wore out that Navy revolver after which all my guns were steel frame. Here I was practicing with my then-new steel frame 1860 Army after getting rid of the worn out brass frame gun.
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In my younger years in the 1960s I hunted rabbits in west Texas with a brass frame Navy replica. Running rabbits often required the full cylinder to nail one, but if I caught one sitting it would only take one shot. Completely wore out that Navy revolver after which all my guns were steel frame. Here I was practicing with my then-new steel frame 1860 Army after getting rid of the worn out brass frame gun.View attachment 69775
'Note the lean sillouette, eyes shaded from the sun, they're sharp as a hawk's.'
 
Brit, how about a howda are they classified as a handgun where you are at. It may not be long until we here face the same situations, I hope not.
 
I'm going green with jealousy here.
I would love to hunt with a pistol but.....

Alas, here in the People's Republic of Maryland
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we have limitations based on the load for hunting with black powder, and I could do small game, but not deer unless I had a revolver that would take 40 grains of powder. So that would be a Walker, maybe a Colt Dragoon, or a single shot. I confess I am considering buying a Pedersoli Bounty flintlock.
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But that's not a cap-n-ball..., they DO offer one that is caplock though...

LD
 
Alas, here in the People's Republic of Maryland View attachment 69904 we have limitations based on the load for hunting with black powder, and I could do small game, but not deer unless I had a revolver that would take 40 grains of powder. So that would be a Walker, maybe a Colt Dragoon, or a single shot. I confess I am considering buying a Pedersoli Bounty flintlock.
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But that's not a cap-n-ball..., they DO offer one that is caplock though...

LD
Don't know Dave but I would be very surprised if they did not do a caplock.
Still not an option for me 😭
 
In Texas, a percussion revolver is not a "muzzleloader" and cannot be used in "Muzzleloader" seasons for hunting. I guess in regular season anything goes. However, I use a flintlock rifle in every season and while I have carried a cap and ball revolver I've never taken game with it.
 
In Texas, a percussion revolver is not a "muzzleloader" and cannot be used in "Muzzleloader" seasons for hunting. I guess in regular season anything goes. However, I use a flintlock rifle in every season and while I have carried a cap and ball revolver, I've never taken game with it.

I am only looking to shoot some of the feral hogs tearing up my northeast Texas 165 acres; I have hunted those destructive pests with everything else (fully automatic machine guns, helicopters, image intensified night vision, infrared thermal riflescopes, thermal drones, knives and dogs, .22lr rimfire, trapping, spear), so I just want to try something different now...
 
I'm going green with jealousy here.
I would love to hunt with a pistol but.....
Brit, if you will move to Arkansaw and take the place of one of these screaming idiotic gun grabbing people who are moving in here by the droves, I'll GIVE you one of my black powder C&B revolvers; you'll have to scrap for your own caps and powder, though, and do it quick.
 
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Alas, here in the People's Republic of Maryland View attachment 69904 we have limitations based on the load for hunting with black powder, and I could do small game, but not deer unless I had a revolver that would take 40 grains of powder. So that would be a Walker, maybe a Colt Dragoon, or a single shot. I confess I am considering buying a Pedersoli Bounty flintlock.
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But that's not a cap-n-ball..., they DO offer one that is caplock though...

LD
I bought one of the Pedersoli Bounty Hunters and was totally frustrated with it. The trigger was set up at the wrong angle where it contacted the sear, and the trigger pull was probably at least 10 lbs !! I have a friend that is a great muzzleloader builder and he played with it some and actually got the trigger down to about 5 lbs......but could only do that with an extremely long creep before the hammer dropped. I played with it some and got so frustrated that I ended up just giving it away to a friend of mine.
 
For several years, and during an unfortunate lapse in attention to muzzle loaded arms, I hunted primarily with centerfire handguns and was able to take several large game animals. While I have seen an ailing captive deer dispatched with an 1860 Army, my feeling is that revolvers of a power level less than the Dragoon are under powered for deer hunting. The Dragoons and Walkers were the most powerful revolvers up to the development of the S + W .357. I did manage to take a buck with my Dragoon but it took four shots through the ribcage to put him down.
 
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