New Colt 1851 Navy C series

The nitrate cartridges used between 17 and 20 grains of "fine pistol powder" and a conical, depending on the maker of the cartridge

But I agree with the above, the "average Joe" who was loading up a Navy to carry it around , and was using loose powder would no doubt have topped off the chambers and used a round ball. The molds had a round ball and a conical in the block.

Skeeter Skelton writes a lot about using the Colt Navy and the Civil War vets that taught him how to shoot it.

Stantheman86 said:

The nitrate cartridges used between 17 and 20 grains of "fine pistol powder" and a conical, depending on the maker of the cartridge

But I agree with the above, the "average Joe" who was loading up a Navy to carry it around , and was using loose powder would no doubt have topped off the chambers and used a round ball. The molds had a round ball and a conical in the block.

Skeeter Skelton writes a lot about using the Colt Navy and the Civil War vets that taught him how to shoot it.

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Do you know where I could find those Skeeter Skelton writings?

AlaskaBlackpowder said:

Do you know where I could find those Skeeter Skelton writings?

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I had a softcover of his Hoglegs, Hipshots and Jalapenos that got ruined in a basement flood along with my autographed Bill Jordan "No Second Place Winner" but I basically just read his stuff in pieces and snippets online over a 20 year period, it takes some Googling

Basically he talks about , going from memory, his first gun was an old Colt Navy. And he learned to shoot it as a kid from old Civil War cavalry vets. They taught him to use felt wads under the ball with tallow in them " A revolver so treated will shoot clean all day" and they used to punch wads out of old hats.

And the Cavalry vets loved round balls because they "put a man down better than conicals "

He was very attached to the Colt Navy because of his experiences as a kid with it and he talked about it at length

john.k.taylor said:

I got the exact same gun at a gun show in Ontario in May 2018 for $550 CDN. That would have been $402 USD at the exchange rate of .732 in 2018. It is a beauty. Sold my Pietta.

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Is the Canadian government going to allow you to keep it under the pending new laws?

smoothshooter said:

Is the Canadian government going to allow you to keep it under the pending new laws?

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As I understand it so far, I can keep all my firearms, I can take them to my club and shoot them. I can’t buy any restricted firearms (pistols). I can’t sell them, give them away or leave them to my descendants. The only pistols I can acquire, sell, trade, give away or leave to my descendants are bona fide antiques.

AlaskaBlackpowder said:

Do you know where I could find those Skeeter Skelton writings?

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Elmer Keith wrote about carrying a Colt Navy when he was 14, that would have been 1913 and he was instructed in it's use by Civil War veterans. Skeeter was born in 1928, by the time he was old enough to tote a Colt Navy around at the same age it would have been 1942. Skeeter was a great proponent of the S&W .44 Special and his writings on it's versatility for hand loading convinced me to buy a .44 Special as my first center fire revolver decades ago. YMMV

AlaskaBlackpowder said:

Do you know where I could find those Skeeter Skelton writings?

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Good Friends, Good Guns, Good Whiskey: Selected Works of Skeeter…​

Skeeter: Hoglegs, Hipshots and Jalapenos: Selected Works of Skeeter Skelton, Vol. II​

He wrote for Shooting times also for many years and I’ve saved all of those as well as Ross Seyfried’s work. When I die mine will become available so hold your horses. Meanwhile, Skeeter Skelton has posted a number of his selected essays.

I subscribed to Shooting Times for many years. It was a great magazine. Used to save all the issues, guess they got dumped along the way.

Jug Johnson stories were always among my favorites… and of course Dobe Grant.

Whitworth said:

Elmer Keith wrote about carrying a Colt Navy when he was 14, that would have been 1913 and he was instructed in it's use by Civil War veterans. Skeeter was born in 1928, by the time he was old enough to tote a Colt Navy around at the same age it would have been 1942. Skeeter was a great proponent of the S&W .44 Special and his writings on it's versatility for hand loading convinced me to buy a .44 Special as my first center fire revolver decades ago. YMMV

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I get them mixed up

It seems that if Skeeter had a Colt Navy, in 1942 any Civil War vets would probably have been too ancient to help him shoot it