NAA Companion

I believe this is a black powder model. I saw one in a pawn shop one time and I think the price was about $200. It seemed cool but more of a novelty than anything else. I didn't buy it but perhaps I should have just to enjoy ownership. No info on the shooting aspects of it.

NAA website lists MSRP at $251. Stopping power and accuracy beyond nostril distance is basically nonexistent.

Well if I fell into a time warp and was transported back to the 1850s and tasked to shoot terminally sick kittens at close range...I'd feel pretty good with that.

This is coming from a guy who EDCs a NAA Blackwidow sometimes as my only gun.

To me, the Companion takes all the mess of shooting black powder and strips it of all it's fun because of the tiny measurements, tiny bits of the gun, and the near impossibly of crafting a replicable load for accuracy. Best thing I could say for it, is that you could clean it up after a trip by plunking it in a shaker bottle filled with hot soapy water.

An option for those prohibited from carrying firearms, but not from carrying BP guns. Still, there are certainly bigger options, but this could serve as a hideout gun. I'm not sure that is NAA's idea behind it, or if they were just wanting to appeal to BP buffs.

Darth-Vang said:

Stopping power?

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Not great.

Darth-Vang said:

Accuracy?

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It'll shoot better than you'll ever be able to.

From what I have read you can use Bullseye smokeless powder in these. Over 1000fps with the magnum frame.

NAA specified in older manuals 1 grain in the small frames and 2 grains in the magnum frame. Eventually they dropped that data from the manual for liability reasons.