Colts are very nice pistols, and the brassers are pretty; but if you're intersted in the longevity of your weapon, follow the advice you've gotten here and hunt down a steel-framed revolver for cartridge shooting. If you don't mind the more "modern" look of a steel-framed gun with a top strap above the cylinder; look into a Remington "1858" New Model Army. The replicas currently being built by Pietta and Uberti are actually closer to the 1863 version, hence the quotation marks bracketing the "1858" in my previous sentence. The greater ease of removing/replacing the cylinder for reloads is awesome, and the wrap-around steel frame will take a LOT more pressure before it even thinks about stretching.
Go buy/rent/Netflix a copy of Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider".... it includes a grerat scene in which "Preacher" (Eastwood) swaps cylinders during a gunfight.
The best part of this conversion is that at least one manufacturer of conversion cylinders puts out a product that is, over 70% of the time, a "drop-in" piece; converting back to cap-and-ball is as easy as putting the original cylinder back in place. That's just "cool".
Oh, and if there aren't enough references to Heinline's classic; "Welcome to the Roughnecks"
Go buy/rent/Netflix a copy of Clint Eastwood's "Pale Rider".... it includes a grerat scene in which "Preacher" (Eastwood) swaps cylinders during a gunfight.
The best part of this conversion is that at least one manufacturer of conversion cylinders puts out a product that is, over 70% of the time, a "drop-in" piece; converting back to cap-and-ball is as easy as putting the original cylinder back in place. That's just "cool".
Oh, and if there aren't enough references to Heinline's classic; "Welcome to the Roughnecks"
