Stopping power of a New Army vs modern revolver?

[Derby FALs]

The old way was to go muzzle up when cocking to let the spent caps fall out of the way.

 

[mukluk]

I find both raising the muzzle and keeping it level while cocking equally adept at dropping spent cap fragments down the front of the hammer, thus causing jams. The most effective way at preventing cap jams in my experience is to point the muzzle down while cocking... the caps stay on or near the nipple then fall off out the capping cutout in the recoil shield when you pull the revolver back up to line up your next shot.

 

[Im283]

if the "man" comes looking for my weapons, I will claim they were stolen since the last time i saw them, (days ago).

I can;t imagine ,my .44 does not have the stopping power or more than any cartidge pistol i have.

Lord help us if hillary goes and gets elected

 

[DrLaw]

I just found this thread today, being relatively new here.

In May, the 4th Annual John Linebaugh Big Bore Seminar will be coming to Carthage, Illinois. At this, we shoot various calibers and loads into wet paper and bone and examine the effects on both, as well as penetration, deformation of the bullet and chronograph the loads as well. We have not had any black powder guns show up (rifles can be brought in to test, too)
yet, but now, after reading this thread, I might bring my .44, .36 and .31 (pipsqueak) to try out for the fun of it.

More information about the meet can be found at http://www.carthagegunclub.com/ , and I see we need to redo the dates.

It is going to be in May, anybody interested can PM me here.

The Doc is out now.