After losing one of my faves, a stainless Ruger Old Army cap and ball, in a burglery, I was running around to the pawn shops looking for the guns I'd gotten stolen. On a lark, I stopped into a gun shop in a nearby town. He had a blued version of the gun, an Old Army, had one little rust spot on the barrel barely detectable and had a price tag on it that said "97.98" I says, "is THAT the price you want on that thing?" "Yeah", he says. "I'm getting rid of all my black powder stuff and just wanna get rid of it, to which I whipped out my wallet.
It shoots as good as my old stainless one, but I sorta miss the stainless. I could just bring it home, take out the cylinder, and stick the works in the dish washer. Made for less PITA clean up.
But, at that price, even if I still had my stainless gun, I'd have bought it!
Old Armys are fantastic cap and ball guns. They can handle some soup 'em up by boring the cylinders some and almost make a Walker Colt out of 'em (though I haven't, yet), plus they're as accurate as most cartridge guns. You could even handgun hunt with an Old Army, though I've yet to do that. Don't need brass, either!
Loading up is sort of a chore, though. I could just imagine the crackhead that broke into my house trying to figure out how to stuff ammo into it. LOL. He's probably still trying to figure out what ammo to buy for it.