1860 and 1849

[echo154]

Is it me or is loading an 1860 colt(replica or real) or an 1849 PP just COOL! Just something there...no it's not something I keep on my night table but I still get "groupies" when shooting.....AND THE SMELL!

[smithnframe]

I’ve been a fan since I was 12 years old………..63 now!

[toot]

it will only get better. keep it up.

[Sasquatch-1]

Try taking a flintlock pistol to the range and watch the tact-i-cool scratch their head.

[elk hunter]

Our range has over 1000 members. Rarely does anyone even look up when I shoot black powder firearms but break out the Garand or the 30 carbine and someone will have to come look and ask questions. Of course they are generally shooting a black rifle of some sort or something that looks like a gas pipe stuck in some plastic that has a moon scope on it. Other than a couple of friends that I shoot with the only time you see a muzzleloader at the range, and it's almost always a modern in-line, is when someone bought one because they drew a muzzleloader tag of some sort. Funny, you never see them a second time with that muzzleloader.

[derek45]

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[Nobade]

I'm still jealous of your range.

[358429]

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https://i.imgur.com/y84CvlP.jpgMost glorious fireball!

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[echo154]

WOW Those are B E A U tifulllllll. and why I still play! If I can figure out I will get some of my beauties heres!

[sharps4590]

I too share the weakness for C&B revolvers. This year I added a second 1860 back into the fold and my first 1861 Navy.

The few times I go to a range, when the Sharps or my German double rifles come out, everything pretty much ceases for a while. Then some soul will brave the inevitable, "may I shoot that?"

[Woodnbow]

We’re all sort of throwbacks or something… we had all sorts of guns in the house I grew up in. My dad and grandpa both favored bolt rifles and Colt revolvers (later Rugers) dad carried a 1911 around everywhere he went but grandpa had quite a few lever rifles and a couple single shot Ballard rifles. When I was 8 or 9 he brought out his father’s 1860 Army model Colt. That was it! I shot it every time I could talk him into it and fell in love with the roar of that big .44 and the smell of sulphur in the morning… that was nearly 70 years ago and I still haven’t outgrown the love of old single action Colts 1860 New Model Army pistol, in my opinion the high water mark of elegant handgun design, certainly in the cap and ball era. Possibly of all time…