Ultimate Cap and Ball Revolver

[pacecars]

This one has been on my bucket list for a long time and to say I am excited is an understatement. David Clements quit making them and is retiring now anyway so I have been searching for a used one I could afford. It is a stainless Ruger Old Army with 6 1/2” octagon barrel in .50 caliber with an oversized 5 shot cylinder
I have ordered an accurate molds 250 gr conical mold and I am going to put a Ronnie Wells bras Bisley grip frame on it with some nice walnut grips
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[dondiego]

We will want to know how it shoots!

[Bmi48219]

That’s one of the prettiest wheel guns I’ve ever seen. Hope it shoots as good as it looks!

[00buck]

That’s Sweet!!
Enjoy it

Hope you have a nice holster for that dogleg

[Outpost75]

When I was at Ruger we produced an experimental .50 cal. Buffalo Special using a .357 Maximum frame with larger frame opening and longer cylinder. Frame width at front was wider to permit a larger barrel thread diameter. Barrel was turned down from .50 BMG blank. Cylinder held 60 grains of 3Fg Goex and gave 855 fps with 370-grain Maxi-ball from 7-1/2" barrel. Never went into production, but Bob Milek and I killed boar and Eli with it.

[pacecars]

That is awesome! These are the loads David sent me on it:

Load data:
.490 roundball seated over a .50 cal. Wonderwad 50 grains by volume of Hodgdon’s Triple 7 FFFg 1250 fps
250 gr. cast bullet 45-48 grains by volume of Hodgdon’s Triple 7 FFFg 1150 fps

[M-Tecs]

When I was at Ruger we produced an experimental .50 cal. Buffalo Special using a .357 Maximum frame with larger frame opening and longer cylinder. Frame width at front was wider to permit a larger barrel thread diameter. Barrel was turned down from .50 BMG blank. Cylinder held 60 grains of 3Fg Goex and gave 855 fps with 370-grain Maxi-ball from 7-1/2" barrel. Never went into production, but Bob Milek and I killed boar and Eli with it.

Too bad that never made it into production.

[indian joe]

In days of old the Walker had the prize for velocity - a tranter 577 would have had to be up there for knockdown at close range?

[pacecars]

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[dondiego]

Who did that work pacecars?

[Winger Ed.]

My lust for a cap & ball revolver has sort of come and gone. But that is the one I always dreamed of getting.

[armoredman]

I always wanted a stainless Old Army, and with prices going up and up, will probably never get one...but that 50BP engraved one has officially become the Grail Gun. :D

[Chena]

That is the percussion equivalent to Elmer Keith’s Number 5 Colt, perfection.

[725]

Stunning.

[Wag]

My lust for a cap & ball revolver has sort of come and gone. But that is the one I always dreamed of getting.

Same here. When I was a kid, someone showed up at the range with a 44 BP wheelgun and I was in love at the start.

Still haven't bought one but it's still kinda on the bucket list.

--Wag--

[Thundermaker]

Gorgeous. I wish ruger would bring these back. I know they won't, but it'd be nice.

[Jackrabbit1957]

They are truly the Cadillac of cap and ball revolvers, I have 2 myself. Wouldn't part with them for all the tea in China. One is a stainless fixed sight that I got at an estate sale, the other was a basket case that took some effort to revive. Both are great shooters.

[SSGOldfart]

I've got the sister to it ROA is truly a great gun.

[Super Sneaky Steve]

I would love a 50 cal percussion revolver. Very nice.

[Good Cheer]

In the 70's I read an article in some gun magazine about the mid 1800's .58 caliber percussion revolvers that had been made in England. And drooled. Still waiting on someone to market productions!

[dtknowles]

Nice, very nice. I would not call it the ultimate but still a treasure. I want a Remington rider. I am over bigger is better.
Tim

[yeahbub]

I soooo wish Ruger would re-introduce the Old Army. I like the Remingtons in both calibers, the .36 for its economy and the .44 for power. I also wondered about mounting a .429 groove barrel and reaming the chambers on a .36 cal cylinder to get properly dimensioned chambers for correct chamber/bore relationship to shoot my favorite boolits.

Imagine what that Clements .50 could do with a 250gr soft lead HP and a snoot full of 777. I expect it would be nicely manageable and amply authoritative.

[Jackrabbit1957]

Ruger Old Army shoots very nicely with a 200 grain .452 conical. I had a box full of semi wad cutters for my 1911 that wouldn't feed. I did a neat thing of knurling the bullets between a couple of double cut files to make the fit the chambers. Accuracy is excellent. My best shot was dropping a jackrabbit at around 70 yards.