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Black powder cartridge pistols.(MONTANA MUSINGS)

Readers have commented they enjoy my articles on black powder cartridge rifles (BPCRs). That's pleasing. Now how about a column on another type of BPCR--the black powder cartridge revolver? But to keep things sorted let's call them BPCPs: black powder cartridge pistols. (Sure, I know there's a difference between pistols and revolvers, but even the Old West gunfighters often called their revolvers pistols, so just bear with me.)

Colt didn't begin to warranty any of their handguns for smokeless powder shooting until 1900, and Smith & Wesson began the metallic handgun cartridge era circa 1858 for rimfires, and 1870 for centerfires. Therefore, during those four decades which ...

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