ORIGINAL: frontier gander
ive done that before when i had a 6 shot revolver. Pretty scary watching those lead balls, slowly bounce back at you. Also pretty sad that they couldnt go through a 2x4 i was shooting at. No metal in these. All were brand new at the time until they sat there on the ground for all those years and are rotting slowly. Bottoms have already turned to saw dust.. [:'(] Would have made good posts for a small pole barn
Interesting, My 1860 Army Pietta is happy with a load of 147gr. .457 ball & 28gr FFFG @ 845fps 221.8ft. lbs. & could punch through 4 1X6 planks spaced 1/2" appart.
I know that my Dragoon would about produce 1000fps.
Oh well the things we did when we were younger & luckily still alive to talk about it...