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no offense intended, but stupidity wasnt the reason that peopel kept using bp revolvers past expiration of rollin whits patent.
colt charged uncle sams checkbook 25-30 dollars for every colt percussion revolver sold to him during the civil war. At that time most soldiers were barely making 15 dollars amonth for the privilege of dying for a war they didnt beleive in.
When colt started producing cartridge revolvers, ie masons and richards, etc, he was still charging 25-30 dollars for each weapon. For normal citizens, 20 dollars a month in pay was extremely wealthy, many werent making more then 15 a month in some areas.
as a result pappy and uncle johny were happy to keep carrying their gov issued percussion revolver because it was still accurate, still able to kill a man, and could still knock a horse down. Also, economics proved that it was cheaper to purchase a pound of bp and some percussion caps then to try to keep a good supply of cartridges on hand.
Also, the few shootings involving a percussion revolver that have happened in the last 12 years in my state always have ended up with "home robber killed after being shot with col. colts equalizer". While i can show you several articles about shootings involing semi autos in 9mm, 40sw and 45acp that involved multiple chest shots with jhp that resulted in injury but no deaths.
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