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Originally Posted by Hawg Haggen
If it's not reasonably historically accurate I want no part of it. I realize there are some who don't care but I'm not one of them and I'm not alone.
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Iagree with you HH but only that it isn't for me, the Ruger Old Army was not a Historically accurate weapon except that it used a cap & ball system, even though it is a fine weapon in it's own right it has no place in my gun locker because it is only a modern representation of a weapon that is only playing to be a C&B revolver.
Now as far as the brass framed revolver that you like from Cabelas, Pohill I think you mean Pietta not Cabelas because that is who make 98% of the C&B revolvers for Cabelas but for the most part you are correct that Colt did in fact not make a 1851 Navy in a brass frame & especially not in .44 caliber but I think I had seen one variant that was manufactured during the War of Northern Aggression that was similar to the Colt 51 with a Brass frame from one of the many facilities in the south.
Now to the OP:
If you are stuck in getting a Brass framed C&B revolver please keep the loads around 20gr. max of FFFG gun powder to keep the weapon around for some time because after a while the brass will tend to stretch & fatigue from normal use of full house loads.
Also being in college, please I hope that you are living in off campus quarters because there may be some rules against firearms possession while on the campus property.