Excelent info Ned, I had something similar but could not rember the details you have.
Shin I know from reading your other post here you have other more modern guns at your disposal for personal defense. Therefore I know your question is for conversation only. Consider, if you will, that for over half a century these guns were used quite effectively for defense. I wouldn't want to be shot with one but then again I wouldn't want to rely on one to save my life either.
Put is this way; if one were forced to shoot someone with one of the old C&B they wouldn't come back and complain.
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Gunslinger
We live in a time in which attitudes and deeds once respected as courageous and honorable are now scorned as being antiquated and subversive.