Again, really sorry about the update lag yesterday. But hey, the comic DID update, if a bit late, so nyer.
While doing minor research for this strip, I noted the costs, and dammit, now I want to buy a black powder revolver. I’ve fired them before, both cap & ball and flintlock, and they were plenty fun. Felt more organic than modern firearms, to a minor degree. Thinking of an Army revolver in .44, and going from there.
A-Kon 25 was a tremendous success again. A brutal convention, yes, but we got to meet thousands of fans, of both Two Lumps, and FTF. Did great business, chatted up the fans, partied like madmen after hours. Big props out to the following: Diana Sprinkle, Mookie & Alyssa (god rest her soul), Jen & Obby, Trunks (that horrible louse), Brion and his wife Jen, Blair, Shinga, Jojo, Shark, and the others that I’m too tired to look up right now.
Now back to reality.
I may have posted this before, but I’ve been listening to Combichrist all night while doing comics, and this song and video? Kicks ass.
I have a lot of respect for those that use Black powder weapons. I know a few deer hunters around here in Wisconsin that use them.
They are apparently legal for OC in Texas aswell.
Because they aren’t firearms to your government.
Clearly, he needs to say something like, “My balls are too big.”
No, the proper response, given this particular customer, would to be “You just want my balls.”
Love shooting black powder, nothing else has that same feeling when you fire, I have a .51 Kentucky Long Rifle, the sound that thing makes, you can tell its black powder, doesn’t make that typical pop sound, just a loud BOOM, sounds like a cannon going off, and the smoke, feels awesome.
I want to get my hands on a 1860 Colt Army one day.
Something about them is just too awesome to pass up.
They’re not hard to come by, and good-quality reproduction versions are remarkably affordable.
Australian remember. A brand new BHP is worth 1400-1700 and Black powder pistols are under a certain classification in out handgun laws. Thus you HAVE to shoot a certain number of matches with a BP pistol.
By BHP I mean Browning Hi power. I haven’t found any second hand online and it’s the only pricing on a semiauto I remember off the top of my head.
A S&W M27 -10 (aka the classic version they are putting out now) is worth 1400. A Tikka T3 starts at $900…
A brand new BHP costs about a grand here stateside, not quite the price differential I would have expected. Although it is hands down my favorite pistol.
Ah, right. Sorry about that… You should come over here for a few weeks sometime, and get a boat-load of trigger time. You can go home and be the envy of all your friends. 😉
I guess Tom is just gonna keep visiting, if for no other reason that he has nothing better to do but harass the employees. The name change doesn’t seem to have deterred him.
i ain’t commented in a while, the things you put the caps on are called nipples HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE. http://www.youtube.com/duelist1954 does a butt load of black powder stuff yo.
Wait ’til Tom gets around to comments about “half-cocked.” 😀
Also love me some black powder. Rate of fire is a bit slow, but that great “booooom” and the cloud of flame-shot smoke is sooooo satisfying. 🙂
i wanna get me a cool looking sturdy .44 revolver like a remington 1858 replica
Got me one of those. Quite nice. 🙂
You’ve fired a flintlock revolver? Damn, who’s turning them out?
You want to play with black powder? Go back to the original: matchlock. A definite thrill that percussion doesn’t even come close to matching.
Colt Walker and the LeMat Revolver have always been my two dream blackpowder guns.
Walker due to the fact that it just has a massive black powder charge behind that .44 cal ball. LeMat because hell who doesn’t want a 9 shot, .44 caliber pistol with a damn 20 gauge shotgun barrel underneath it?
Wasn’t the walker loaded with the maximum loading the most powerful handgun in the world until the introduction of the .44 magnum?
It was usually considered the most powerful until the .357 Magnum, actually.
However, the .38-40 and .44-40 more powerful as well and dated to the 19th Century. (The original .44-40 loading had 100 ft-lbs more than the Walker.) Both the .38-40 and .44-40 were used as handgun cartridges in revolvers (the .44-40 moreso).
The .45 Mars Long was known (and advertised) as the most powerful handgun in the world as early as 1899 — but it was a British load, and never took off into standard production.
And that doesn’t even count OTHER “muzzleloading” (i.e., loose powder and ball) pistols like howda pistols.
The mars cartridges were amazingly powerful. The pistols were apparently amazingly painful to shoot so much so that the British military iirc could not find anyone willing to fire one twice. Now, it is possible that much of the issue was expectations, there was no familiarity with monster magnum pistols loaded with high pressure cartridges. The Howdah pistols and the .577 revolvers (DROOL) were low pressure, low velocity systems. Apparently the Mars pistol had a high line of bore compared to the grip, and a fairly heavy rear bolt, or some such.
I have seen where some are making cartridge conversions of Walker Dragoon replicas, using .460 S&W cases as. Black powder Magnums. I have been trying a t determine whether would have been possible to convert either a dragoon or a Le Mat cartridge version ( built in iirc France and used by guards in some of their Penal Island hell holes ) to use the .50 US carbine cartridge. It was a shortened .50-70 case. Sort of like the .500 Linebaugh only blajck powder and 90-100 years earlier. The idea was inspired by an alternate history story/game idea. A rifle in .50-70 could fire the carbine load…
Cabela’s sells replicas of the Navy.36, 1860 Army 44 (prettiest pistol ever imho) and
Walkers, all pretty inexpensive. You can get conversion cylinders for all of them. The 1860 and Walker work with 45 LC or 45 ACP, the 1858 Navy with 38Special.
Imagine if Mick had sufficient presence of mind to say, “You’re gonna have to get your balls somewhere else.”
“Sorry, my balls are heavier than that.”
Oh, that’s a good comeback.
Might sound boring but I would recommend a Remington 1858 (reproduction of course). From what I understand .36 is better if you want to plink and save not only lead but also powder. .44 is better if you want to hunt or use it as a defensive gun (also it can be loaded stout while being subsonic).
The Remingtons are far better designs than the Colts.
Remingtons suck. They’re more nose heavy than the Colt 1860s, don’t point as well, don’t fit in your hand as well, and the aim point is too high. Tactikewel Silly War fanboys will say that the real reason they prefer Remingtons over Colts is because of the “quick cylinder change”, which never actually happened in the 1860s. Colts are all around better shooting irons.
Meh. I only own one cylinder for my ’58. I like the way it points, I’m aware of the aimpoint, and being familiar with my firearm, have no problems with it, and I like how it fits in my hand.
So take your differences and put them where ALL personal opinions belong – In the dumper.
Bottom line: People have many, many reasons for preferring one fireamr over another, and your opinion on the subject is just that – just yours. And mine? Well – It’s just as crappy as your opinion is, too. 😛
Nipples. Dark Siders treasure their nipples. They put caps on ’em and constantly worry if they have enough lube and if they’re going to come out.
I’ve got a couple of consecutively numbered, unfired, SS, 7 1/2″, fixed sight Ruger Old Armies. Unfortunately, they’ve tripled in price as Ruger is no longer making them — and I can’t fire them.
I wont own a fire arm i haven’t fired at least once
Name a price for the Rugers. If I can swing it you’ll have permission to spend a day at the range with them before shipping. Firearms were made to be fired. Otherwise, there are way less expensive sources of paperweights and wall hangings.
The Old Army Rugers are bombproof and tackdrivers as well.
I have a 50 caliber Hawken that I absolutely love. Black powder is super fun
“I don’t have the balls you crave, Tom.”
(Relevantly, also, I actually own a .36 Navy Revolver (copy, of course).
Someday I should actually … shoot it.
What? I’m lazy.)
Nice. That might even give Tom a second’s pause.
Get a Remington New Army if you’re going to get anything. They have a full top strap unlike the Colts and are much sturdier. If you get a Remington, you can also get the replacement cylinders for 45 ACP or 45 LC.
Tom should ask if they have any 3′ long steel ramrods in stock……or ball extractors.
Nipple wrenches?
Nipple picks and vent picks.
It takes a lotta balls to shoot the way I do. (Dead Center is a .45 capper who likes thin muslin, spit-lubed.)
I remember seeing a Howda pistol that must of been .577/450…… Because it was hacked out of a Mrk 2 Martini-Henry service rifle
Pedersoli is selling new-manufactured Howdah pistols in 20-ga, which converts out to .615 Caliber. Of course, that’s pure muzzle-loader, not some nitro-burning Frankensteinian monster… 😉
Not being technically a “firearm” under federal law, most of them can be shipped to your front door. Gunbroker/AuctionArms have plenty of good shooters for about a hundred bucks.
“Sorry Tom, my balls are too big and heavy for what you can handle. Pretty sure my ramrod won’t fit in your barrel either”
“What the Faggoty Faggot are you saying Faggot?”
The term ‘organic’ needs to be retired. Gnome sayin’?
Update no workee?
I think we’re updating around noon now. In a few weeks it may have worked itself back around to the early a.m. 😉
It’s 4:30 pm where I’m at… just agonizing to wait. 🙁
Tom needs to have his balls handed to him.