{slight hijack}
the most fun I ever had was when about 30 of us went the shooting range and took every weapon you can imagine and also every thing you could imagine to shoot at, this included CD’s from the disco era, TV’s, Blenders, light bulbs, cans of paint… I personally went through about 600 rounds of ammo. One guy had an old rifle (can’t remember the name) that was from the rough riders era ala Teddy Roosevelt. Beautiful rifle, man what a kick
What dropzone said - Things that go boom are a lot of fun, especially when you have to work at it 
Dropzone, I’ll take my cronograph out one of these days but velocities in a C&B revolver are usually well under a thousand feet per second, maybe just supersonic for a very powerful load. Magnum handguns might be in the neighborhood of 1,600fps. Round balls are much lighter than bullets of the same diameter. A .375" ball used in a navy weighs … let me get my scale, a shade under eighty grains. A typical .357 mag bullet might weigh twice that. A .44 cal round ball 137 grains where a .44 magum could use bullets of 240 grains or more. I can maybe see a heavy load in a Walker being more powderful than a “mild” .357 mag load but absolutely not a .44 mag.
Still, I wouldn’t want to be shot with any cap and ball revolver. Some of the best gunfighters and lawmen of the old west favored the “puny” '51 navy. It was good enough for J.B. “Bill” Hickock and my great-creat uncle Morgan and it’s good enough for me. The only serious drawback is in competition where an edge hit on the target won’t ring loud enough sometimes for the spotters to score a hit. I’ll probably start shooting the '60 armies more. They aren’t any heavie than the navies and have a similar feel.
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We were using 90 grains, tops, with the long guns. Was my friend being cautious with his new gun or…what?
Granted, we were aiming for targets, not fighting a war…
::smacks herself inna head::
You were talking about balls, not gun powder.
Sowwy.