Well, probably late to the party, but here's a website that just came up on my radar. It might be of interest to some of y'all here on the forum.

https://capandballrevolvers.com/

What lead me to it was an article on the "birth of the replica revolver industry". There's some interesting info on "how it all got started". Love the connection to Bannerman and Colt's surplus parts sell off.

https://capandballrevolvers.com/blog-articles/the-birth-of-the-reproduction-percussion-...

most interesting.

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS! More than 95% of my shooting the last two years has been percussion pistols. Here are my latest which I got from a reader just before Christmas. They are all Colt Black Powder Arms Second Generation from the 1970s:

wait a minute... the bottom one looks like a ".44" "version" of the 1851... you say all the ones are Colt 2nd Gens? ... didn't know Colt had a 1851 made in .44... Hehehe... it looks a lot like my Italian repro 1851 in ".44" ... I noticed the stepped frame and cylinder right away...

IT IS A MODEL 1862 .36 BUILT ON THE .31 FRAME--HENCE THE STEP.