Black Powder Pistol Home Defense
Ok Ok Ok, so you have to defend your homestead and all you have is black powder. Do not knock it, for certain legal reasons and in some jurisdictions, the only handguns available fire black powder. Furthermore, many black powder handguns can be acquired for lower cost than a functional cartridge one.
Over the past decade or so, there has been amazing advances in black powder bullets. Using sabot rounds many black powder rifles can meet or exceed the performance of modern center fire cartridge firing breechloaders. However, these rounds are not available for black powder handguns. This leaves owners of these using 1870s technology.
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