I have never studied the differences and from what I read

by JimT, Texas, Monday, September 25, 2023, 14:15 (424 days ago) @ Paul

about the originals there were a lot of minor variations among the same model. The Wells Fargo guns don't have a loading ram and have a rounded trigger guard. To me that's the only difference I can see.

I have messed with the idea of an oversize ball and shrinking it to make the small short barrel guns shoot harder. And it works. I have a home-made single shot that I screw the barrel out, drop in a .375" ball, fill up the rest of the chamber with powder and screw it back into the frame. Put a cap on it and BANG. Shrinks the ball to about .360" and shoots pretty hard. I have 3 different smooth bore barrels for it .. 2" 3" and 4".

My old .44 Remington 1858 copy had a .445" barrel and I reamed the throat and the chambers and used .456"/.457" round ball. Shrinking the ball that much really increased the velocity. Accuracy was excellent.

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