Which cap and ball revolver?

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

If you cant get a ROA , I personally would get a 5" 1860 Pietta .
Debur the gun , lighten the hammer spring , and install slick shot nipples .
Run 30gr of 777 hot powder and use the biggest Conical I can fit in the pistol .
Should put you close to a factory 357 .

I used to hunt this way with a ROA .
And yes it did pack a walop !
Just saying .
Rooster

[Tinker Pearce]

When I used to deer hunt with a muzzle loader, before I left the house for an AM hunt I made it a habit after capping to put a drop or two of candle wax around the nipple to keep the morning moisture out. The gun always went off fine. I would think that a revolver in a nice full flap holster would be ok but I don't see why you couldn't seal the caps and it should keep the caps on for an all day carry. I've never tried it on a pistol though.

This- when I handed coyotes in Kansas with a cap-gun (back in the way-backs) I'd use a birthday candle too fill the area around each nipple with wax then press the caps into it. Sealed it up good and held the cap well.

[Bunk Stagnerg]

there is a Third Model sitting on my bench. Interesting gun to shoot with plenty of oomph if you want to stoke it up, but the thing really needs a wheels and trails.
If you are a young whippersnapper and feel strong go for it, but a .44 caliber 1860 Army for a finishing shot is plenty big enough.
With one caveat, the game laws in some states forbid carrying a hand gun so if the law allows it do it, otherwise a big NO
Lots of folks had their tickets punched by .44 caliber revolvers during the late unpleasantness 1861-1865 so a small critter like a deer using a slug rather than a ball should do the trick. Check the you-tube video  by Bottom Dealing Mike on .44 Army ballistics.
Yr' Obt' Svt'
Bunk 

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[Bunk Stagnerg]

here is the link to part 1 .44 ballistics

copy, paste you know the drill to a youtube video
Worth the trouble
Bunk

[Professor Marvel]

there is a Third Model sitting on my bench. Interesting gun to shoot with plenty of oomph if you want to stoke it up, but the thing really needs a wheels and trails.

Ah My Dear Bunk -
You have voiced my feelings exactly!

I "always wanted" a Walker, until I handled one.
Then I "always wanted" a Dragoon, until I lucked into a pair of "fixer-upers" ... and tried to hang them from holsters.

These are Definitely Horse Pistols, to be hung from saddle-holsters!

yhs
prof marvel

[greyhawk]

here is the link to part 1 .44 ballistics

copy, paste you know the drill to a youtube video
Worth the trouble
Bunk

Video was fun BUT - not fair ---he only loaded 30 grains powder for all three ? - a fair test woulda been load em all to capacity - so you get five or six more grains powder under a round ball than the conicals will take - better velocity would cancel out some of the conical ""advantage""

[Crow Choker]

Strange the OP hasn't chimed back in with all the comments for his dilemma that he requested advice on. Like has been posted, if game laws prevent carrying, mote point. If you down a deer with any chunk of lead that doesn't kill it by the time you walk up to it, you have time to stuff another ball/bullet down the tube and administer a kill shot. Why strap on a leg iron (weighing 3-4.5 lbs) and carry it all day when the long pole you carry in your hands is all that's needed. If anybody is thinking a 2nd or 3rd kill shot on a running deer in brush or extended yardage with some horse pistol--good luck, besides the game warden may give ya a summons if against your state regs if ya get caught.