cap-and-ball

A guy with a .45 auto pistol is better armed than one with a cap-and-ball .31 revolver, but if the shooter with the old gun is faster and has better aim?

Cut and Run Steve Perry 2007

I accessed the River Junction link, salivated over the cap-and-ball black powder revolvers shown there.

FINALLY Holly 2006

He buckled the holster around his waist, and before he stuck the Colt back into it, he noticed the revolver had been converted to cartridges from a cap-and-ball version.

Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004

There, lying flat, was an old cap-and-ball revolver.

Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

While Call and the others were hefting various rifles and looking at ammunition pouches, Gus happened to peek into the store itself—there was a girl standing there by a counter who was so lovely that Gus immediately forgot all about cap-and-ball muskets, ammunition pouches, and everything else.

Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995

While Call and the others were hefting various rifles and looking at ammunition pouches, Gus happened to peek into the store itself—there was a girl standing there by a counter who was so lovely that Gus immediately forgot all about cap-and-ball muskets, ammunition pouches, and everything else.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

The old man had a single-shot buffalo gun, and the boy a cap-and-ball pistol.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

Backing out of the weeds, he stepped on the pistol that had misfired, an old cap-and-ball gun.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

You planning to hold me up with that cap-and-ball piece?

SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

The old man had a single-shot buffalo gun, and the boy a cap-and-ball pistol.

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985