Just wanted to show the naysayers that your pistol is not an anomaly. I just think that most posters are not familiar with this side of BP pistol shooting, and I just stumbled upon it quite recently.
I'm aware of it but have no interest in it whatsoever. Paper punching bores me to tears and if that's all I could shoot I wouldn't shoot at all. My only interest in bp is from a historical aspect and if the guns aren't reasonably representative of arms as they originally came I have no Interest in them. ROA's, short barrels, 99.9% of brass frames, wrong calibers etc. have no place in my little world, population of about a dozen.