Vrubel,
You can get started in this sport less expensively than most others, be it cartridge gun shooting, golf, tennis, skiing, whatnot.
You can expect to pay about 160 USD for a revolver (and up, of course), if you want to buy new, or as little as a hundred if you go to the auctions and win.
4 bucks for a tin of 100 caps, 15 for a pound of BP, if you can get it at your locale, or 20 or so for substitute, 6 to 10 for a 100 balls, 36 cal lower price, 10 for the 44 cal. 6 or so for a powder measure, 15 or so for a powder flask with a built in measuring spout, but you are rather limited to that charge, which is the reccommended charge, and quite adequate to see if you like it, possibly a capper, though you can do without, unless you got fumbly fingers, like I seem to have, lately.
Comes to about 215 bucks, depending on what in the above you deem necessary. Don't worry, if you don't get it now, buy what is the basics, go shoot, see if you like it, if you do, you will be back looking for more goodies.
I think you'll love it.
Damn, Sam, you've been here 7 months, posted 30 times or so, don't be shy, come join us. You've missed some good times. Ask anything you want, someone will give you AN answer, and if it's not quite correct, or fully explained, someone else will chime in. We don't want anyone to get hurt in this game. Hard TO get hurt, with BP guns. They ARE at LEAST as lethal as the moderns, but harder to get an accidental discharge.
Join in, bud, and welcome. What kind do you think you would prefer? Basically, 2 kinds, the Rem topstrap model, and the Colt Open Top models.
Personally, though I now have 3 topstrap Rems, and 2, Colts, still like the Colts. Just more beautiful, to me. Got more in my eye at the auctions.
Cheers,
George