Looking for info.

[Forty Rod]

I used to shoot a lot of percussion and am familiar with the Colt designs in cap and ball. 

Looking to get into BP cartridge conversions and seem to recall an 1860 Army that was converted to cartridge, complete with the ejector rod, but that still kept the creeping rammer under the barrel. 

Can anyone help me find a good set of pics of such a beastie if such exists / existed?

Thanks.

[Long Johns Wolf]

Suggest you check www-hege-arms.com
-Westernwaffen
-Revolver Conversions
-Thuer Conversion
Bootsie

[Major 2]

One photo send via email 40 

also as Wolf said... Thuer Conversions

Side note ...Uberti actually prototyped a Thuer Conversion some years back but scraped the plan to reproduce it...
Reason the odd cone cartridges to costly to produce.
However, two were shown at the 2000-1 Shot show.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

The Thuer conversion was designed to circumvent the Rolin White patent.  The cartridge was unique, and not practical for an accurate reproduction today.  Using a breach ring conversion cylinder without removing the rammer would simulate the design, except up-close.

Do you have access to Bruce McDowell's book on Colt Conversions and...?

[Forty Rod]

I don't have it, but someone around here is bound to.

I'll check the local library first.  Strangely enough, they have a pretty good selection of books on guns.

[Major 2]

expect sticker shock , McDowell's book (first published in 1998 I think ) is out of print...
hunt a copy on the web ....   $600 - $1100 BUCKS ... yepper there is gold in them thar pages.

Now there is Adler's book and it is reasonable at $ 27- 39.95 (list)

Dennis Adler ...Metalic Cartridge Conversions

not as concise as the McDowell work , but a good coffee table or throne photo book.....

[Abilene]

I got to play with an Uberti Thuer prototype that Cimarron owns a few years back.  Rotating the conversion ring to "E" and then dropping the hammer to eject the empties out the front of the cylinders was quite interesting.

[Major 2]

yep that's it ! or one of them anyway... the other was engraved 

Thanks for the photo (now saved)