Black powder pistols are not bad. They’re accurate, a little heavy and have little recoil. Reloading them takes FOREVER.
There are several youtube vids on making paper cartridges for B/P revolvers.
Loading each chamber with loose powder, ball, cup grease, then capping it is a real motherbear.
In which Clint Eastwood movie did he carry Remington revolvers and spare loaded cylinders? Fast as it got before fixed ammo.