Posted on 12/24/2014 8:10:34 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
Detailed -- and interesting -- information about an impressive firearm.
If you can’t get any 22 RF, how about Black Powder and lead?
That looks like a picture out of the Uberti catalog. I have the Uberti Walker kit gun in the white, almost ready for case hardening and bluing.
I have owned a lot of black powder cap ‘n ball revolvers over the past four decades, but never a Walker. Shot one once with about 45 grains of powder. Real nice!
Love that grave marker. Boot hill at Tombstone, AZ. Have the same photo myself.
Much easier to get than .22s. If not black powder, Pyrodex (a black powder substitute) will work. Cast lead bullets are available at most gun stores and on line.
You want to see guns check out hickok45 on youtube
Yer gonna put somebody’s eye out!
What about the 500 S&W Magnum?
Little Bill Daggett: You see, the night that Corky walked into the Blue Bottle, and before he knows what’s happening, Bob here takes a shot at him! And he misses, ‘cause he’s so damn drunk. Now that bullet whizzing by panicked old Corky, and he did the wrong thing. He went for his gun in such a hurry that he shot his own damn toe off. Meantime Bob here, he’s aiming real good, and he squeezes off another, but he misses, because he’s still so damn drunk, and he hits this thousand-dollar mirror up over the bar. And now, the Duck of Death is as good as dead. Because Corky does it right. He aims real careful, no hurry...
W.W. Beauchamp: And...?
Little Bill Daggett: BAM! That Walker Colt blew up in his hand, which was a failing common to that model. You see, if old Corky had had two guns instead of just a big dick, he would have been there right to the end to defend himself.
It really needs wheels and a trailer hitch.
The wife and I also got gifted a pair of .22 mag wheel guns this evening. To keep the possums at bay, ya know.
From Wikipedia:
the [.44 Walker was ] most powerful commercially manufactured repeating handgun from 1847 until the introduction of the .357 Magnum in 1935
I had a Dixie Gun works Walker in the 80s. It was a pup to shoot since it weighed the same as a Buick. The loading lever dropped about every 3rd shot. If a rabbit crawled inside a junk car door, the Walker would punch right thru and get him after the little .31 Colt loaded with a buckshot and the .36 Navy only dented the door.
And even if you run out of powder caps or ball, they are still great for whacking surly bartenders.
Yeah, I was wondering who wrote this article, Calvin Coolidge? There's a new big dog in town, and it starts with 3-5-7.
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