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1 posted on 12/24/2014 8:10:35 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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If you can’t get any 22 RF, how about Black Powder and lead?


2 posted on 12/24/2014 8:13:35 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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3 posted on 12/24/2014 8:15:22 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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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.


4 posted on 12/24/2014 8:16:23 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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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!


5 posted on 12/24/2014 8:16:28 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Just say NO to Bush in 2016.)
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7 posted on 12/24/2014 8:17:01 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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You want to see guns check out hickok45 on youtube


9 posted on 12/24/2014 8:19:03 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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What about the 500 S&W Magnum?


12 posted on 12/24/2014 8:24:34 PM PST by bandleader
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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.


13 posted on 12/24/2014 8:28:34 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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It really needs wheels and a trailer hitch.


15 posted on 12/24/2014 8:31:16 PM PST by ozzymandus
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Sweet! I have an 1851 Colt Navy in .36 (steel frame - none of that brass crap):

The wife and I also got gifted a pair of .22 mag wheel guns this evening. To keep the possums at bay, ya know.

16 posted on 12/24/2014 8:31:54 PM PST by Viking2002
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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.


18 posted on 12/24/2014 8:49:12 PM PST by eartrumpet
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And even if you run out of powder caps or ball, they are still great for whacking surly bartenders.


19 posted on 12/24/2014 9:40:08 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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With cylinder fully packed
60 grains
was quite the wheelgun

I have packed 70 in mine which is a Hawken rifle load

The Dragoon...a hair smaller was fine too

Fully loaded walker ballistics similar to .357 but heavier grain......in conical

Impressive for 1847

29 posted on 12/25/2014 1:28:21 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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The ultimate survival weapon, long after the case ammo is all gone these will still be slinging lead. I have 2 of these .44 Italian made. Amazingly well behaved if not slightly awkward. Accurate too once you get the hang of it.


38 posted on 12/25/2014 7:57:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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