Bishop Creek
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Picked up a new (to me) Walker a week ago from my Brother, who bought it at a gun show over 10 years ago. He just put it away in his safe and never shot it, and as I always have wanted one, I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
It is an Uberti imported by Cimarron and after great effort with a magnifying glass, found the tiny date code stamped “BL” on the underside the frame, showing that it was made in 1998. At that time Cimarron was putting fake Colt stamps on their guns and this one has “ADDRESS SAML COTL NEY-WORK CITY” on the top of the barrel and “COTLS PATENT’” (LOL!) on the side of the frame. Only other visible marks on the gun are the “US 1847” on the right side of the barrel above the wedge. It is stamped “Cimarron Uberti” in very small letters under the loading lever. I'm not quite sure, but it appears to be in charcoal blue, though it may be more of a Colt blue, as the pictures don't really show the real color. It has a few rusty spots from long-term storage in a safe. I’m sure they will buff right out.
After pounding out the wedge with a rubber hammer, I took the pistol partially apart and it appeared to be unfired, no signs of powder and not a single mark of any kind on the cylinder. The slot in the arbor for the wedge had several burrs on it so I lightly sanded those down with one of my wife’s finger nail emery boards (don’t tell her!) and the wedge is much easier to take in and out now. I didn’t want to take off too much as I know from experience with Colt type models that the wedge will eventually loosen up the more I fire it.
My brother and I took it out to shoot last weekend I and discovered that that the nipples (called cones in the 19th Century) were not uniform in size and only three of the nipples would easily take my Remington #10 caps. None of the Remington #10 caps or any other sizes and brands of caps I tried fit properly on the other nipples so I forced some number 10s on those nipples (I know, I know) and aimed at some tin cans at 25 yards with 50 grains of Goex 3fffg powder dumped in each chamber under Wonder Wads and .454 round balls. WOW! What a ground pounder! The boom and flame were quite impressive even though it shot about 5 inches high at that distance. The loading lever did not drop, though it might if I were to use 60 grains. You can see it almost starting to drop under recoil in the photo of me shooting the Walker below.
I have been shooting cap and ball revolvers since 1969 and this was the most fun shooting that I’ve had in a long time, but after the problems with the nipples I ordered a set of Slix-Shot Walker nipples as all my other cap pistols use Remington #10 caps and I have nearly 2,000 of that size cap, which is why I didn’t order Treso nipples as they use #11 caps. I read Fingers McGee’s review of the Slix-Shot nipples on older threads on this forum and based on his recommendations will give them a try. If the weather holds (we had snow and heavy rain the last few days-I live in the mountainous Great Basin Desert on the Calif-Nevada border) I will try the Slix-Shot nipples out this weekend and report back here.
It is an Uberti imported by Cimarron and after great effort with a magnifying glass, found the tiny date code stamped “BL” on the underside the frame, showing that it was made in 1998. At that time Cimarron was putting fake Colt stamps on their guns and this one has “ADDRESS SAML COTL NEY-WORK CITY” on the top of the barrel and “COTLS PATENT’” (LOL!) on the side of the frame. Only other visible marks on the gun are the “US 1847” on the right side of the barrel above the wedge. It is stamped “Cimarron Uberti” in very small letters under the loading lever. I'm not quite sure, but it appears to be in charcoal blue, though it may be more of a Colt blue, as the pictures don't really show the real color. It has a few rusty spots from long-term storage in a safe. I’m sure they will buff right out.
After pounding out the wedge with a rubber hammer, I took the pistol partially apart and it appeared to be unfired, no signs of powder and not a single mark of any kind on the cylinder. The slot in the arbor for the wedge had several burrs on it so I lightly sanded those down with one of my wife’s finger nail emery boards (don’t tell her!) and the wedge is much easier to take in and out now. I didn’t want to take off too much as I know from experience with Colt type models that the wedge will eventually loosen up the more I fire it.
My brother and I took it out to shoot last weekend I and discovered that that the nipples (called cones in the 19th Century) were not uniform in size and only three of the nipples would easily take my Remington #10 caps. None of the Remington #10 caps or any other sizes and brands of caps I tried fit properly on the other nipples so I forced some number 10s on those nipples (I know, I know) and aimed at some tin cans at 25 yards with 50 grains of Goex 3fffg powder dumped in each chamber under Wonder Wads and .454 round balls. WOW! What a ground pounder! The boom and flame were quite impressive even though it shot about 5 inches high at that distance. The loading lever did not drop, though it might if I were to use 60 grains. You can see it almost starting to drop under recoil in the photo of me shooting the Walker below.
I have been shooting cap and ball revolvers since 1969 and this was the most fun shooting that I’ve had in a long time, but after the problems with the nipples I ordered a set of Slix-Shot Walker nipples as all my other cap pistols use Remington #10 caps and I have nearly 2,000 of that size cap, which is why I didn’t order Treso nipples as they use #11 caps. I read Fingers McGee’s review of the Slix-Shot nipples on older threads on this forum and based on his recommendations will give them a try. If the weather holds (we had snow and heavy rain the last few days-I live in the mountainous Great Basin Desert on the Calif-Nevada border) I will try the Slix-Shot nipples out this weekend and report back here.
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