maillemaker
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So after our N-SSA skirmish was over this weekend I was able to try out my Uberti Colt Walker. I loaded up some .454 round ball with 50 grains of 3F Shuetzen (which I hate - very dirty powder).
I would have tried 60 grains but it won't fit in my plastic tubes for making up cartridges.
Recoil is almost non-existant. It is just hard to move such a massive 4.5 pound gun.
Loading leaver dropped down on me a couple of times. I have not filed on the latch as some people do. I will probably make a leather loop to hold the lever up.
I wondered what the point of the shallow groove was in the cut-away in the capping area of the nipple shield on the 1860 Army. Well now I know - the simple cut-away on the Walker is not quite enough to easily fit caps on the nipples.
The machined cut-out notch to allow clearance for the ball to rotate under the loading lever is razor sharp on my Uberti. You could easily easily cut yourself on it if you ran your finger into that notch and twisted, say chasing out some lube or a lead ring.
I shot at a hanging 12" square piece of sheet rock. Using two hands, I kissed it at 100 yards. But later at 50 yards I missed with all 6 shots. My final shot, at 25 yards, I clipped the wire the sheet rock was hanging from, and cut it. It was fitting.
I noticed during cleaning that there is no forcing cone on the Walker - the rifling goes end-to-end on the barrel.
Steve
I would have tried 60 grains but it won't fit in my plastic tubes for making up cartridges.
Recoil is almost non-existant. It is just hard to move such a massive 4.5 pound gun.
Loading leaver dropped down on me a couple of times. I have not filed on the latch as some people do. I will probably make a leather loop to hold the lever up.
I wondered what the point of the shallow groove was in the cut-away in the capping area of the nipple shield on the 1860 Army. Well now I know - the simple cut-away on the Walker is not quite enough to easily fit caps on the nipples.
The machined cut-out notch to allow clearance for the ball to rotate under the loading lever is razor sharp on my Uberti. You could easily easily cut yourself on it if you ran your finger into that notch and twisted, say chasing out some lube or a lead ring.
I shot at a hanging 12" square piece of sheet rock. Using two hands, I kissed it at 100 yards. But later at 50 yards I missed with all 6 shots. My final shot, at 25 yards, I clipped the wire the sheet rock was hanging from, and cut it. It was fitting.
I noticed during cleaning that there is no forcing cone on the Walker - the rifling goes end-to-end on the barrel.
Steve