Walker vz 3rd Dragoon

[ClemBert]

Is the main spring different in a 2nd model vs 3rd model?

 

[Fingers McGee]

Is the main spring different in a 2nd model vs 3rd model?

No, they are the same. Patersons, Walkers, Transition Walkers and 1st Model Dragoons have a V type mainspring, all other models have a single leaf mainspring.

 

[ClemBert]

No, they are the same. Patersons, Walkers, Transition Walkers and 1st Model Dragoons have a V type mainspring, all other models have a single leaf mainspring.

Thanks. That is what I thought. As such I think I'll continue to consider the 2nd model over the 3rd. I would have dropped consideration of the 2nd model had it have the V type main spring.

....I know, I know...get 'em all.

 

[Bill Akins]

Clembert wrote:
U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne): "Why, by God, girl, that's a Colt's Dragoon!" in reference to the Colt Walker that Mattie is holding up.

Coincidentally I just watched True Grit again last night. I didn't look that closely at the girl's father's Dragoon. But are you telling me that the Duke and his movie property master/firearms provider used a Walker and called it a Dragoon? I've still got the movie saved in my cable saved show listing, I'll have to view it again and fast forward to when they show the revolver so I can look at it more closely. If they used a Walker and called it a Dragoon, I have to wonder why they didn't just use a Dragoon? I mean the Duke knew firearms, he worked with them all his life. Strange.


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[madcratebuilder]

Walker....Dragoon...indecision? Then you need a Whitneytville Dragoon. Half Walker, half Dragoon.

It's big, heavy, the loading lever well fall down at the most inopportune time, eats too much powder and is like no other Colt revolver.

The Walker

Dragoons....

Fluted

3rd model

Texas Dragoon

 

[ClemBert]

Coincidentally I just watched True Grit again last night. I didn't look that closely at the girl's father's Dragoon. But are you telling me that the Duke and his movie property master/firearms provider used a Walker and called it a Dragoon? I've still got the movie saved in my cable saved show listing, I'll have to view it again and fast forward to when they show the revolver so I can look at it more closely. If they used a Walker and called it a Dragoon, I have to wonder why they didn't just use a Dragoon? I mean the Duke knew firearms, he worked with them all his life. Strange.

A Walker is a Dragoon. That is, an 1847 Walker Dragoon. All it really means is that it is a revolver intended for use by a horse mounted soldier. So, they did get it right....and it was a Walker.

 

[Series70]

Movie refs

But are you telling me that the Duke and his movie property master/firearms provider used a Walker and called it a Dragoon?

I just read True Grit again a few days ago, and Mattie had her father's Dragoon. The line in the movie came from the book, I'd bet, and the prop master probably didn't think the Dragoon looked unwieldy enough.

Gus McRae carried a Dragoon in Lonesome Dove, too, as I recall. See the saloon scene where he tosses a shot glass and shoots it in the air to get the attention of some smart-alecks.