Colt Walker in movies

[SixShootinSam]

Yep, Lonesome Dove episode 2, there's quite a bit of Walker appearance. Even smacked a guy in the nose with its barrel . That oughtta hurt a little.
Pretty nice though that he hangs on to that thing even though there are plenty of cartridge guns around. I would think his Walker wasn't a conversion, if they even had one for Walkers back then.

 

[mike101]

Actually, the Walker Duval used in the movie had a R&D conversion cylinder in it. The 1860, which I didn't even notice, did not.

There was big article about Gus's guns in Guns of the Old West mag. last year.

 

[Afy]

here is a cool video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONhgVHs5wYI

 

[Plastic Cowboy]

That is a good video- one thing though, the Colt Walker is NOT anywhere near as powerful as a .44 magnum.

I have a walker repro and yes, it is very large, and packs quite a wallop- but it's a 125gr (I think) soft lead ball at probably 1100 fps.

Compare this to a standard .44 mag load which is a 240 gr. hollowpoint at 1300 fps.

Just shoot each one and you will know what I'm talking about. A hot loaded .44 mag is a hell of a lot of gun!!

 

[pohill]

I've often heard that the Walker was the most powerful handgun until the .357 or .44. I have a Walker and a .357 - the Walker gives less kick than the .357 (and certainly less than a .44). Now, I don't know much about ballistics, but is there more to the power of a handgun than muzzle velocity? The Walker bullet is slower, but what about its stopping power?

 

[geim druth]

There are a lot of percussion revolvers in the Toby Maguire movie 'Ride With The Devil'. I don't know enough to say which kinds were used, but there must be a few Walkers and Dragoons in there somewhere.

 

[Desert Scorpion]

There is also a Walker in a movie called (The Three Amigos) One of them uses it in a scene as he duels with one of the guys.

 

[vynx]

Anyone else notice a faint similarity between the Ruger Super Redhawk and the Colt Walker?

9 inch & 9.5 inch barrels , massive larger than usual frame

to me its like ruger made a 20th century version of the Walker.

 

[mike101]

If you want to see a modern day Walker, check out the Magnum Research BFR. It comes in all the nastiest handgun calibers, and lots of rifle calibers, too. www.magnumresearch.com.

If you load a Walker with 50 or 60 grains of 777, I'll bet you get at least 1400fps, using a 200 gr. conical. It still probably won't kick, because of that massive barrel.

Check out some of the testing done by www.bigironbarrels.com.

 

[pohill]

Tony The Tiger says, "They're grrrrrrrrrreaaaaat!"

 

[Desert Scorpion]

I would shoot one for breakfast anyday.

 

[ArmedBear]

mec is absolutely right.

In Last Man Standing, the bartender played by William Sanderson uses an old Walker to kill Doyle, the Irish mob boss, in the final climactic scene.

Note that Last Man Standing is a redux of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, which starred Clint Eastwood. Its groundbreaking Spaghetti Western film noir style had a huge impact on the rest of Eastwood's Westerns and other films.

The Walker was one of many visual tie-ins with the "original" film.

Of course it wasn't really the original, as Last Man Standing credited Akira Kurosawa as a writer, since it was, as Leone's movie also, based on Kurosawa's film Yojimbo. On the other hand, Kurosawa said that he had adapted the older film The Glass Key, which, itself, got its story from a Dashiell Hammett novel. It seems he also used elements from yet another Hammett novel.

See, we really just watch the same movie over and over with a different name. No wonder cinema receipts are going down...

 

[mec]

I missed all those movie tie-ins. I do prefer to see Willis coreographing a pair of 1911s than a bunch of guys swinging samurai swords. Thell Reed Jr. was the coreographer on the gun work in LMS. Moved me to buy a similar holster for my old style 'lls

Idaho leather co.

 

[schultz's honor]

Wasn't there a Colt Walker in "The quick and the Dead"
Sam Elliott, Sam Conti, Kate Capshaw?
Maybe just a Colt