Disappointed (big time)

[edggy]

Thank You Smokin Gun I havent stop looking at it. I did bust my knuckles on
the table pulling the barrel off to slip the cylinder out. Boy it was on there
tight.

 

[dwave]

Yeah, my Colt 51 Navy was the same way, they had that pin in tight. Enjoy your new gun and tell us how it does.

 

[edggy]

Thank You dwave, They tell you to use the loading Lever to help pull the revolver apart. I push until I was blue.I finally got a plastic mallet and WD40
and started tapping the cylinder and off it came with my knuckles. And yes I
was no longer using the loading lever and pulling the barrel when I hit my knuckles (ran out of patients) my fault.

 

[Tinker2]

Edggy

Tell me, please, how you to use the loading Lever for leverage?




Thanks

Tinker2

 

[edggy]

No) I Didnt word it right. The instructions just tell you to use it to help pull
the revolver apart.

 

[dwave]

Yeah it helps to get the barrel off. Sometimes after shooting the barrel won't come off after you remove the wedge, so you use the loading lever to pop it off by putting the cylinder to where the plunger will hit on a wall instead of going down in a chamber and then push the loading lever down and the barrel will come off without alot of trouble.

 

[edggy]

dwave what do you use to lubricate the base pin.

 

[dwave]

I lube the base pin and the back of the cylinder with bore butter because I think that it works better than crisco, but I use the crisco over the chambers because it is cheaper to shoot up. Before I shoot, I wipe out my cylinders of all oil and the barrel too. I also wipe down the frame too, then put the bore butter on the base pin and the back of the cylinder because it does rub on the frame.

 

[pohill]

Walker

Be prepared for at least two things to go wrong with the Walker: the loading lever will fall on every shot, and spent caps will fall into the innards. Oh yeah - mine sets off car alarms in the parkinglot.
As far as the Colt/Remington/Ruger comparisons - I traded a beautiful Remington NMA (Uberti) to Smoking Gun for a Colt Paterson. That Remington was (is) a great shooter, accurate, easy to clean, etc, but there's something about a Colt, even the ugly duckling Paterson. Recently I almost bought a used Ruger...almost... but I bought a Colt Colt 1861 .36 Navy (Signature Series). It's a looker and a shooter. I have a Spiller & Burr .36, which is basically a pre-Remington, and someday I will get that Ruger, but I guts the Colt fever.

 

[pohill]

Walker mainspring

Oh yeah, Edggy, forgot to mention - be careful when removing the Walker mainspring. I bought a main spring vise from Track of the Wolf that works pretty well, or you can use a small pair of visegrips with a piece of leather, but that spring really has some SPRING to it. Watch your eyes and the light hanging over the kitchen table. CLANG!!!

 

[Smokin_Gun]

I must say that Sophia R. Uberti (1858Rem) Sure is a good looker and a fine shooter. I am Glad we got the chance to get what we had to have...HeHe!
Actually that one is a favored and pretty much loaded all the time Rev. I got a Lee .457" 2cav. mold locally gonna try some out tomorrow. Cyn and I got another Range date/picinic. I'm gonna try to make it a Colt day, but Sophia will be commin' along too. the .457" fit very well..I had tried some .457 sedged last time I was out and they shot well. The Colt Dragoon likes the ..457's as it has .450" chambers. Got that 1851 Uberti Navy's cones turned down just right...CCI#11's fire and fall off about as fast as I can cock it and pull the trigger...(that's empty) Will see what it does with 24gr of FFFg BP...
Range report tomorrow.
Catch ya,

 

[edggy]

pohill, I'am thinking of buying a standing tripod from Cabela's for mine.
this revolver is super heavy there's no way anyone can shoot free hand for a
extended period. I know some of the other shooters will be sniggering at me
but I don't care (why) I have the Walker they do not. Anyway (track of the wolf) is that a web site or a store.

 

[mec]

My Walker and Dragoon are the smoothest functioning of my replicas. It never is surprising though when a lemon shows up. Your chances of getting a good one the firest time with Uberti are fairly high but it's always a crap shoot. I find that the pocket models- both 31 and 36 usually require a fair amount of tuning and opening up of clearances. the most troublesome one I've gotten recently is a levered Paterson that had multiple clearance issues that interfered with function.

 

[pohill]

Walker

Edggy, Trackofthewolf.com is one of several websites that sells black powder "stuff." I've had good luck them them, also with Midway, VTI, Dixie Gunworks, Traditions and Taylors. I bought an 1862 .36 Pocket Police (Uberti) from Midway, and it went on sale a week later - Midway credited me the difference (about $62.00). As far as shooting the Walker - my 1862 .36 has, relatively speaking, as much kick as the Walker. A gun that big absorbs recoil. I use 45 grains of black powder (some use more...some use alot more) with .454 roundballs. Shoot it as late in the day as you can to see the "flame show" from its muzzle. Try it without the tripod - you'll like it. Keep track of each spent cap - they like to fall into the hammer chasm. I give you alot of credit for starting out with a Walker - I worked my way up from an 1860 .44 Army (which, by the way, is probably the most balanced, easiest to shoot revolver that I own). You will run into problems with the Walker - any questions that you might have, try dealing directly with Taylors, instead of where you bought it (Taylors imports the Ubertis). Don't return a gun due to minor problems - learn to repair/fix as you go along. And that screw over the wedge is a Voume Control - turn it all the way down and the neighbors won't hear you cussing at your gun.

 

[subgunner]

I order a Walker from Midway. When I received my Uberti Walker, the cylinder wouldn't index, with the cylinder spinning both ways. Bad handspring. Back to Midway it went. Just received the replacement, Guess what, Midway sent the same Walker back to me (same serial #). So I got a refund. Should have got a Pietta.

 

[DixieTexian]

That Ruger is gonna ride on my hip for backup while hog hunting soon as I can get up to east Texas. I wanna get the work done to it first, though. When I get the Remmie, it'll likely be a range queen. But, heck, it's BP! I was kinda thinkin' about getting a cartridge conversion cylinder for it in the future if I like it as a shooter. That could give it some uses it wouldn't otherwise have as a field gun. But, heck, I have a stainless .45 colt blackhawk that puts 'em in under 4moa. I shoot .44 mag level handloads out of that thing. My light load puts a 255 grain cast flat point out the barrel at 950 or so FPS. Why would I wanna tote a Remmie that ain't no more totable? It might be a little more totable than that big ol' Ruger, but in black powder hunting for hogs, I think I'd rather have the power and accuracy of the Ruger, thanks. If I slap a big hog with that Hawkin .50 and it don't slow him down, I have more faith in the Ruger than any other BP revolver on the market. I'd carry my .45 colt blackhawk if it was legal at that particular WMA (Texas public hunting, BP only rules there). But, I like the looks and feel of Remmies and as a range shooter, it should be fun and it's not expensive. I've always wanted a Remmie, anyway.

All the pig hunting I've used in East Texas didn't involve shooting the pigs. Real men catch them live or stick them. Oh, I'd be carefull about carrying a ROA huting during muzzleloader season in Texas. Texas does not consider them a muzzle loader for hunting purposes.

So I got a refund. Should have got a Pietta.

Pietta doesn't make a Walker unless something has changed recently.