First black powder pistol.

[45 Dragoon]

After some thought, my experience with my Walker (about 20 years ago) is much the same as you see in these threads. About spitting lead and eating wedges with full loads. After learning over the years, the spitting lead can be attributed to miss-alignment with barrel and cyl.. The same may be for the wedge diet that some have. It may need to be perfect alignment to cure the wedge problem as well as forcing cone inconsistencies. So, if you go the Walker route, keep in mind, a real good tuning may go a long way for this prob as well. I know that internals will last soo much longer anyway but this particular prob may be reduced or cured.


45 Dragoon

 

[EvilGenius]

After some thought, my experience with my Walker (about 20 years ago) is much the same as you see in these threads. About spitting lead and eating wedges with full loads. After learning over the years, the spitting lead can be attributed to miss-alignment with barrel and cyl.. The same may be for the wedge diet that some have. It may need to be perfect alignment to cure the wedge problem as well as forcing cone inconsistencies. So, if you go the Walker route, keep in mind, a real good tuning may go a long way for this prob as well. I know that internals will last soo much longer anyway but this particular prob may be reduced or cured.


45 Dragoon

If a brand new Walker repro has that issue how can you tell?

I'd hate to do a ton of damage to the wedge before I finally realize what's going on.

 

[45 Dragoon]

Sure, there are forcing cone gauges and cutters. Checking barrel / cyl. alignment with dummy rounds / chamber gauges. I think there would be min. wedge eating also when the short arbor prob. is corrected as well as proper barrel /cyl. gap. The gap could easily be maintained with a captured wedge set up.

45 Dragoon