hardway
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I finally got out to shoot my Walker today. She's been sitting new, in the box, in my gun safe almost two months now. What was I thinking?
I don't think anything will ever supplant my M14s as my absolute favorite guns to shoot, but this Walker is right up there. What a wonderful, visceral experience to pull the trigger on this horse pistol!
I used .457 rb's, and started with 35 grains of triple 7 fffg, working my way up to 55 grains.
55 grains of triple 7 makes a big boom!
I took her out to this old dump in the hills that's turned into a shooting gallery over the years, I didn't want to pay for range time as it was beginning to sprinkle.
I decided against targets as I didn't feel like slogging through the muck to set them up, and there was plenty of junk out there to shoot at. Once I figured out where to aim, she was accurate (aiming with the tiny front site and the hammer notch is pretty difficult, I'm going to try filing out the hammer notch a bit I think).
I was consistently hitting the screen area of an old TV that was out around 50 yards, and I even got a few hits on a street sign someone had placed in the same area (not a stop sign, but a street name sign). I would have been really happy making these shots with my Sig .40, so in my book this Walker is a shooter!
I have a question. The Walker is supposed to hold 60 grains of bp, and though I didn't go over 55 grains, it seemed like I could jam more than 60 grains in there under the round ball and still rotate the cylinder. I know triple 7 is hotter than standard bp, so I already felt like I was pushing it with 55 grains, but how much triple 7 has anyone here loaded in a Walker?
I love this gun and she won't be staying home when I go a' shootin!
I don't think anything will ever supplant my M14s as my absolute favorite guns to shoot, but this Walker is right up there. What a wonderful, visceral experience to pull the trigger on this horse pistol!
I used .457 rb's, and started with 35 grains of triple 7 fffg, working my way up to 55 grains.
55 grains of triple 7 makes a big boom!
I took her out to this old dump in the hills that's turned into a shooting gallery over the years, I didn't want to pay for range time as it was beginning to sprinkle.
I decided against targets as I didn't feel like slogging through the muck to set them up, and there was plenty of junk out there to shoot at. Once I figured out where to aim, she was accurate (aiming with the tiny front site and the hammer notch is pretty difficult, I'm going to try filing out the hammer notch a bit I think).
I was consistently hitting the screen area of an old TV that was out around 50 yards, and I even got a few hits on a street sign someone had placed in the same area (not a stop sign, but a street name sign). I would have been really happy making these shots with my Sig .40, so in my book this Walker is a shooter!
I have a question. The Walker is supposed to hold 60 grains of bp, and though I didn't go over 55 grains, it seemed like I could jam more than 60 grains in there under the round ball and still rotate the cylinder. I know triple 7 is hotter than standard bp, so I already felt like I was pushing it with 55 grains, but how much triple 7 has anyone here loaded in a Walker?
I love this gun and she won't be staying home when I go a' shootin!
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