Colt Walker - Again
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As I was watching this, I was thinking you guys need to talk to Mark from eras gone and then at the very end I heard you had. So very happy to hear! He has helped me out tremendously with in the last year to where im now making my own combustible paper cartridges and my own cartridge packets. He had recommended treso firing cones for my bp pistols and they work great! Also ive noticed the remington caps do better than the cci ones. I made and sent Mark a small woden mallet that i use for the cross key on my pistols. If you guys want I can make and send you guys one too. Love the black powder series. Keep it up !
Make sure to tell him you're enjoying his help!
"... with the big iron on his hip."
He-Man. . .She-Ra. . . The line of "NOT SO FAST, BEAST-MAN!" from the Masters of the Universe action figure commercial just crawled out of it's 35-year memory-cave. Thanks guys. . . . . . . . . .I think. . . . . XD
I'd get a Walker repro, but I already have a first model Dragoon repro. So I'm going to go with an 1860 Navy repro instead for more variety.
Remember, Sam Colt himself just considered the Dragoons to be product-improved Walkers...
You sold me on the absurd massive handgun, now if only they weren't sold out wherever I try to look for them.
Just wondering if you are going to stay muzzle loading through out series or show the conversion cylinders that were available later on
Can't look at one of these without thinking of Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. 'By God, Woodrow, it's been one hell of a party.'
Loved the scene where he pistol whips the bar tender with it.
Glad to see you covering Colt black powder revolvers! I have been shooting reproductions for 50 years and still get a thrill when I unload them.
Glad RIA's on board. Uberti should be all over this! Great episode! I'm trying to picture the Walker paired with a S&W No. 1...
"Buy me a gun just as long as my arm" - well, Mae's arm is longer but not by much!
Loved your “mathy” statement.
I thoroughly enjoyed this… thank you
Btw the flavor of RIA Auction that I like the most starts tommorow and goes through the 12th. It's a sporting and collector which often has lots of a up to a half dozen milsurps. Or single lots of the more expensive stuff like a in this auction a lever nugget whose wood is is poor enough condition I might be able to win it.
Mae should have been on horse back and shot watermelons at 5 yds. 😃
Great episode! I’ve been reading quite a bit about the period. This pistol (in trained hands) against large targets and masses of infantry would have been “ideal”. As a “pistol” in a modern sense no - to me it would be more like a 1840’s SMG or auto carbine…. but in a combat against masses of infantry or calvary. Remember in mounted combat killing horses was seen as a significant if not the primary tactic.
Yay!👍🏾🎉
Thanks, guys, for putting all the hours in to provide us with so much top quality informative and entertaining content. I look forward to watching this over lunch later.
Agreed, a very interesting episode, but then they all are - loved the Bergman too. Othias does a great job on the personalities involved with the guns, and Mae and his 'scholarly' debates are fun.
Such a lovely episode! More of this, please!
Thanks for doing the repair!
Oh boy! Double engagement time