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I need to get you together with my brother, he's in Silver City. You guys could get a hunt organized and split the meat.

Barrel has been cut as well. If it's an ASM it has a short arbor that needs to be fixed before any serious shooting happens. I have seen some examples of a folding leaf rear sight on some of the big horse pistols.

Very nice early pistol!

I've heard that area where you live is snake central. I used to live just south of you about 30 miles, we were constantly finding baby rattlesnakes. Not good when you have 2 little kids running around grabbing everything that moves. Get some 38 shot shells for that single action, not much range...

Almost sounds like an endshake issue combined with not enough head space. When it's pointed down hill the cylinder is free to turn. When the barrel is up the cylinder moves back and closes the gap at the recoil shield. Mike is most likely right about the shelf he mentioned. I am surprised this...

I have a Taurus tracker in 22 and 22 mag. Its big, accurate and is good trail gun. Those " ribber" grips are gross. I fitted a pair of old S&W grips to it and fitted that nasty ribber thing to my broom handle Mauser.

Clean dry chambers and visual check of the holes in the nipples before loading. Seat the caps on properly fitted nipples. On very rare occasion you might find one that doesn't fire but reliability is generally 99.99% that it will go bang. I agree that caps are scarce and when you do find them...

Thing about reloading shotshells is to match the components to the load you're going for. If using plastic wads be sure to check the length against the hull with the volume of powder used, if too tall the crimp gets messed up, same with being too short. Either way it can get embarrassing when...

I need to try to stuff 60 grns in one of mine. By the way did you correct the arbor on your Walker? It won't take a whole lot of full house loads for it to start self destructing.

Simple reason, Ebay gets upset if you sell a functional gun. Doesn't matter if it's exempt from the feds or not. Same thing with Paypal. Both are pretty anti gun.

Mike, I see you figured out the action stop! I knew you would figure out something! Hey Hawg...phlttttt! I would use one of those emotie things but can't find em on my tablet.

It's a Walker all the way for me. Full house loads under a ball or conical, equal to having 6 rifle loads, close enough, don't care about the weight. It will take down anything this part of the country has to offer.

Ugly, I can picture you stomping through the woods in a red coat infantry uniform with Bessie rigged with the bayonet just looking for that rebel colonial bear and daring him to oppose the King. I might have to join you with the Ferguson. I don't have a bayonet though.

I spoke to my guy this morning, he is somewhat familiar with that conversion. It's extremely labor intensive. Not only does the barrel need to be changed but feed rails need to be widened as well as the magazine box needs to be lengthened. The bolt face has to be opened up too. As far as my...

I recognized the action as a p17 Enfield type. I really don't know much about the 404 Jefferies cartridge. I will contact my buddy today and see if he has any further thoughts. His pricing is very reasonable and his bolt action work has slowed way down on account of not wanting to do AR work. It...

I can talk to my guy about it it may not possible to do on that action, that's why I would go to someone more knowledgeable.

John, I know a fellow here in Tucson that might be able to help your friend. He is a bolt action guy that does rebarrel work. I can get a hold of him next week and talk about the project.

Agreed Ugly, so many little things can pile up to make a rocklock not go bang. Undersized touch hole or wrong location plus maybe poor lock geometry all can add up to phhhtt instead of bang or worse yet just a loud click.

1/16 is .062, try a 1/16 inch drill bit in the hole, if it's loose my guess is yours is around .070.

I used to prime my rocklocks with 4 f until I read about how the Brits used to load the Brown Bess. Bite off the end of a paper caftridge, prime the pan, close the frizzen and dump the powder from the cartridge down the barrel followed by the ball and remains of the cartridge. Point it at the...