The THR Walker Club

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Great history...ditto on the thanks for sharing.



Check out the vid....world champ shooter with Walker....one handed on the big boy gun
 
That was a great and very interesting read
Thank you so much for sharing
Have a good w/e
Lee
 
Ranger 1836 said:
Here is a good read for the history buffs. Gun collecting in the 1930's.

http://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/B024_Serven.pdf
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That’s a fascinating read. I printed it and stuck it in my copy of his book The Collecting of Guns.
Another great old time collector was the late Gaines de Graffenreid of Waco, Texas. The first curator of the Texas Ranger Museum, his collection formed the basis of the museum’s displays.
Here’s an excerpt from Roger Conger’s book Texas Gun Collector:

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IMG_0703.JPG Finally got around to taking a picture of the beast.
Would like to submit for membership
Thanks
 
daboyleroy said:
View attachment 227991 Finally got around to taking a picture of the beast.
Would like to submit for membership
Thanks
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I am just going to post a bit of fun here. No need to take it seriously, sir.

I know you are comparing a .44 with a .44, but the 1851 Navy .44 (probably an older Italian manufacturer like ASM) is just a repro fantasy. You could have at least shown a Squareback TG on the "Navy", and it is a brasser at that! Not playing fair there.

I would have liked to have seen a Second Model Dragoon instead of the 1851 repro.

Nice Walker, sir.

Jim
 
Well it took me days but I finally read this whole thread and joined the board.
I have a Walker in the family, but it belongs to the wife and she won't share it. I am not sure what brand it is, it is not marked. It does have proofs on it and a 4 digit serial number in three or four places. It does say 'Made in Italy'. I have a spare barrel for a Uberti Walker but it doesn't fit hers. The frame is larger than the mating surfaces on the Uberti barrel. With the Uberti barrel on the arbor the cylinder aligns with the bore, but the frame pins do not. I may have to post a pic of it. Update... Appears to be ASM cica 1970.

I am on the lookout for one to make my own but I don't want a new one. I like the look of a worn finish. I am not having any luck finding a used one.
If any of you are looking to replace your old one and want to recoup some of the cost, let me know what you have. I am looking for a Uberti.
 
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Well it took me days but I finally read this whole thread and joined the board.
I have a Walker in the family, but it belongs to the wife and she won't share it. I am not sure what brand it is, it is not marked. It does have proofs on it and a 4 digit serial number in three or four places. It does say 'Made in Italy'. I have a spare barrel for a Uberti Walker but it doesn't fit hers. The frame is larger than the mating surfaces on the Uberti barrel. With the Uberti barrel on the arbor the cylinder aligns with the bore, but the frame pins do not. I may have to post a pic of it.

I am on the lookout for one to make my own but I don't want a new one. I like the look of a worn finish. I am not having any luck finding a used one.
If any of you are looking to replace your old one and want to recoup some of the cost, let me know what you have. I am looking for a Uberti.
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Should be a manufacture's cartouche on it some where, along with the standard proof marks. An internet search will yield a list of the various symbols.

I am anticipating the return of my from GoonsGunWorks any week now. Went with the coil spring refit.
 
Here is my inherited application for membership. My dad bought this around 1970 shortly after we moved to S. TX. He became very interested in Texas History, which led him to his beloved hog leg. Molded many bullets around a fire in the back yard with him, and on weekends we would sometimes drive out to the Rio Grande and shoot it on the banks- don't think you would last long trying that today.View attachment 233735
 
White Walker said:
Ain't it amazing how much fire emits from a nipple? Pinching oversized caps to hold them onto undersized nipples has been known to find its way up under an adjacent pinched cap and into the nipples to ignite another chamber. Pinching will expand the other sides and that's where the fire gets through to set another charge off. That sounds reasonable to me.
Man! Do smokeless loads in a SAA create that much fire? Wow!
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The answer to smokeless loads is yes, especially with Supermags, I have a 357SM Dan Wesson and used to kill mosquitoes off my forearms when shooting it in the evening, and a night shot show my arms enveloped in fire up to my elbows!
 
I recently acquired this Walker and call me crazy but I want to try and resurrect it. However someone decided to go crazy on it and tried to remove all the proof marks so I am having a tough time determining a manufacturer so I can attempt to find parts. Any ideas?
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SamWalker said:
I recently acquired this Walker and call me crazy but I want to try and resurrect it. However someone decided to go crazy on it and tried to remove all the proof marks so I am having a tough time determining a manufacturer so I can attempt to find parts. Any ideas?
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Those pictures make me sad...
--David
 
dmjung said:
Those pictures make me sad...
--David
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It is sad but hopefully when I'm done with it it will just look well used... its has a really low serial which tells me its probably pretty old but the thing that really throws me off is the round cylinder stop hole all the other ones I see are oval.
 
Sam Walker, that's an old Armi San Marco. Based on the thick trigger guard, long trigger, the contour of the barrel lug and the font of the "US 1847" it all matches early ASM. The perfectly round cylinder notches also match early ASM and Palmetto but as far as I know only ASM had all of the above features combined.
ASM made several changes to the Walker over time. I'm not sure if parts are interchangeable between early and later versions of ASM's.
 
LonesomePigeon said:
Sam Walker, that's an old Armi San Marco. Based on the thick trigger guard, long trigger, the contour of the barrel lug and the font of the "US 1847" it all matches early ASM. The perfectly round cylinder notches also match early ASM and Palmetto but as far as I know only ASM had all of the above features combined.
ASM made several changes to the Walker over time. I'm not sure if parts are interchangeable between early and later versions of ASM's.
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Thanks! Thats what I was leaning towards but was unsure. I really only need a screw set and some new alignment pins, hopefully those things stayed the same.
 
do you have a way to measure the width of the barrel wedge wide end and small end? The ASM wedge is larger than the Uberti. by about .060.
 
The following measurements are for the Uberti 1847 barrel wedge.

the thin end is 0.561” wide

The outside end is 0.626” wide

The overall length is 1.3375”

Overall thickness 0.157”
 
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