The THR Walker Club

[scrat]

The holster pictured was made by bbg its really nice fits really good.

 

[buckeyed]

Allready have the matching cross draw holster for the rig

 

[Cowboy2]

Beerme, there is one somewhere about bending the spring/catch a little (rather than filing it), but I don't have that one bookmarked.

 

[Beerme]

thanks cowboy
and scrat thats exactly what i wanted to know
now its either
std finish
or charcoal
i know charcoal will wear off eventually and ill have to treat her really good but damn is it purrrrtty

 

[buckeyed]

New rig

Just got my Rig from BBG lastnight figured I would post a pic or 2 sorry about the pics it is the best I can do with my phone

 

[scrat]

very cool

 

[don3]

Hi all, great looking guns, here is my walker,
BEFORE:

and AFTER:

Keep posting, really like your pictures.

Don

 

[SixShootinSam]

Nice Don, really like the conversion. I'm drooling. Did you cut the port hole yourself?

 

[don3]

Sam, I had the recoil shield cut and the conversion done at this gun smith in Texas. I like there work and will have more done. Read about them in "Guns of the old west" magazine.
http://www.ravensroostcustom.com/

 

[scrat]

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Scrat (Scott) 2 Gentleman of the Charcoal 3 Dixie Texian 4 Yankee John
5 Mykeal 6 [email protected] 7 Mukluk 8 BigBadGun 9 Mec 10Fineredmist
11HILDO 12Shanghai McCoy 13Tallship 14 A.WALKER 15 StrawHat
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Welcome aboard don3

 

[scrat]

Guns of the old west is an outstanding magazine. Don they did a very good job

 

[Opoche]

Sweet a WALKER club!!!
Love mine. Mine just needs a little more exercise, weather hasn't permitted me to go shooting lately.

 

[Beerme]

malarky
tell that to the russians

 

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Member List
Scrat (Scott) 2 Gentleman of the Charcoal 3 Dixie Texian 4 Yankee John
5 Mykeal 6 [email protected] 7 Mukluk 8 BigBadGun 9 Mec 10Fineredmist
11HILDO 12Shanghai McCoy 13Tallship 14 A.WALKER 15 StrawHat
16 Mustanger1 17 Phantom Captain 18 Pulp19 Snaggletooth 20 RugerBob
21 J.T.Gerrity 22 BDFT 23 Peter M Eick 24 JCT 25 Old Wornout Soldier
26 Brett Dixon 27. Razorback 1010 28. Rebel Dave 29. sundance44s
30. Oddman 31. Xterminator 32. TexasRifleman 33. Gopguy 34. Elbert P Suggins
35. Old Hunter 36. Blacksmoke 37. ApacheJack 38. K.A.T 39. Fedaircop
40. Hooey 41. .50cal 42. Afy 43. Shung 44. Kevc 45. PRM 46. Madcratebuilder
47. Clermont 48. Double Deuce 1 49. Iamsniper1 50. AdmiralB 51. icy
52. SMOKIN GUN 53. QUICKDRAW Mc.Graw 54. SE olka.shooter 55. Jack Steele
56. Steven Youngblood 57. The Wall 58. Shawn Grear 59. Messerist 60. AK 47Ghost
61. Molasses 62. TMC4232 63. .44 Walker 64 Bugslayer 65 sltm1 66. SixShootinSam
67. NobleSniper 68 Gclefton 69. AZ_Rebel 70. Dmjung 71. Brotherlloyd 72. Walker944
73. Fingers McGee 74. Ginormous 75. Kiwiwalker 76. Ratdog68 77. shootmeinthehead
78. marlin_444 79. AussieTH 80. b55baron 81. Dbarrym 82. Oyeboten
83. Mat, Not Doormat 84. Das Jaeger 85. Electric Factory 86. Higene 87 Fivestrings
88. Big guy 49 89. JamesKelly 90. eastbank 91. Buddy 92. Kwetu 93. Husker
94. Two Gun Pete 95. Rifle 96. missuramoss
97. theotherwaldo 98. buckeyed 99. armyof1 100. TomADC 101. TheBigAr2003 102 Texas Moon 103. Dolk 104. don3 105. Opoche

 

[missuramoss]

Was thinkin of you guys.....

today as I shot my WALKER....Had a really ****ty week at work, one of them weeks where if it's gonna go wrong, it does. Come this mornin, loaded evrything up, and went to my range, which is OUR range at work (Ironic, I know) and proceeded to load up some 55 gr. of Goex 2FF, .454 Hornady RB, corn meal filler, #10 Remmie caps, topped with butter...What happened next was, that week of crap work turned into a messrimizing day of total orgasmic (ok, orgasmic is a little steep), fullfilling day of shooting pleasure...I've had a few grapefruit and vodka's while cleaning the one and only...and just wanted yall to know...I hope someone else here was out ridding the woes of the week away.....shooting the big W...!!

 

[messerist]

missuramoss, I think "orgasmic" hits it right on the head. Ecstasy, unadulterated pure joy! I wish I was more of a wordsmith because I betcha there's a lot more pretty words to describe shooting a WALKER

 

[Steven Youngblood]

Don3,
How much was the total conversion and what kind of loads are you shooting?
how do they compair to 60 gr. charge?
It looks great.

 

[don3]

I have not shoot it yet, plan to use a load of 6 grs. trail boss and a 255 gr. bullet. The cost was $422.00 for conversion installed, grinding of recoil shield and return postage. Of course I can still use the cap and ball cylinder if I want and also black powder cartridge, 35 gr. fff and 255 gr. bullet.

Hope this helps, Don

 

[Steven Youngblood]

yep, thanks.

 

[ClemBert]

Hey don3, nice job!

Forgive my ignorance but I'm curious if it is possible to get that Walker to shoot 454 Casull cartridges with BP. Specifically, the downside of a 45 Colt conversion for a Walker is you reduce the max load from 60 grains to 40 grains of BP. Is it possible to get a 454 Casull cartridge with say 50 or more grains of BP to shoot out of that puppy. In addition to the chamber issue with the longer brass there is the 0.002 extra diameter of the .454 versus the .452.

Never mind that last point just realized that 454 Casull uses a .452 diameter bullet.

 

[don3]

I don't know if the 454 will work and don't have one to try, I would guess they will fit as the cylinder is boared through without step or taper. Not sure how much presure it will have.

 

[scrat]

Clembert Yes and no. The R&D cylinder has a stop to only accept 45 colt. So you would have to hone down that stop to fit a longer cartridge. I am sure you could get it out to a 454 or a 460 easily. just you would have to make sure your shooting at a Walker load or below not over. So for leaglity thats why its made to only accept a 45 colt

 

[Clermont]

I have a Colt Blackpowder Arms Signature Series catalog. The pictures are of the available pages of Signature Series Walkers and related accessories. I can post pictures of other Signature Series models if requested to.

 

[Clermont]

An unfired Colt Signature Series Walker sold for $605.00 on GunBroker with only four bids that began at $25.00.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=160206694

 

[ClemBert]

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Clembert Yes and no. The R&D cylinder has a stop to only accept 45 colt. So you would have to hone down that stop to fit a longer cartridge. I am sure you could get it out to a 454 or a 460 easily. just you would have to make sure your shooting at a Walker load or below not over. So for leaglity thats why its made to only accept a 45 colt

scrat, good pointer to the 460 S&W Magnum. I did some quick math that shows that the 454 Casull brass wouldn't buy you much. If a 45 Colt can hold 40 grains of GOEX then a 454 can only hold 43 grains. Not really exciting for a Walker. However, the 460 S&W Magnum brass would hold 56 grains of GOEX. Now we are talkin'!!!! It's not quite the max 60 grain Walker load but it definitely gets you to the sweet spot of the Walker plus a little room to spare. Sounds like a fun project if someday I have the extra funds to have a Walker modified like don3. I wonder what differences there might be between the pressure of a 60 grain cap-n-ball load versus a 460 with 56 grains of GOEX and a .252 Lead RNFP.

don3

I don't know if the 454 will work and don't have one to try, I would guess they will fit as the cylinder is boared through without step or taper. Not sure how much presure it will have.

don3, curious to know if that conversion cylinder has the length to hold a 460 S&W Magnum BP cartridge. That cylinder wouldn't happen to hold hold a cartridge of 2.3 inches in length would it? (as measured from the base of the cartridge to the nose of the bullet)