Michael Tinker Pearce
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Just finished (except for the front sight) converting an Armi San Marcos Walker reproduction to fire cartridges. The barrel is cut and re-crowned at 3-1/2" but it still weighs 3-1/2 pounds. The gun is shown with a Richard-Mason conversion for size comparison-
Yeah, the Walker is a big gun. Seems like it should have a big cartridge, right? This one is set up to fire .44-50/200. This is a .452 Heel-base bullet loaded into modified .44 Supermag brass. This will hold 50 grains of black powder pretty handily, but I am going to be focused on smokeless loads. If I've done my math right I should be able to safely load a 200gr. bullet up to 1150-1200fps. from the 3-1/2" barrel for around 600 ft/lbs at the muzzle... but I am going to work up to that mighty carefully...
Waiting on brass and dies, but in the meantime I can shoot .44 Colt (HB) from it just fine.
Yeah, the Walker is a big gun. Seems like it should have a big cartridge, right? This one is set up to fire .44-50/200. This is a .452 Heel-base bullet loaded into modified .44 Supermag brass. This will hold 50 grains of black powder pretty handily, but I am going to be focused on smokeless loads. If I've done my math right I should be able to safely load a 200gr. bullet up to 1150-1200fps. from the 3-1/2" barrel for around 600 ft/lbs at the muzzle... but I am going to work up to that mighty carefully...
Waiting on brass and dies, but in the meantime I can shoot .44 Colt (HB) from it just fine.
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