How Powerful is a Colt Walker Revolver

Got to ask. How many deer have you befriended? Its been my experience that they don't like hanging out around gun ranges. So they must be very fond of you personally. Love your video's.

He said, CAP'N BAUS!
https://youtube.com/shorts/dgiuc8xIMPk?si=irYHutfJlti41xdj

"If you consider that, just maybe, I have a modicum of competence in this subject…" >XD

I wish I could get real black powder around where I live, because I can't find it I've procured all the ingredients to make the stuff myself but haven't bought a tumbler yet. Been using pyrodex for now, but can't wait to try the authentic stuff!

Very Interesting, thanks for sharing.
I purchased my Italian replica Walker in fall of 77. Along with a SS Ruger Old Army.
My Walker used a
.436 ball. Never tried squeezing a
.457 in to it.
I regularly threw full loads with the .436 ball, using either BP or Pyrodex which I prefer.
Some years later an electrician on the job wearing a vest covered with a load of black powder patches, in our conversation asks, "Did you ever wonder why there aren't very many original Walkers still around like so many other guns?"
Told him, "I never thought about it. Why, where'd they go too?"
It seems that many of them disintegrated from overloading.

I got back to the house and upon close examination found that I could slide the corner of a matchbook cover between the two dowel pins and the frame and barrel.
I discovered that the cylinder shaft threads were deformed and stretched. Tightening the shaft caused the set screw to misalign.
Sometime later a friend took it and somehow got everything tightened back together but returned the piece with specific instructions Not Too Fire It again.
So if you're shooting a Walker, Don't load to capacity.
Oh well it was fun while it lasted…
👍🇺🇸♥️

Ya got me at inflatable GF! I wonder if you can inflate some areas more than others. Im talking about Ego people!

I bought my Uberti Walker in 1981 when was 16. I love it when a 'gun expert' tells me it has 'no rear sight'. Well they may be close, but no cookie. I have also learn that the original Colt Walker had cylinder-stop design flaw issues, among others, which Colt corrected, as well as the others, with the 1st Model Dragoon. Uberti copied the Colt Walker so well, mine seems to have all the same flaws as the original, lol!
Paul, I agree 100% with you final opinion on shooting Black Powder. I want the whole messy experience, if I have any at all. I have despise Pyrodex since its inception, for reasons you mentioned, and others. I equate black powder substitutes with modern "electronically assisted" manual transmissions. Neither one is the raw, coarse, unrefined experience I grew up with, nor care for, in the least. Cheers!

Great watch. Thank you Paul.

This entire test is invalid. You used ten more grains per shot with your "Colt". I would retest this with equal shot loads.

Why didn't he use the conical bullets that thevWalker was designed to shoot? They were quite a bit heavier than the round balls.

Great video as always Paul. I can only imagine the thrill of seeing Star Wars on the big screen back in 77

Hold up! Why the deer so chill? Lol

And a deer walks across the range.😂😂😂

So, same bullet 30 grains FFF from 7.5 inch barrel vs 50 grains FFF from 9 inch barrel. No surprise the results are passing similar to a comparison of two centerfire revolvers one shooting .44 special vs one loaded with .44 magnum.

Hmmm… 66% more powder and a 21% longer barrel yields nearly twice the power. Whooda thunk it? 😮

It all depends on speed and Velocity something gun grabbers are to stupid to understand. a baseball and a pebble traveling at the appropriate speed can do more damage than a bullet. the only reason there not regulated is the machines necessary to achieve that speed would be Large Expensive and Cumbersome. since neither the pebble or the baseball has a built in propellant. meaning the device shooting them must provide the Necessary Energy. ****************************************************************** the damage any object can do is based on mass and Velocity. or for Gun Control activists to stupid to understand basic physics. how large the object is and how fast it’s traveling. For example a 1911 and a Rifle chambered in 45 ACP. both use the same Cartridge however the damage the bullet can do is based on which Firearm can shoot said cartridge the Fastest. it’s similar to the analogy of the baseball and the pebble. while they don’t have a Machine to use small rocks as ammunition. Automatic baseball pitchers have existed for a long time. so why aren’t they banned or heavily regulated. it’s because if someone wanted to use such a Device to kill or cripple someone. they would have to transport and move a large heavy Device as well as have a Sufficient amount of equally heavy Ammunition in the form of baseballs. the police or Government would have no problem stopping an attack like that long before it could be carried out. but we can’t ignore the Damage said Machine could do despite its limitations. compare that to a Firearm even if it was banned nationwide. there’s Millions already in Circulation and Criminals won’t Turn them in. meaning you end up in a world Similar to a Video game. where the only people who have guns are the Cops and the Criminals who never turned them in. the Corrupt Biden Administration knows this but still pushes for Disarming the people who rarely commit the Crimes. there accused of sometimes a greedy Housewife will shoot her husband for Life Insurance and then there’s the rare Mass shooting likely allowed to happen. so corrupt Politicians and Billionaires can push for more gun control. but outside of that the majority of deaths are Suicides or Murders committed by gang members or other criminals. Released due to Democrat soft on crime policies.