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washbuster
09-28-2015, 01:12 AM
Got a new Stainless walker today .Made in 1996 BH date code .I believe it was never fired.Included are pics149909149910
Omnivore
09-28-2015, 12:23 PM
That's really stainless steel as opposed to a kit gun of regular steel finished in the white?

pro tip; never, ever use a flash when photographing a gun like that. You may hate me now but you'll love the advice later. Use more diffuse light. Similarly; never photograph a gun in direct sunlight. Just turn off the bloody flash, and you'll instantly get better results.
johnson1942
09-28-2015, 06:52 PM
what a find, i would ruin it by getting a 45 long colt cylinder with a loading gate for it and shoot it that way. now you gave me the fever for one like that again.
Beagle333
09-28-2015, 07:07 PM
That's cool!!! I didn't even know they made em. I know that Dixie sells a kit that is in the white, but I have never seen a SS one.
I want!!!!
Hellgate
09-28-2015, 10:20 PM
If you put a magnet to the steel and it doesn't attract then it is stainless. If it attracts it could be either stainless or polished steel.
washbuster
09-28-2015, 10:31 PM
Its real Stainless believe me I know the difference.
big bore 99
09-28-2015, 10:41 PM
400 series stainless is somewhat magnetic and it can be heat treated. I would think that this is made of it. 300 series is not magnetic and dead soft and not suitable for this piece.
big bore 99
09-28-2015, 10:43 PM
I believe it would hold 60 grains of 2f. A real cannon even by todays standards.
snglstack
09-29-2015, 02:15 AM
60gr FFg is my target load in a .50 Hawken. IIRC 40 gr is more or less standard in a Walker. I've been wrong before but I was only mistaken. A dear friend of mine had one forty years ago. He died young of leukemia at 28, and every time I see a Walker it makes me think of ol' Randy. Or rather, young Randy. Another friend was doing his master's project in film making and got together a whole bunch of us who had guns and horses to be in his documentary of Jouguin Murietta. I can still see (literally) Randy running down the hill whooping and firing during the massacre scene. I carried a Hawken and a .36 Navy; Jouquin had a Pennsylvania-style rifle; Three-Finger Jack was killed with a DGW boot pistol that Sergei made from a kit; and Ol' Three-Finger himself was armed with a Ruger Blackhawk...he was quite the progressive for his day.