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jaxenro:
Got my Walker back. Now has an action stop, bolt block, coil springs in place of the flat ones, 3 pound trigger pull, a cap post (to keep spent caps from gumming up the action), the arbor length fixed, and a 0025" barrel/cylinder gap clearance. Timing is spot on and it is safe to dry fire. The trigger pull is smooth and even and with the extra weight from the barrel and cylinder liners (not that the Walker is a lightweight to begin with) recoil is about non existent even with over sized loads. It is about as close to a magnum 36 black powder as you can get. Barrel and cylinder are optimized to take a .380 round ball

FilipT:
Does it suffer from problem original Walker used to have? A ramrod getting into the chamber because of recoil.

jaxenro:
No you can "tweak" the ramrod spring to take care of that plus it is only a 36 caliber and weighs about 5 pounds so recoil isn't bad. Yes it holds a boatload of powder but a percentage of it comes shooting out the end of that 9" barrel

Hawkdancer:
Jax,
If you are blowing unburnt powder out the muzzle, you are overloaded.  I would cut the charge back a bit, as the powder that doesn't burn in the cylinder/barrel is wasted.  I bet that puppy makes a huge flame in the dark, though >:D :)!  Fun at a candle shoot!  With the weight of a Walker, it probably feels like a .22 even with the heavy charge.  Have fun!
Hawkdancer

mullet:
Yea, like Hawkdancer said, cut it back or load part of it with Grits. Cool looking pistol.

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