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Shot some black powder this Saturday
Finally got to the range last weekend, after the clean up from the firestorms here in the San Diego area. The gun is a Walker 44 cal and was a blast to shoot. The bang was louder than I expected and the smoke was pretty heavy. It took about three days for the sulfur smell to go away!!
  
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11-19-2007, 06:19 PM
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"Smokeless powder is a passing fad."
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That 44 Colt Walker holds 60 Grains of Black Powder. Making it the most powerfull handgun in the world till the advent of the S&W 44 MAG.
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Yeah, but it still shoots a puny little round ball of only about 140 grains. The .45 Colt, in its original loading of 40 grains of FFG under a 250 grain bullet beats it hands down in real killing power.
Walkers are pretty darn cool guns, though. The ultimate development of the "horse pistol"; meant to be carried on the saddle, in pommel holsters. Too damn big to carry around otherwise. Between a pair of Walkers, a carbine, and his sabre, the mounted soldier could do some real damage in a cavalry charge. It's the gun that saved Colt from oblivion as well. The Paterson was dead by then and Sam had no other prospects until the "other Sam" came to him with his requirements for a repeating horse pistol. The rest, as they say, is history.
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