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Been doing some thinking on wither or not to open the chambers on my Walker. Considering the profile of the existing chambers I'm concluding they are reamed for the heeled bullets that were often used in them historically. With that in mind I'm thinking the thing to do is to either buy the Eras Gone copy or cut a new design with a heeled base and blunt meplat with one grease groove and about 225-250 grains of weight. I've picked up some undersized molds over the years with bullet making ideas in mind as all that needs done is lathe centering and boring out the design ideas one has drawn up. Me thinks this a good place to put some of them small bullet molds to use. I've made a few molds from scratch and it's quite a project milling and fitting the handle mortice, making and fitting a sprue plate ,cutting the vent lines in the face and finally boring the cavity correctly figuring for alloy shrinkage when cooled.
The gun seems to shoot balls very well as is and has been showing some signs of good accuracy using the 210 grain ACP bullet I have run a preliminary test with. I'm thinking it will be a wiser choice to leave the chambers alone for now until exhausting more projectile trial choices. Interesting project this Walker.
The gun seems to shoot balls very well as is and has been showing some signs of good accuracy using the 210 grain ACP bullet I have run a preliminary test with. I'm thinking it will be a wiser choice to leave the chambers alone for now until exhausting more projectile trial choices. Interesting project this Walker.
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