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Wow! I like Remingtons, but that Walker is just beautiful.

Wow! I doubt if you paid too much - those revolvers are really nice and worth a bunch. If you tell us the serial number of the Remington we can probably tell what month and year it was made.

Those drums on track of the wolf have 1/4 - 28 threads for the nipple, but not for the male thread that screws into the barrel. That would be pretty small, they are usually 5/16 or bigger thread. Ibothell - are you sure the threads in the barrel are actually 1/4 - 28?

Some of them had just a metal clip on the side that hooked into your belt.

It looks like the original trigger guard broke and someone made a copper replacement. If the bore is good, maybe a replacement stock could be made and keep the old one for collector value. Are there any sights on it?

This thread inspired me to go out in the shop on a crummy winter day and start making something! I found a piece of A2 tool steel 50mm thick and rough sawed out the shape of the hammer for this underhammer rifle. I have that book too, and read the article. I don't know if I would care to see...

You need a better brand of beer though!

Pukka - I think Track of the Wolf means a minimum order of 8 inches, not 8 liners. It's sold by the inch, minimum of 8. It's $8 per inch so the liner would cost you around $64. Hopefully the bore diameter would be the same as your cylinder diameter or slightly smaller. If the twist rate was the...

That pistol has about the simplest mechanism there could be and still function! I don't know if it would work good for a rifle where you want to take careful aim and let off the shot without any movement of the gun. The underhammer rifle is real nice - I like those too. That one doesn't have the...

My Dad told me when him and his brothers (4) and the other kids used to play cowboys and indians. He said "we didn't have any toy guns - we used real ones". Then he smiled and said "and they were loaded". They would shoot into the dirt or at a tree. This was in the 1920's - life was different...

On mine, there is a fancy script G.U. on the bottom flat of the barrel, hidden by the loading lever.

Are you sure they were made by Pietta? I think the Navy Arms stuff was made by Uberti, I know my early 60's Navy Arms Rem is a Uberti.

Pecatonica River Long Rifle Supply shows two types for sale - I don't know if they're actually in stock.

Maybe everyone already knows this, but the distance it's held from the eye is critical. I think that's why there is a string or little chain on them, to put around your neck or hold with your teeth. The distance from your eye is the "calibration".

Yesterday morning I took a little piece of angle iron, sanded all the scale and stuff from one flat so it was shiny steel. Rubbed bacon grease on part of it and left the other part bare steel. Now it sat outside for about 24 hours in damp cool weather. I cleaned the bacon grease off just now...

I have some old bacon grease in the fridge, and the weather outside is damp. I'm going to go out in the shop and take a piece of steel, clean all the oil off it and rub a bunch of bacon grease on it to see how bad it rusts.

I don't know if Davy Crockett could bark squirrels, but he could grin a **** out of a tree. That way you don't use up any powder.

Bullshot - That is the best response I have ever read on this site!

The meteorite is interesting to me, that goofy "gun" isn't.

I got to handle one once, about the size of a baseball. It was extremely heavy for it's size.