My Uberti Walker has normal bolt stops. I can only speculate that's a liberty taken by Uberti. Though I would also speculate is that is the reason Sam Colt changed them for later gun models is that they didn't work all that well.
I am curious if I am missing something. That seems to say normal aka rectangular and not Oval per a Liberty taken by Uberti.
The 2023 47 Walker I have has what I would call an Oval Bolt Stop. Now its an elongated Oval but its not a rectangle for sure. The picture of the original seems to match but not enough definition to see if its elongated and different in a Uberti 47 Walker.
The Walker and 1st Dragoon, along with a few others, have oval bolt stops with no lead. Does anyone with these find them not lock up properly from time to time? I couldn’t imagine being in a situation and have a situation where my pistol doesn’t fire!
Its a mistake to compare a modern gun reliability with metallic cartridges to what they had back then. I suspect it was common to have a problem of one sort or another with a pistol or a rifle not firing.
One area I wonder about is the quality and quality control of the original caps.
Then you have powder quality and control, size of grains with no standards as well as deterioration over time or even in distribution (from the mfg to the solider or gun owner)
47 Walkers blew up with some regularity. Now its a given that a claim for a blown gun gets you another one and slip the Clerk a few bucks and you don't have to turn in the wrecked one, come up with a story I had to throw it away to grab my other gun and .......... So the reason to carry two revolvers would also have been if one failed.
Some years back I read a very well written book on the war between the Native Americans and the (ahem) Settlers. They had one scout who realized that trying to re-load a rifle when being chased was badly needed but also meant you had to stop running.
Well that was not going to work out well, so he began running and learning how to reload while doing so. Not many could or would spend time working it out. But it was a way to overcome the one shot limitation.
No question there was a lot you could do to improve your odds of it working but none of it would be as given as a modern cartridge in reliability area.
And that was not a given when metallic came out, all sorts of quality issues ensued. More than one WWI fighter pilot loaded his own ammo belts inspected each cartridge to be sure at least on the surface it was not visible damaged.
