Walker Wins Pistol Competition

[Dave Rosenthal]

Had the Uberti Walker out at the local Club's BP Match yesterday. Shot my highest pistol score ever...a 95 x 100 at 25 yards. Just aimed about 6 inches low at 25 yards and all 10 rounds hit the black. Used my usual combo of 50 grains of 3Fg Goex, a ox-yoke wonder-wad and a .454 Hornady RB.

Also one less cup of regular coffee :hmm: .

Scores were really tight, and the single shot pistols were the closest with a 93 and a 91 I think. I'll probably never top that 95! In the middle of the relay I stopped to help a newbie shoot his 1858 Remmy NMA...guess it pays benefits to be nice on the firing line after all .

Dave

 

[Rebel]

Congrats on the win. Didn't realize them Walkers were that accurate.

 

[piteruu]

One hand? :wink:. My Uberti Walker is very accurate too. My best score at 25 meters is 92 (two hands; the ten's ring is 2,5"). My load is 24 grains 3fg, corn meal and .454 ball.

 

[mec]

An overall on the NRA short course of 95 would put you in the Master Class.

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

The Club allows a two-handed hold, so we all use it. Several months ago, with one arm, I hit a torso-sized gong at 135 yards with the same gun and charge. Uberti does indeed make a fine gun!

Dave

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

The League that we shot at yesterday decided to do the NRA course / competition that you spoke of. We know we need to use only one hand, and we will be practicing for that soon. I understand that we need B-19 regulation targets from a manufacturer that pays the NRA license fee. Do you know of any as our regular supplier is not NRA certified??

Thanks so much!

Dave

 

[jeepwj992002]

Congratulations on a fine score with your horse pistol! :bow:

 

[jeepwj992002]

Now you know the reason I am lookin for a walker Rebel. :wink:

 

[arquebus]

I recently bought some B-19 & B-17 (metric) centers from[url] Pistoleer.com[/url]. Paid $8.63/100 plus s&h. I paste a full target to a backer board & then just use centers, if any shots fall outside of the center I just put a pastey over it.

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Thanks for the lead--I'll try to look them up tomorrow!

Dave

 

[Jac Spring]

Congrats on the win! I haven't shot mine enough yet to see how good it can do but it seems to shoot pretty darned good - I was shooting at 40 and 50 meters with different loads and it did its part if I did mine - shooting about 6" high at that distance.

 

[Zonie]

My old CVA Walker is one of the few C&B guns I have that shoots to center at 20 yards.
I guess you guys must be a lot stronger than I am though. There is no way I could target shoot it using only one hand.
zonie

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Yeah, I know what you mean about aiming low...I have to aim mine about 6.5 inches low to hit the 10-X ring at 25 yards.

It's pretty much dead-on at 65-75 yards. For the 135 yard gong I just aimed at the top of the torso-sized gong and I guess the round dropped-in a little to make the GONG. Afterwards I put the Walker away cause I didn't want to push my luck :surrender: .

Hope you have fun shooting yours! The BP league members don't like to stand next to me when that 50 grain charge ignites :shocked2: .

The holes in the paper look like they were cut by a huge wad-cutter style bullet .

All the best!

Dave

 

[faw3]

Good shooting , I've got or had one of every type Colt /Rem perc and NOTHING can beat a good Walker. Fred :thumbsup: (ask my lil brotheer and his H+K's 9's :rotf: )

 

[colmoultrie]

:grin: No Wonder! The Walker is such a big gun that the barrel is almost touching the target! As long as you can hold it up, slight errors in aiming don't make much difference, since the ball has such a short distance to travel! :grin: :grin:
:v

 

[faw3]

It is kind of funny the sights are all the same kind on Colts from back then but out of 5 Colts same maker both Walkers shot just great it may be the barrel lenght, oh and when I go shoot a bunch from it a few hours worth I pull the ram rod part off makes a one hand easy. Fred :hatsoff: