OT: Colt Walker signature series '1816......
 

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Tacfoley,

In the meanwhile why not get a barrel wedge from Dixie Gun Works? (www.dixiegunworks.com), their catalog lists one for $10. KFS

Tacfoley, Sorry to hear about your bad experience with what was once a proud and quality conscious American Co. Unfortunately this has happened to many American companies. I tried to order a gun safe from some idiots in Kalifornia and they just couldn't get the correspondence correct so I figured they wouldn't get the safe right either. I hope you get a new part and if not that, your old part back. Maybe a craftsman in the UK could hack you one out of steel. I have made a trigger sear lever for a Luger and it works! Good Luck! Jerry Burney

Colt black powder has a web site, I sent them a notice that a negative message had been posted reference their pathetic customer service. (hint?)

RK

Roadkill,

I'm too dumb to find a website, so make it easy for me and post the URL. Please?

From what I see, they have no email address, or contact url, or service dept.

http://www.coltblackpowder.com/frameset_home.html

rk

Terry, please be leary of heavy loads with pyrodex. My impression from limited use is it does not have the most stable of burning characteristics when it is crushed by tight ramming, which the revolver lever does. Also, I thought the Walker Colt took 70 grains of powder. Were you using the slug instead of the round ball?

I know you are completely capable, but sometimes proximity is an asset. If I can help please let me know.

RK

I also sent a CS related e-mail to Colt Blackpowder Firearms. I hope it rattled their cage. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

"There has been a very negative customer service related remark made toward your corporation in the www.lugerforum.com posting site. It regards a signature Colt Walker 1816 Model sent to you for repair. Many firearms’ purchasers visit this site. It would probably be in your best interest to correct this issue."

Terry, I am a member of the US National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association and get to the National shooting meets semi regularly. My email is hahlers@fuse.net. Drop me a line with your email and I will give you the cntacts for some good US dealers. I would also be happy to sent you some copies of the NMLRA's magazine.

regards, Heinz

Tacfoley,

Just did a good deed and sent an urgent email to info@coltblackpowder.com . Boy, did I tell them! I never could find an email address for the customer service dept. or such. You reckon that the info dept. is worth messing with?

Clot Blackpowder Firearms? LOL! And Cambridgeshire sounds like a place where Robin Hood would bloody well come thundering out of with the Sheriff’s men storming after him. Tally ho!

Dialog from a Robin Hood movie I saw recently at the first sight of Friar Tuck:

Robin Hood: Don’t worry he’s with us.
Little John: Are you sure?
Robin Hood” Yeah, he’s one of us.
Little John: He looks more like three of us.

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Terry, putting a plain brown envelope in the mail.

regards, heinz

Terry:

Here on this side of the Pond, they had a special on the History Channel concerning the reality and legend of the historical figure Robin Hood. They routinely pick notable scoundrels like him, William Wallace, Billy the Kid (real name Henry McCarty) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I watched this program with great interest, and you are right, there are no real historical records of a “Robin of Loxley” (not sure on spelling there) or “Robin Hood” in the 12th and 13th century English criminal records. But there are a few names that come close, but I don’t recall them offhand. And if I remember right, there are about three places in England that claim to have Robin’s grave. A lot of this stem from what I understand to be bitter disputes of current and medieval names, as well as tourist possibilities. (Hell, if I ever went to England I’d want to see it too.) I bloody well want to see the Imperial War Museum also and the bleedin’ museum there that I hear has the best preserved WW2 Tiger and Royal Tiger tanks anywhere. Aye mate, that and the bloody medieval castes that I hear are all abouts in jolly old England. Right after bleedin’ teatime of course, and…. argh, ye got me talkin’ and typin’ like a bloody Englishman…! LOL. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Heydrich, don't forget the only functioning WWII air base and associated -monster- air museum at Duxford!

--Dwight

Just visited the B29 and a B24 this weekend. Sad to say, political correctness has caught up with the Confederate Air Force. It is now known as the Commemerative Air Force. I've tossed my crewmember's ribbon. (Used to crew on the only Nightingale air ambulance in the Confeder.., oops! Commemerative Air Force.)