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1) Armi San Marco .44 Colt Walker Replica Revolver.

2) Indian Manufactured Scottish All Steel Flintlock Pistol in .52" calibre smooth bore.

The Colt Walker is second-hand and was in bits as the previous owner had taken it apart and couldn't get it back together again so it would work!
After a few hours cleaning it up and removing the burrs from some of the components and reassembling it correctly, all I need to get is a new percussion cap nipple and I have what appears to be a good quality and good condition .44 Colt Walker replica which is in good working order.
Looking forward to using it, but it does appear to be a heavy old lump.
Maybe you could let me know what is the best size of ball to use in the .44 Colt walker and where I can purchase them from?
The Scottish pistol has never been fired even though is four years old it remains to be seen how accurate it is with a patched ball.
ASM firearms have a mixed reputation over the years, some were okay and some were dire - here's hoping your Walker is one of the good ones. The date code stamp will tell us when yours was made, BTW if you have a look and tell us - Roman numbers or a two letters...You'll also need an elastic band to hold the loading lever up - it drops on recoil, jamming up the cylinder - a well-known foible. Another well-known foible is the problem of loading it with enough powder to give some degree of compression - in one ASM 3rd Model Dragoon I saw it was impossible to put less than a good stiff 40gr load as the loading lever just did not go far enough into the chamber to give a good compression. An air-gap in the chamber WILL blow your gun up - be warned not to use reduced loads without a lot of filler of some kind - cous-cous or smeolina is fine for that.

Ball for the Walker are usually .451" diameter, and loads are anything up to 55-60gr of FFg - seriously. I shoot fifty in mine, BTW. You'll need six nipples, as they are sold in sets of six. Henry Crank usually has them in stock. Only the Ruger Old Army uses anything except a metric thread - just tell them waht you have and they'll do you fine.

I have no experience of owning the Scottish pistol - but, assuming that it HAS been proofed for use and is not a wall-hanger - some are - you'll have a real problem finding ball to shoot in it without a custom mould. You MIGHT get away with using a .50 calibre ball and slightly thicker patching over 40gr of FFg...trial and error are your friends here.

If and when you get it shooting, don't expect Olympic-style accuracy - IIRC a Scottish pistol of my acquaintance groups like a garden hose set on 'shower'.

Good luck.

tac