"The only complaint I have about the walkers is the loading lever tends to come unstuck upon firing"
(For those folks who don't own a Walker, the loading lever is held in place by a little spring that hangs down from the bottom of the barrel. This spring slips into a notch in the top of the loading lever to hold it in place.
Almost every time you fire the big gun, the loading lever slips off of the spring and drops down, running the loading ram into the nearest cylinder chamber mouth. This of course tends to lock up the cylinder making cocking impossible.)
Ain't it great? We Walker owners get to re-enact the history of the gun, just like the people who used it when it was new.
If you think that dam loading lever spring is bad, just think about what you would have thought when you really needed the gun to function right with the Indians charging you.
Folks should notice that one of the first things redesigned when they made the Colt Whitneyville Hartford Dragoon was the loading lever latch. The 1st and 2nd model Dragoon also changed the latch design.