don't mean to bounce all over the map but its my poor brains fault...
I have a nice pieta brass frame 58 remmy revolver. it is nice and smooth and pretty accurate in my old hands.
question I have is this ... the cylinder holds easily 40 grains of powder under a ball and is pretty stout in firing... so I have always wondered why there is the warning on the cartridge conversion to 45 colt that "NO BRASS FRAME REVOLVER" warning. I also load 40 grains in my colt revolver and also my ruger vaquero and they are stout as well but the thing that makes me wonder is the fact that I CAN load 40 grains in my remmy cylinder and so if the BRASS frame withstands this recoil/psi thrust then why not the conversion except for the option of using higher power smokeless loads? ...[which is definitely not the sound thinking with these old style revolvers]... I am tempted to try it as bp is bp and I don't see the diff between a 40 grain load behind a ball in a case ... and the same 40 grain charge behind the same ball in my brass framed remmy... which has a steel cylinder.
thoughts???
what gives here?