Not trying to hijack, but..
Have guys fire formed .44 Mag cases to .45 Colt?
I have never done it myself but I know some people who do. Those cases look weird but they seem to work. I have always wondered WHY? What is the idea in that?
Not trying to hijack, but..
Have guys fire formed .44 Mag cases to .45 Colt?
I have never done it myself but I know some people who do. Those cases look weird but they seem to work. I have always wondered WHY? What is the idea in that?
Here in Missourri, 44 mag cases are easy to find...at varying prices for new or once fired. 45 Colt isn't very easy to find..$25 a hundred for new STARLINE. Factory 45 Colt ammo is hard to find also.
Rim outside diameter is pretty close. Obviously 45 body is larger. Improvise to keep shooting.
EDK: Of course. That is the obvious answer. For some reason I thought it had something to do with extra-heavy .45 Colt loads..
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Looking for a Hensly &Gibbs #258 any thing from a two cavity to a 10cavityI found a new one from a member here
I had a quick play the other day, the chamber is not as bad as I first thought.
I ran some of my loads over the chrony, almost 700fps with a 200gn boolit, powder in the face.
Then I tried some that I'd stuffed the boolits right down near flush with the top of the case to get the pressure up.
1000fps, no blow by, clean cases.
I did the rest I had loaded and added some tape around the bottom to hopefully centre them.
200gr boolits are really light for caliber. From the comments if it was mine I think I would send it down the road and look to another rifle that wasn't so out of spec and problematic. Seems like a waste of perfectly good brain cells to have to deal with a crappily made rifle.
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