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Old January 23, 2010, 05:27 AM   #8
Bud Helms
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You won't have a problem. A friend that teachs a "gun" class use 44 mag and 45 Colt Ruger Vaqueros in a portion of his class. He switches the cylinders and fires 45s in the 44 gun and 44s in the 45. 44s in the 45 gun are quite inaccurate. The 45s out of the 44 are very accurate, recoil is a little stiff.


"He switches the cylinders and fires 45s in the 44 gun and 44s in the 45."

Holy Smoke!

What FL-Flinter said! Especially this part:
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Most .45's take 0.452" diameter projectiles, .45colt (Long Colt) can take either 0.452" or 0.454" diameter projectiles depending on the rifling groove depth. When you try squeezing a 0.452" or 0.454" bullet through the 0.429" groove diameter of the .44mag bore, you're spiking pressures through the roof! This is extremely dangerous and just because someone doing something utterly stupid has gotten lucky does not make it safe!
Although I would replace "utterly stupid" with "utterly ignorant".

Why does he do that, Noz?
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