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Old 12-17-2010, 05:10 PM
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Not what you want to hear...but if you use enough of them, you'll eventually wear out the bore. And the forcing cone, and the hammer and trigger. And the frame, hand, and cylinder. If you keep it up, you'll eventually wear the entire gun out. Well, if you live long enough and your ammo funds hold out. Ain't nothin' free in this world. Every projectile you send down range does an incremental amount of "damage" to the entire gun. And depending on pressure levels, its kind of significant. N frames are particularly susceptible to the damage. A good K frame, like a M10 shooting 158 grain or 148 wadcutters has a life expectancy of maybe 100,000 round, maybe 200,000. I'd guess a 44 Maggie has a much shorter one. If you fire 75,000 to 100,000 rounds, you'll have damaged the gun.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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