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Old 02-25-2012, 02:21 AM
Oyeboteb Oyeboteb is offline
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Too...the Bullets normally associated with present day .45 Colt, or, .45 ACP ( especially when they are Hardball ) tend to be a little too small for the Barrel Bores of the .455 S&W or Colt Revolvers.

So, if one has such an old 'Conversion' and wishes to take it seriously, it is good to measure the inside diameter of the Cylinder Bores, and, of the Barrel, to decide what diameter Bullets to be loading into one's Cartridges for it.

Mine seem to like .454 pure Lead Bullets...while, recovered .452 Hardball show barely any whisps of Rifeling impressions, so, the usual .45 ACP fare is too small for mine...and, this even hold true often enough for the .45 ACP Pistols as such - their Bores were often enough too large from the get-go for the kind of Bullets which would be normally fired in them.

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