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Old 01-26-2017, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Eddie Southgate View Post
You won't hurt it with warm loads. I been shooting the old HE's for years with the same loads Elmer Keith loaded them with and I have not hurt one yet . They were not built for mild loads so what makes you think that's what you need to use in them now??

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Skelton blew a chamber on a M-1917 Colt .45 acp, which does have a heat-treated cylinder. The .455 S&W does not. He used a load with Unique powder that was recommended by Keith and others.


I don't know which loads you've used. But an idiot may make up Ruger Only or similar ammo, and that could easily blow up one of these old guns, never proofed for such high pressures.


You do what you want. Personally, I won't load even a heat-treated M-1917 with ammo much hotter than std. .45 ACP pressures. One factor to consider, apart from the thin chambers, is that these guns are now 100 years or more old.
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