Thread: Helping a friend identify a handgun
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Old 08-02-2020, 02:37 AM
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Right size Pure Lead or ''soft' Bullet, almost no blow-by of early Gasses...

Undersize Bullet, lots of blow-by till the Bullet upsets enough to obturate the Barrel Bore fully..an undersize and hard Cast Bullet may never fully obturate enough to occupy the Groove to Groove.

Once occupying the Groove to Groove fully, no more blow-by...

I'll guess that full house, heaviest Bullet of the Day for it ( 160 Grain say ) , best Pistol Powders of the Day, .38 - 44 would run about 18,000 PSI.

.44 Russian, probably about 14,000...maybe a little more.
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