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Originally Posted by demkofour
Since he had boxes full of .45 ACP ball ammo saved from his time in the military, he shot the pistol a lot and actually wore out the rifling in the original barrel.
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That answers the question I had reading this thread—why would the barrel have been replaced? But this leads to another question to those wiser than me (everyone on the forum). I would not think a semi-trailer load of .45 ACP would wear out the original barrel on this revolver?
In fact in my time here, I don’t recall ever seeing a thread were someone posted that all the rifling had been shot out of a S&W’s barrel.
And one other dumb question to the military men here. The service branches let you take home the ammunition you “saved” from your time in the service? Also how would one “save” ammo while serving? And in sufficient quantities to shoot out the rifling of a magnificent S&W?