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Old 07-29-2020, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by 625smith View Post
The bullets are not the Speer 4477 "Flying ashtrays". The last Speer manual that had load data was # 13. The cartridge on the left is loaded with the 4477.
Yep, that is the famed "flying ashtray" bullet. It was possible to make them feed reliably in a 1911, but not without a fair amount of work, at least in my experience in the late 1980's.
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