10mm Ruger LC Carbine

What type of bolt face does the LC-45 have? The bolt face on the AR style CMMG Banshees don't give full-support & cases bulge in their 10Auto model.

Wonder if the LC-10 will be able to handle full power loads without bulging the cases?

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Thanks! You got me to look at the action again and I learned some more.

The bolt face isn’t the issue with bulged cases. A barrel with too big a cutout for feeding might though. It’s often called an “unsupported chamber.” Some Glock calibers were notorious for tossing out cases with a “smile” shaped crease near the case head. If there were enough chamber pressure to bulge the case head - the only part that contacts the bolt face - you’d have much bigger and more exciting problems.

What I found that fascinates me is the LC 45 has a fixed ejector like a Mauser, 1903 Springfield, or almost any semiauto pistol. Not a plunger style ejector like an AR-15, Remington 700, etc.
 
The bolt face isn’t the issue with bulged cases.
A barrel with too big a cutout for feeding might though. It’s often called an “unsupported chamber.”

Are you saying that the Ruger LC-45 does not have a bolt face like an AR's?

Rifle bolt faces surround the cartridge rim & part of the head of the case because the case is not fully enclosed in the barrel's chamber unlike typical pistol chambers/barrels do.

Rifle brass is very thick at the head & can stand withstand the exposed pressure.

Most pistol brass is relatively thin at the head by comparison & when not fully enclosed, like in an AR action, the brass will bulge at higher pressures. This is why the Banshee 10Auto bulges brass.

This is not the same as fully-supported -vs- unsupported pistol barrels.

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Typical AR15 BCG where the bolt face surrounds the case head
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