Howdy everyone, I have in my possession a New Model No 3 in 44 Russian. "Restored" at some point in it's life and S&W letter claims 1186 (if I remember off the top of my head) and 1915 shipment to Japan. Now at this point smokeless 44 Russian cartridges were being loaded and probably fired in this gun. So what I'm asking is simply if smokeless cartridges were available then can I fire them now. All other threads I see only blabber on about pressure curves and frame stretch, not actually answering question. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I've already fired more than a few cylinders full of older Fiocchi smokeless out of it with no ill effect as it's reasonable to assume it's eaten smokeless before. Feel free to call me an idiot as id rather have my reckless behavior berated out of me than hurt my gun (which to the best of my knowledge hasn't happened yet) thanks guys!