Posted on 06/23/2017 11:45:46 AM PDT by w1n1
Can the smaller .410 shotshell be used in a .45/70 rifle?
Is this true? What will happen if you do? Well, YouTuber The Emporium is taking on the experiment.
Well, the shotshell fits in the chamber of this single shot .45/70 rifle. It will also fire, but with donut-shaped patterns due to the rifled barrel. Oh those case heads sure do bulge. In his last shot the firing pin actually pierced the primer. This shows us that you should not try this ever.
Always only fire the cartridges or shells that are suggested by the manufacturer. See the 410 shotshell footage here.
When me and my best friend were around 12, we found a bag of 16 gauge shells in an abandoned house.
Royce had a 12 gauge single shot and he was able to fire the entire bag by wrapping paper around the shell to make it fit better.
I certainly don’t recommend that anyone try that.
Never even occurred to me to try this with the 1873 trapdoor Springfield that I grew up with.
Probably thought it was a dumb idea if I had thought of it.
Beware of the words “I wonder if you could...” when uttered by someone holding a firearm.
I learned what not to do by my older brother and his friends.
homemade cannons, crossbows made from leaf springs and axles...
Just because you could don’t mean you should
That phrase is a colloquialism that you'll hear in the Northeast a lot.
It's a direct translation of a phrase you'll hear a lot down South;
"Hold M'uh beer..."
You’ll put your eye out, kid.........................
In the Midwest, we used to say “Check this out...”
Following my father’s guidance of “use the proper tool for its proper job”; I would say, use the proper ammunition for the proper weapon, i.e. use a .410 shell in a .410 shotgun, a .45 ACP in a M1911, 9mm shell in a 9mm pistol,& etc.
Use to say: Check this out... and, if you were lucky, you went to the doctor and not to the funeral home.
If lucky, the injury was something you could hide from your folks. If unlucky, you had to explain why there was a cop at the front door at 3 a.m.
I recall a statement by a famous person whose name eludes me right now, saying: “A tool of mediocre quality used for what it was intended, is better than a high quality tool used as for something it was not intended.”
Come to think of it, I did hear that growing up in Ohio.
I made a leaf spring crossbow once. It was designed to launch a 4 foot straight steel pry bar. It was “fired” exactly once, at a 45 degree angle.
A word of advice: paint your projectile with a high visibility color paint.
We never found the pry bar.
My Dad left me a trapdoor 45_70 that he’d gotten from a studio sale in Hollywood in the 1940s. Also he had an Ideal handloader for it. I make my own black powder cartridges and fire it once in a while. Never use anything but black powder in a trapdoor. Even light loads of smokeless powder can build high levels of pressure. In other words never use ammunition that isnt specifically designed for the firearm. It is painful to have to say this.
He thought about it for a second, and said he hastily came to the conclusion that letting them do it was the best punishment he could come up with.
Sounds like a “Hold my beer” moment.
.410 in .44 Mag Ruger works fairly well. Just check the barrel as wads get caught up in it now and then.
The Trapdoor would fire a shotgun shell which was issued to the troops for small game hunting so it will do it.
Basically black powder, wad, shot. It was sealed with a substance that hardened into a nice plug.
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