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To: Buffalo Head
Sure, but if you walk up to the counter at Walmart and ask if they have .45, chances are good the clerk is going to hand you a box of .45 ACP. Ruger Blackhawk 45 photo: Ruger Blackhawk Convertible 45 ruger45.jpg For your Ruger Blackhawk .45 long Colt. Of course with the extra cylinder yer good to go.
37 posted on 11/27/2016 3:57:09 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice; Buffalo Head
Sure, but if you walk up to the counter at Walmart and ask if they have .45, chances are good the clerk is going to hand you a box of .45 ACP.

For your Ruger Blackhawk .45 long Colt. Of course with the extra cylinder yer good to go
Part of my point I was making about regular usage. . . but it goes all the way back to the usage in the US Army Cavalry in the 1870s through 1890s. It is NOT unacceptable usage at all. I have seen GUNS with that designated caliber on them, and as I told Buffalo, I have, somewhere around here, a period box of .45 Long Colt made by Colt (I don't think I sold it).
45 posted on 11/27/2016 6:48:01 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: tumblindice
"....clerk is going to hand you a box of .45 ACP"

He will not. He will hand you a box of .45 Auto. The ACP designations were obsoleted prior to WWII. Where have you been? It's the head stamp stupid!

66 posted on 11/27/2016 9:32:40 PM PST by Buffalo Head (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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