Goose, our lineage isn't all that different. I came from a family of "rural electrification project" beneficiaries who ranched many acres in Central Texas for ages, crossed with Scottish hard rock miners who immigrated to the US in 1910. The adults in that clan worked in the gold mines while the kids were in the stamp mills of Searchlight NV mixing mercury with ore to extract gold. No one in my immediate family was/is wealthy, and we all know about improvisation and making due with what we have on hand. My wife and I have worked very hard to have a lot more than we ever thought possible, which allows me to indulge in the shooting sports far more often than most folks. I certainly didn't inherit it, and like you, I earned it.
I am very familiar with the Blackhawk .30, and with the .30 M1 Carbine as well. Yes, the pistol is an unpleasant beast when fired with rifle-spec loads, but it can be tamed with a load of around 3.0 gr of Trail Boss and a 100 gr Speer Plinker (or similar bullet). This makes for a load perfectly suitable for the Blackhawk that serves the purposes of the original poster, and leaves nothing to chance.
As for not having the opportunity to purchase or experience things, you in flyover country need to thank the Lord every day that the liberal rodents who infest the Statehouse here in CA aren't in your Statehouse. Trust me, you would be singing a completely different tune when it comes to firearms laws and regulation. Easily 2/3 to 3/4 of the guns reviewed in magazines today aren't even legal here...and come Jan 1, 2018 I won't be able to ammo buy on line... and I will need a State-issued permit to buy any ammo at all. I guess if I haven't been reloading for decades myself the .45 Super, 6.5x55, and .41mag I own would go hungry, as none of my local retailers stock those calibers at all.
My issue in this thread revolves around people being encouraged to experiment with firing cartridges that are not designed for, nor even remotely compatible with, the caliber of the firearm being used. We have all seen what happens when a .380 makes it into a 9mm, .40 is fired in a .45, a 44 mag slips into a .45 Colt, etc. Sometimes it's a 'pop' and a gun merely jams as the case ruptures in the chamber, sometimes it's a "kaboom!" and a trip to the hospital for the unlucky or inattentive shooter when the gun explodes. Yes, I have seen all (and more) of these caliber mix ups occur, and total failures aren't pretty. ( The .44/.45c resulted in just a burst case and some powder freckling of the shooters face and hands because the gun was a first model Vaquero .45C that contained the full house .44 mag pressures. If it was a Peacemaker or clone it would have been a disaster.)
Sometimes these things work without issue and no one is the wiser. Sometimes they don't, and that is what we as responsible shooters need to discourage. I opined that this also may damage the gun needlessly as well. If it does or if it doesn't it's not my gun, nor will it ever be, so I will truly never know. But even if the chamber isn't harmed by firing the .32 SW in the .30 Carbine revolver it is still not a smart thing to do.
We shooters take enough grief from anti-gunners who take aim at those of us who still embrace our 2nd Amendment heritage, and every pathetic a-hole who shoots up more innocents ( ala Las Vegas ) makes it even more likely a future unfolds where my kids and grandkids will only see a gun in a museum or in the movies. Adding to it people violating a solid tenet of firearms safety, by firing cartridges through guns that were not chambered for or designed to shoot them, is just another chance for a needless injury to occur. (Which naturally leads to the requisite fodder about the dangers of gun ownership for the antis to trumpet).
Keep on keeping on, and stay safe!
