docwharden1881
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Let me preface this by saying I want to be safe and in no way encouraging unsafe practices. I am, however, curious about different ammo in different guns. Google was not really helpful and I',m not going to take a guy at the gun store's word for it so i'm asking here. Cleaning out the barn/shed i found two boxes of .45 Schofield aka .45 S & W. Aside from being old and a little discolored it seemed okay. Here is the issue if any. All I have are Colts. All revolvers b.t.w.
I was assured it would be fine to shoot the .45 S & W out of the Colts. But I am leery to do so. The same guy also said .380 out of a nine mm is okay b/c .380 is also called 9 milimeter short.
I know some ammo interchange is okay such as:
.38 spc in a .357
.44 spc in a .44 magnum
(Roy Harrell, brother of Paul, showed 10 mm and .40 S & W out of the same pistol)
possibly .223 in a 5.56?
I'm not going to mess around with any of this until I know it will be 100% safe for me and the firearm. Thanks in advance.
-Doc
I was assured it would be fine to shoot the .45 S & W out of the Colts. But I am leery to do so. The same guy also said .380 out of a nine mm is okay b/c .380 is also called 9 milimeter short.
I know some ammo interchange is okay such as:
.38 spc in a .357
.44 spc in a .44 magnum
(Roy Harrell, brother of Paul, showed 10 mm and .40 S & W out of the same pistol)
possibly .223 in a 5.56?
I'm not going to mess around with any of this until I know it will be 100% safe for me and the firearm. Thanks in advance.
-Doc