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··Home For Wayward WatchesOf course these obviously aren't to scale, but it looks tidier to see all the dimensions side-by-side.
I've "done that which is evil" and experimented with interchanging similar cartridges in the past and without serious mishap, however that practice should rightfully come under the heading of "don't do this at home, kiddies."
I even happen to have guns chambered for each of the cartridges below.
.41 Long Colt really wouldn't work at all in a standard .410 chamber, being too undersized. Even the cartridge rim of the .41 Long Colt is small enough to be swallowed by the .410 chamber.
.410
The .41 Long Colt would not work properly in the .41 Magnum revolver either. The old Remington light .41 Magnum load (now discontinued) would deliver terminal ballistics somewhat similar to the .41 Long Colt.
When I was a kid, some cousins and I used to shoot .410 2 1/2-inch shells in the .45-70 "Trapdoor" Springfield.
I was present when an older cousin fired some .45 Colt cartridges through a trap door (or was it a Remington Rolling Block he had in .45-70). This would have been in about 1970 and memory is fuzzy. Seems like a pocket knife made an expedient extractor on this occasion.
I've "done that which is evil" and experimented with interchanging similar cartridges in the past and without serious mishap, however that practice should rightfully come under the heading of "don't do this at home, kiddies."
I even happen to have guns chambered for each of the cartridges below.
.41 Long Colt really wouldn't work at all in a standard .410 chamber, being too undersized. Even the cartridge rim of the .41 Long Colt is small enough to be swallowed by the .410 chamber.
.410
The .41 Long Colt would not work properly in the .41 Magnum revolver either. The old Remington light .41 Magnum load (now discontinued) would deliver terminal ballistics somewhat similar to the .41 Long Colt.
When I was a kid, some cousins and I used to shoot .410 2 1/2-inch shells in the .45-70 "Trapdoor" Springfield.
I was present when an older cousin fired some .45 Colt cartridges through a trap door (or was it a Remington Rolling Block he had in .45-70). This would have been in about 1970 and memory is fuzzy. Seems like a pocket knife made an expedient extractor on this occasion.
