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.45 Long Colt in a .410 shotgun?
sharkman69
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Can you fire a .45 Long Colt shell out of a .410 shotgun? I asked a few people, and nobody seems to know, or wants to try it and see.
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Will you find people that will tell you tat you CAN shoot .45 Colt, .44 Magnum, etc etc. I'm sure you will. But you are still forcing an oversized overpowered projectile out of a gun made to handle different pressure levels.
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A 410 Shotgun depending on the amount of choke in the muzzle. Could be between .390 and .410, Internal diameter, at the muzzle. This can vary, by amount of choke and manufacturer.
Even with a cylinder bore, .410 shotgun. It Would be at least .030 undersized, as compared to the diameter of the 45 LC cartridge.
Chamber pressures are generally higher than what is required to swedge bullets but it's not a good plan to shoot the wrong ammo in the wrong gun.
Don't attempt to chamber or fire a .45 long colt cartridge in a .410 shotgun...
Having said that there are guns specifically designed to utilize both cartridges - like the bond arms derringer and a variant of the nef handicapped rifle or the Taurus judge and it's clones...
But I would not attempt what you are suggesting.
Mike
Thompson Center started this long ago with their 357, and 44 Magnum Hotshots, in their respective Contender barrels that had a special screw in EXTERNAL choke tube, and special loaded extended shot capsules. They then graduated this Idea, by taking a 45 caliber rifled barrel blank, and chambering it for 410, and adding a special screw in choke with straight internal flutes to stop the shot charge from spinning on exit. Hence the 45 Colt/410 Barrel. It actually has a 0.452" bore, not 0.410 like a 410.
Move later down the road, by a decade or so, and others start using this idea...a rifled 45 colt barrel with a 410 chamber, seems like a good versatile idea, and it is for some situations. Taurus started the revolver craze with the Judge, and S&W followed later on. It solves several problems, and creates some other's, confusion, being the biggest one, by giving folks this very idea, that if the cartridge fits in a chamber, that it MUST be OK to fire it.
So for your best results, I would shy away from it.
I asked a few people, and nobody seems to know, or wants to try it and see.
Why don't you try it and see?