interesting responses...
- certainly do understand and agree that collectors desire guns to be as original as possible, including chamber lengths...
- but what about hunting guns, that certainly will be fired?...popular wisdom says shooting 2 3/4 shells in guns chambered for shorter shells increases barrel pressure and recoil...that being the case, why not just lengthen all short chambered guns to 2 3/4? that way one will not have any issues finding factory loads...and old hunting guns will last longer...
as for the safety issue, i was trained to believe that so long as there is around .090 of metal left in front of the altered chambers, with no alteration to the forcing cones, then most old guns with fluid steel barrels, would be safe to shoot with light smokeless loads...interesting that the responses here that discuss guns with successfully altered chambers, do not mention any barrel wall thickness standards that were employed before the chamber alterations were completed...why is that?
Last edited by ed good; 09/20/22 01:12 PM.
