mc, please explain your criteria for defining a modern gun with modern steel barrels...
your statements are provocative but meaningless without details of pressure differences between 2 1/2 cip and 2 3/4 sammi spec loads...
and do you have evidence of many barrel failures of 2 1/2 guns altered to 2 3/4 guns...i do not...
also, a common practice of some who shoot vintage guns is to use light loads, usually about 10 percent less shot than standard load gun was designed to shoot, with velocity less than 1200 fps ...in an effort to reduce pressure to protect metal and to reduce recoil to protect wood...
this practice has been going on for some time by a lot of shooters, without reported problems...
and even better, rst built a very successful business creating black powder like pressure loads with smokeless powder...hopefully rst will resolve their componet supply issues soon and be back in business...
Last edited by ed good; 09/21/22 12:46 AM.
