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Can you shoot a .410 Shotshells from a .45/70 Rifle?
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 6/23/2017 | E Nestor

Posted on 06/23/2017 11:45:46 AM PDT by w1n1

Can the smaller .410 shotshell be used in a .45/70 rifle?

Is this true? What will happen if you do? Well, YouTuber The Emporium is taking on the experiment.

Well, the shotshell fits in the chamber of this single shot .45/70 rifle. It will also fire, but with donut-shaped patterns due to the rifled barrel. Oh those case heads sure do bulge. In his last shot the firing pin actually pierced the primer. This shows us that you should not try this ever.

Always only fire the cartridges or shells that are suggested by the manufacturer. See the 410 shotshell footage here.


TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 410shotshell; shotgun
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1 posted on 06/23/2017 11:45:46 AM PDT by w1n1
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To: w1n1

When me and my best friend were around 12, we found a bag of 16 gauge shells in an abandoned house.

Royce had a 12 gauge single shot and he was able to fire the entire bag by wrapping paper around the shell to make it fit better.

I certainly don’t recommend that anyone try that.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 11:49:10 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: w1n1

Never even occurred to me to try this with the 1873 trapdoor Springfield that I grew up with.

Probably thought it was a dumb idea if I had thought of it.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 11:49:31 AM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Beware of the words “I wonder if you could...” when uttered by someone holding a firearm.


4 posted on 06/23/2017 11:51:30 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: linear

I learned what not to do by my older brother and his friends.

homemade cannons, crossbows made from leaf springs and axles...


5 posted on 06/23/2017 11:55:32 AM PDT by digger48
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To: w1n1

Just because you could don’t mean you should


6 posted on 06/23/2017 11:55:35 AM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: linear
Beware of the words “I wonder if you could...”

That phrase is a colloquialism that you'll hear in the Northeast a lot.

It's a direct translation of a phrase you'll hear a lot down South;

"Hold M'uh beer..."

7 posted on 06/23/2017 11:55:38 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are...)
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To: w1n1

You’ll put your eye out, kid.........................


8 posted on 06/23/2017 11:56:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

In the Midwest, we used to say “Check this out...”


9 posted on 06/23/2017 11:57:19 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: w1n1

Following my father’s guidance of “use the proper tool for its proper job”; I would say, use the proper ammunition for the proper weapon, i.e. use a .410 shell in a .410 shotgun, a .45 ACP in a M1911, 9mm shell in a 9mm pistol,& etc.


10 posted on 06/23/2017 11:58:17 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: linear

Use to say: “Check this out...” and, if you were lucky, you went to the doctor and not to the funeral home.


11 posted on 06/23/2017 11:59:41 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

If lucky, the injury was something you could hide from your folks. If unlucky, you had to explain why there was a cop at the front door at 3 a.m.


12 posted on 06/23/2017 12:03:15 PM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: w1n1

I recall a statement by a famous person whose name eludes me right now, saying: “A tool of mediocre quality used for what it was intended, is better than a high quality tool used as for something it was not intended.”


13 posted on 06/23/2017 12:03:35 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: linear
“Check this out...”

Come to think of it, I did hear that growing up in Ohio.

14 posted on 06/23/2017 12:27:43 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are...)
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To: digger48

I made a leaf spring crossbow once. It was designed to launch a 4 foot straight steel pry bar. It was “fired” exactly once, at a 45 degree angle.

A word of advice: paint your projectile with a high visibility color paint.

We never found the pry bar.


15 posted on 06/23/2017 12:27:51 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: w1n1

My Dad left me a trapdoor 45_70 that he’d gotten from a studio sale in Hollywood in the 1940s. Also he had an Ideal handloader for it. I make my own black powder cartridges and fire it once in a while. Never use anything but black powder in a trapdoor. Even light loads of smokeless powder can build high levels of pressure. In other words never use ammunition that isnt specifically designed for the firearm. It is painful to have to say this.


16 posted on 06/23/2017 12:36:27 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: w1n1
I remember a high school teacher once telling the story of a boy playing with a 12 gauge shotgun shell in class. The shot had been removed but it was still fireable. He got called out of class at one point, and when he returned, he looked through the window and saw one boy holding the shell, one boy holding a BIC pen on the shell, and a third boy with a book getting ready to hit the pen.

He thought about it for a second, and said he hastily came to the conclusion that letting them do it was the best punishment he could come up with.

17 posted on 06/23/2017 12:37:34 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: w1n1

Sounds like a “Hold my beer” moment.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 12:54:17 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: w1n1

.410 in .44 Mag Ruger works fairly well. Just check the barrel as wads get caught up in it now and then.


19 posted on 06/23/2017 1:01:52 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: digger48

The Trapdoor would fire a shotgun shell which was issued to the troops for small game hunting so it will do it.

Basically black powder, wad, shot. It was sealed with a substance that hardened into a nice plug.


20 posted on 06/23/2017 1:18:43 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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