points well made...
but then there is reality...
smokeless powder burns slower than black, resulting in higher pressures in the thinnest part of a barrel...which may cause twist barrels of low quality to fail...
ammo manufacturers print warnings on their ammo boxes telling us not to use their products in guns with twist steel barrels...why do they ALL provide that warning?
as old as they are, many twist steel barrels are of unknown quality...
and every now and then, one hears about a twist barrel failing...much more frequently than fluid steel barrels...why is that?
and, from a collectors perspective, the number of old twist steel guns is finite...as in, they aint makin those anymore...shooting old twist steel guns lessens their condition...if you must shoot an old twist steel gun at all, then why not do it with the ammo of the period in which it was made...as in black powder...
Last edited by ed good; 07/09/22 02:38 PM.
