.45 Colt Brass Life in Rifle

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Hi All,

New to the forum, glad to be here.

I reload quite a bit of .45 colt (Ruger Blackhawk). Most loads are in the standard range (8-9 grains Unique and 250 XTP's or Lasercast).

I'm thinking of getting a .45 colt lever action (Winchester, Marlin, or Henry).

My questions are:

Does shooting pistol brass through a rifle decrease the life of the brass more than shooting it through a pistol or will the brass last just as long?

Are there any other consideration in this situation?

Thank you
 
THIS depends entirely upon the dimensions of the chamber in THAT particular rifle. It also depends somewhat upon your ability to handload correctly for that firearm. MANY 45COLT leverguns have chambers you can throw a cat through.
And so it goes....
 
"...Does shooting pistol brass through a rifle decrease the life of the brass..." Nope. Case life depends entirely on the load used out of any firearm. 8-9 grains of Unique is close to max for a cast bullet out of a revolver though.
Aside from it being unlikely, but possible, that your Blackhawk load will shot well out of a rifle, I very much doubt shooting it out of a rifle will make any difference at all. Wouldn't worry about case life myself. .45 Colt brass isn't hard to come by nor particularly expensive.
 
Having both a Ruger Vaquero with very close chambers, and a Marlin Cowboy, also in 45 Colt, but with larger chamber dimensions, I absolutely concur with WIL TERRY on this one. Ammo fired from the Vaquero show no bulging whatsoever. The same ammo fired in my Marlin are remarkably bulged. although the bulged brass resizes and reloads OK, I am certain it is affecting case life.
 
THIS depends entirely upon the dimensions of the chamber in THAT particular rifle. It also depends somewhat upon your ability to handload correctly for that firearm. MANY 45COLT leverguns have chambers you can throw a cat through.
And so it goes....
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Considering that the brass stretches to the dimensions of the chamber when fired, it makes perfect sense that the more oversize the chamber, the more your brass will stretch, and the shorter its working life.
 
Would he be better off to segregate brass? Not necessarily religiously, run them together as needed, but marking them for r and p, and keeping them separate most of the time?

I don't segregate my .357.
 
Another consideration is the possible differences in the overall length of the reloads needed for revolver and rifle.
It's not always about the chamber dimensions, but the feeding from the tube magazine for the rifle.
It that proves to be a requirement, then the ammo might have to be different and separate for each, too, if a happy version can't be found for both.
Just a thought.
 
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