hot loads, redux . . .
Johnny,
I don't have enough through the gun to be able to say how it will hold up. So far no problems. I don't expect problems, though, with the number of "hot loads" I expect to shoot in a year. I like the "logic" of going with the .45 colt, and I know a number of posts have said it won't handle hotter loads. I'm betting that at least up to the level of the Cor-Bon loads, it will do just fine, and probably do ok with an occasional hotter load for the first decade or so.
Cor-Bon said their hardcast should get through a bear's skull, and their hollowpoint through a wild pig's skin and then expand. I guess the bonded core would be for some thing in between, like a moose? So I can take the 625 into the woods confident
that I can use it for anything I need to out there. And when I get a yen to shoot higher power at the range, I can do so.
I like .45 colt, and it seems better logic to shoot that, and use hot loads when I need them, than to get a .44 mag, which I don't enjoy at all, and shoot .44 specials out of it, or else down load it to .45 colt like levels. Especially since the 625 is such a nice gun.
Now if only someone would bring out a D/A with interchangeable cylinders, so I could shoot .45 acp, .45 colt, .45 super, .460 rowland, .45 ar, etc. from the same gun, I would be in heaven!
Take care,
Canuck1911