LK>>From what a gunsmith acquaintance of mine told me a number of years ago,
LK>>Fbe
LK>>glad you didn't get the Maximum.  He related an account of one guy who
LK>>gshot
 JS> Even in a Dan Wesson?
It was what he had and what he was talking about.  Beautiful piece; engraved,
too.
LK>>several hundred rounds through one in about a 2 month period and one day
LK>>sthe
LK>>gun frame came apart.  Seems that the massive pounding had allowed the
LK>>cylinder gap to open up a bit and the escaping gases ate away the top
LK>>cstrap
 JS> I can beleive this, though it makes me wonder if this guy
 JS> had the cylinder gap right.  I think it's .006", and is a
 JS> very crucial part of adjusting the barrels on the DW.
From my understanding of the conversation, it was a new gun so it =should=
have been gapped correctly at the factory.  Don't know if it was ever checked
before the guy started shooting it.
LK>>far as to make it impractical especially when you could darn near
LK>>fduplicate
LK>>the loads in a regular .357 and for about 1/3 the cost.
 JS> I know the pressure limits went up to over 45,000 psi,
 JS> easily outstripping the likes of the 30-30.  Looking
 JS> through various manuals it looks like the Max can be
 JS> cranked up to almost 50% more energy than the Mag, but as
 JS> you say, I probably would rarely use these loads whereas
 JS> I'll use some heavy loads in .357 quite a bit more.
Okay; I was just going by what this guy told me.
 JS> That's okay though because now I still have a reason to get
 JS> an IMI .50ae eventually.  :-)
Who needs a reason beyond "because someone makes one and I don't have one"?
:-)
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