14 Aug 08 14:59, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> THat's always been my other big leery factor of doing such tricks
 RW>> with an automatic.

 RW>> I have revolvers for experimenting. I've fired 'snake' shot in my
 RW>> Ruger 44 magnum revolver, for instance. I've also fired 'snake' shot
 RW>> im my Colt SSA .22 revolver. Both rounds come with a plastic bullet
 RW>> that holds the shot and it probably doens't have any impact on the
 RW>> barrel at all.

 RW> Yah that's the one I had which had fired bird or snakeshot
 RW> before I acquired it.  tHE birdshot hadn't done nice things
 RW> to that barrel.

I havn't noticed any unusual scarring.

 RW>   I took it as partial payment of a debt.

That's interesting. I aquired the Ruger from a fellow who needed money to
pay his rent. I don't know why, but I've kept it all these years.

I aquired a nearly new Colt Python .357 magnum in the same way. Put it in
a gun shop on consignment and the proceeds nearly paid for my brand new,
nickle plated, Colt .45 model 80.

 Me>> stepping outside the design parameters here could mean you blow off
 Me>> your own arm or something else interesting.

 RW>> I would be afraid of a jam with ammo that wasn't meant to be fired
 RW>> in a Colt .45 ACP.

 RW> I would too.

 RW>> In that scenario where a man comes screaming at you with a knife in
 RW>> his hand, that's a time when you need reliability most. There
 RW>> wouldn't be any time to fix a jam. In that case, you might as well
 RW>> meet him with a club for all the good a jammed firearm will do you.

 RW> You know for years cops I used to talk to said that's why
 RW> they preferred revolvers to automatics whenever the
 RW> situation might get hairy.

OTH, a new TV program about Guns on the History Channel last night,
suggested that cops prefer the 17 shot autos to revolvers, because of the
firepower and faster reloading. Jams didn't seem to scare them.

                R\%/itt



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