.410/.44mag

[powder in the air]

someone once told me you could send a .44mag round down a .410 barrel with know problems and being accurate. any truth or complete hogwash

 

[Ethan83]

That's not even remotely close to the ballpark of anything other than complete and absolute hogwash. Don't even think of doing that if you value your own safety.

 

[GNLaFrance]

The guy who told you that might not be as dumb as he seems. Telling you that you can fire a .44 Magnum in a .410 smooth bore might be his way of getting you to say, "Hold my beer and watch this."

Before he told you that, did he first get you to say he could have your '87 El Camino if anything bad ever happened to you?

Belated "Welcome to the forum", by the way. I like your screen name.

 

[Biggfoot44]

You could probably find a .410 that would chamber a .44 mag. The pressure would be aprox 3 times that of 410 shotshells. Since .410/.45LC guns are common , it would be not trick to make a slightly oversize bore suitable to handle a ..429 bullet, it would just have to be made to handle a .44 Mag proof load.

I can think of ONE .410 in my possesion that probably COULD handle this , but I won't even mention it on an open post.

 

[pop-gunner]

Bigfoot,
You mean undersized bore don't you.
.45 colt bullets are .452 and we know they chamber but .44mag are only .429-.432 so they would be a good bit smaller. I'm not sure if cases would be rupturing or not because of the size difference alone but since .45colt runs at 14000 psi (SAAMI) and .44mag runs at 36000psi I think there is a real good chance something very bad would happen.

I think the OP should not listen to "someone once" because they are an idiot.

 

[damifinowfish]

I have a New England Fire Arms .410/45 colt with a rifled barrel. Guess what? When shooting a 45 colt it is about a foot low and a foot to the left at 25 yards. Bottom line it was a waste of good gun steel and a waste of 45 colt ammo to shoot this thing.

44 mag in a run of the mill .410
I want to see the emergency room X-rays after some one pulls the trigger on this disaster.

I'm glad you asked before you let some one try this.
Please Please do not try this.
This could end up blowing apart inches away from some one's face

One Of the things I teach new shooters is to match the ammo to the barrel.
Barrels are marked and ammo is head stamped.
If the two do not match then they are not going to work and cause problems
If one is not marked do not use it until a qualified person looks at it.
If it is not marked for 44 mag do not drop a 44 mag in to the camber
Bad Bad thing will happen

 

[mbz300sdl]

Yeah please don't do that we would like to gain more members from Western Maryland and that could make us lose one!

 

[Biggfoot44]

True .410 bore size is .410 . In many/ most shotguns of recent decades the bores are somewhat to substantially oversized on purpose. Modern plactic wads handle it fine, and the larger bores are widely believed to give better patterns and/or less felt recoil. The .45/.45Colt bbls are oversized on purpose to safely handle .454 solid bullets. A true minium spec .410 shotgun bbl?

 

[powder in the air]

i didnt think it would work but it did make me wander but i am not special or rich enough to actually attempt such an absurd gesture and as it stands on the El Camino its an 83 ss

 

[GNLaFrance]

as it stands on the El Camino its an 83 ss

I love it! I'm a Ford fan, but Chevy SS anything is bad-ass.

 

[joppaj]

I love it! I'm a Ford fan, but Chevy SS anything is bad-ass.

260hp?

 

[kstone803]

260hp?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's just a low blow to chevy fanboys everywhere!!!!

 

[Jimbob2.0]

Bad idea.............real bad idea.

 

[GNLaFrance]

260hp?

I should have mentioned that my admiration of the Chevy SS badge stops about 1974 when I graduated from high school.

 

[joppaj]

I should have mentioned that my admiration of the Chevy SS badge stops about 1974 when I graduated from high school.

Ah yes, of course. Very sensible that.

 

[blackthorne]

I should have mentioned that my admiration of the Chevy SS badge stops about 1974 when I graduated from high school.

Mine stopped with the last good ones in 1970.

 

[Jimbob2.0]

Mine stopped with the last good ones in 1970.

Camaro 68 SS for me, but that was circa 95. Now I want Jeeps and bikes. (and maybe that Sunbeam Tiger or a good clone!)

 

[PGTMG]

someone once told me you could send a .44mag round down a .410 barrel with know problems and being accurate. any truth or complete hogwash

I know that a 44 magnum will not work out for you.

But when I was a kid my brother and I shot 44-40s out of a single shot 410 shotgun. Screwed up the case and can not say much for accuracy as it only had a bead sight but it fired. My Grandfather said "some people" ( I took as poor people) used to do this on farms to get rid of pests.

He did tell us not to let him catch us doing it again.

 

[rj1974]

Mine stopped with the last good ones in 1970.

 

[Magnumite]

Shooting the 44 Mag in the 410 has case failure written all over it. Not a good idea.