45 Colt Fire Forming

[Ola]

Not trying to hijack, but..

Have guys fire formed .44 Mag cases to .45 Colt?
I have never done it myself but I know some people who do. Those cases look weird but they seem to work. I have always wondered WHY? What is the idea in that?

[EDK]

Here in Missourri, 44 mag cases are easy to find...at varying prices for new or once fired. 45 Colt isn't very easy to find..$25 a hundred for new STARLINE. Factory 45 Colt ammo is hard to find also.
Rim outside diameter is pretty close. Obviously 45 body is larger. Improvise to keep shooting.

[Ola]

EDK: Of course. That is the obvious answer. For some reason I thought it had something to do with extra-heavy .45 Colt loads..

[SSGOldfart]

for my Taurus.
it got sent down the road in less than a month.
Winchester brass is like 35.00 a hundred.
I'm not wearing it out in an out of spec chrome light reflector that I couldn't see the sights on anyway.

<<<<<<< permanently out of Taurus anything.

I must have bought your piece of junk,I shot two days with it and down the road it went

[gunoholic]

I had a quick play the other day, the chamber is not as bad as I first thought.
I ran some of my loads over the chrony, almost 700fps with a 200gn boolit, powder in the face.
Then I tried some that I'd stuffed the boolits right down near flush with the top of the case to get the pressure up.
1000fps, no blow by, clean cases.
I did the rest I had loaded and added some tape around the bottom to hopefully centre them.

[DougGuy]

200gr boolits are really light for caliber. From the comments if it was mine I think I would send it down the road and look to another rifle that wasn't so out of spec and problematic. Seems like a waste of perfectly good brain cells to have to deal with a crappily made rifle.