Author Topic: Newbie Question (Read 493 times)

357magnum · « **on:** October 12, 2004, 03:49:28 AM »

I'm sorry if you find this question ignorant but I'm a total newbie with regards to leverguns so please bear with me.

So, anyway, I just got an 1894 in .44mag and I was thinking what are chances of rounds firing off when I'm loading them into the tube if using soft point or hollow point ammo. I noticed that the mag spring was kinda stiff when I test loaded with snap caps and at least a little force is needed to push the previous round with the next.

Prince of Wales · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2004, 05:40:34 AM »

357 Mag I would feel safe about this. These are the kind of things the factory thinks about before releasing their product. Lever guns have been with us over a hundred years now and that issue has been pretty well resolved. If you can find 44 cal spitzers don`t load them. Thats all you have to know. Good luck with the lever. Let us know how it shoots. POW

big medicine · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2004, 08:45:13 AM »

With the Flat points, Hollow points or Round Nose you are good to go.

papajohn428 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2004, 10:34:24 PM »

I have even read (somewhere, heaven only knows where) that Marlin has tested spitzers in their tube-magazine rifles and didn't have any kabooms, but the lawyers won't let them okay their use. At least one writer (C. Rodney James, IIRC) has even built a test fixture to try and make rounds go off, and was unable to do so. So I wouldn't worry about blunt nose bullets. It makes me a little nervous, too, when I'm mashing the next round in through the gate, but apparently it takes a pretty good whack in the middle of the primer to set it off. Good thing, eh? :wink:

Papajohn