How do multi-round pistols work?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 6:23 am
I've always heard "You can shoot a 38 special out of a 357 magnum" statements, and have even done it a few hundred times after witnessing others do it safely first. Now there are guns such as the 460 s&w that state you can shoot a 454 or even a 45lc out of it. It's obvious how they would chamber and fire, but I wonder... what keeps the bullet on these shorter rounds from tilting in the unoccupied chamber, and potentially jamming before reaching the barrel? Is it a case of "close enough"? It just seems to me there would be potential for this or that at least acurracy or performance would have to suffer.