sidheshooter
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I'm checking out loads for my .38 airweight, and I see that the buffalo bore standard pressure 158gr. LSWCHP (billed as safe in any older/alloy revolver in good shape) hits a claimed 854 fps from a 2" j-frame.
That's obviously pretty hot relative to the current market offerings; I'm fairly certain that there is no way that, say, Federal's version of the same load in +P "FBI" guise is going to even come close to that–IIRC, Federal's +P is probably just breaking 800 in a snub. My understanding is that Remington is faster than Federal, but I'd still be surprised to see their FBI load hitting much beyond that 854 figure.
Same bullet weight plus more velocity equals more pounding, and that strikes me as what stretches frames out of time.
What am I missing about the dreaded "pressure" issue here? I mean, so long as we are not so far above proof as to be blowing cylinders apart, I'd think that weight plus velocity equals wear, such as it is.
Or put another way, given the velocities, I'd expect the standard BB load to be about as hard (or easy) on the guns as the +P offerings from the big box manufacturers.
What do those of you that are expert in this sort of thing think?
That's obviously pretty hot relative to the current market offerings; I'm fairly certain that there is no way that, say, Federal's version of the same load in +P "FBI" guise is going to even come close to that–IIRC, Federal's +P is probably just breaking 800 in a snub. My understanding is that Remington is faster than Federal, but I'd still be surprised to see their FBI load hitting much beyond that 854 figure.
Same bullet weight plus more velocity equals more pounding, and that strikes me as what stretches frames out of time.
What am I missing about the dreaded "pressure" issue here? I mean, so long as we are not so far above proof as to be blowing cylinders apart, I'd think that weight plus velocity equals wear, such as it is.
Or put another way, given the velocities, I'd expect the standard BB load to be about as hard (or easy) on the guns as the +P offerings from the big box manufacturers.
What do those of you that are expert in this sort of thing think?