Big Matt
Member
I may be mistaken but I thought I read somewhere on these boards that the .45ACP was created by Browning by scaling up .32ACP.
Source?The original Schofield had a wide rim for the S&W extractor star. It was replaced in the military inventory by the 45 Government with a narrow rim.
A word about the cartridges of these two handguns is in order. They were both .45 caliber, with the Colt taking a cartridge case 1.29" in length. Original military loads for it used a 250-grain bullet over 30 grains of black powder. (Not 40 grains as often written!) The S&W Schofield's cylinder was too short for the cartridge and, furthermore, Colt's .45 caliber cartridge cases had a bare nubbin for a rim. It did not give enough purchase for the S&W's ejector star to grab. Therefore, the Schofield revolvers were chambered for a 45-caliber cartridge with case length of only 1.10". In military loads, bullet weight was reduced to 230 grains and powder charge to 28 grains. Additionally, the S&W .45 cartridge case's rim was widened about .020" so as to work reliably with the star extractor. Both of these .45 caliber cartridges would feed and function perfectly in the Colt SAA but only the .45 S&W would work in the Schofield.
Keith goes on to say that the latter were not accurate in the Colt due to the long bullet jump, and that he thought the latter were made so they would function in the top-break S&W. He said he never tried them, and I'm not sure he was necessarily talking about two different rounds.The old Smith and Wesson cartridge with its short case has long been obsolete and so has the short Remington cartridge for the .45 Colt.
Needless to say it worked just fine in the new Model 1909s, but if you tried to load it into the Colt Single Actions of the same caliber (which had a cylinder that was smaller in overall diameter) the rims would interfere with one another and would only allow you to load every other chamber (interestingly enough, the 1909 worked just fine with a standard .45 Colt cartridge)! The new government version of the .45 Colt round went the way of the "Do-Do Bird" with the coming of the new 1911 Colt.
Don't know where you got your information, but real Air Force/Army/Navy flight jackets were never made of nylon. They're made of Arimid. A.K.A. NOMEX. Just like NASCAR drivers and firefighters wear. They don't burn or melt. NOMEX fibers are also used to make body armor.
Uncle Sam may be dumb, at times, but he's not that stupid.
Leather flight jackets were brought back for moral and retention reasons, only. It's got nothing to do with fire resistance.
NOMEX uniforms are also issued to armored crew members.
Don't know where you got your information, but real Air Force/Army/Navy flight jackets were never made of nylon. They're made of Arimid. A.K.A. NOMEX. Just like NASCAR drivers and firefighters wear. They don't burn or melt. NOMEX fibers are also used to make body armor.
Uncle Sam may be dumb, at times, but he's not that stupid.
Leather flight jackets were brought back for moral and retention reasons, only. It's got nothing to do with fire resistance.
NOMEX uniforms are also issued to armored crew members.
For that matter, the rifle cartridges of the day were maybe a bit of overkill for human beings, but for horse killing they worked pretty well. I imagine the old 220gr. roundnose FMJ in the .30 US/.30 Army/.30-40 Krag would've tunneled quite a ways into any draft animals caught out in the open.
Horse Killing.
And yet, the Moros were seemingly as immune to the .30-40 Krag as they were to the lowly .38 Smith and Wesson cartridges used.