Redhawk. 454/45 Colt?

Yes. The cylinder is even labeled so.

Yes, but there's always a but. The .45lc has shorter brass and after some amount of shooting, leaves a bathtub ring of powder in the chamber. The .454 has longer brass and is a high pressure round, therefore, you really need to scrub the cylinder when going from .45 to .454 cartridges.

Just to insure the semantics of this question are understood, the Ruger Super Redhawk is chambered in .454 Casull... not the Redhawk. If one tried to fire .454 Casull in a Redhawk it would become a hand grenade.

As for shooting .45 Colt, sure. Think of it as shooting .38 special in a .357 Mag revolver, I do it all of the time.

If one tried to fire .454 Casull in a Redhawk it would become a hand grenade.

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I believe if one tried to fire a .454 Casull in a .45 Colt Redhawk, nothing would happen. Because you couldn't close the cylinder.

Dick Casull is no dummy.

I have read, on the infallible internet, that the .45 causes a little flame cutting in the chambers, then the high pressure .454 fireforms the brass into the annular depression resulting in difficult extraction.
YMMV.
I don't fire .45 in my .454s.

If the flame cutting were an issue I'd expect to find the same issue with shooting gobs of .38Spl out of .357Mag revolvers as well. It may take a little longer but it would happen all the same if it were an issue. Yet we don't see much on such a topic. So I suspect it's the pet idea of a select few unless it's fairly widespread.

I have read, on the infallible internet, that the .45 causes a little flame cutting in the chambers, then the high pressure .454 fireforms the brass into the annular depression resulting in difficult extraction.

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It ain't much of a "flame", with a low pressure round like the .45 Colt. Clean the crud in the cylinder prior to using the long cases, and you will be fine.

Don

Maybe they mean .45 Colt loaded to .44 magnum power levels will cause flame cutting in the cylinder after thousands of rounds, that I could believe.

If you are talking about a regular Redhawk, I have heard of people swapping a Super Redhawk cylinder into a regular Redhawk frame and shooting .454. I've also heard of people taking advantage of the long and beefy Redhawk cylinder to get .45 Colt going up to 1375fps with an extra-long nose 350gr. A factory regular Redhawk cannot shoot .454 though.

A factory regular Redhawk cannot shoot .454 though.

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Thanks for clearing that up. I started reading this thread thinking I missed something on the Ruger site, only to get my hopes shattered.

If one tried to fire .454 Casull in a Redhawk it would become a hand grenade.

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Pure nonsense. Firstly, a .45Colt chambered Redhawk cannot chamber .454Casull. Secondly, if it could, most factory .454 loads are in the 50-55,000psi range and the factory Ruger .45Colt Redhawk is safe up to that pressure range. Thirdly, it is safe to install a .454Casull cylinder from the Super Redhawk into the standard Redhawk. So your statement is completely untrue in any context.

Archangel... Are you talking about the Redhawk or the Super Redhawk?