Elmer wrote of gunmen carrying Colt SAs without barrels

in specially prepared coat pockets. Anyone try it? I did, while I had the barrel off my 480A for rust bluing. Fired a cylinder full (with some trepidation) and when everything looked fine - no frame thread damage - I loaded up five more and fired them at a sheet of plywood at seven yards with a video camera running. Of course, with no front sight it was a case of 'look over the topstrap' but it worked surprisingly well.

From the pics, you can see one slug tipped and two of the 290gr slugs landed sideways... and yet, the group would be quite effective at the usual social distance. Later, I chrono'd these and they ran 650fps instead of 900fps with the 4.75" barrel.

https://youtu.be/ftJ7gLMp6fc

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Made in 1887. I was cleaning it up and rebarreling it and when I had the barrel off I thought of what Elmer wrote so like you did, I fired some loads through it. The black powder loads were especially vicious. Lots of flame and smoke. If you were face to face with someone and let one of those go they got hit with a flamethrower.

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Which brings up another point - once the fight started, multiple shots fired from BP handguns ought to cloud up a bar. No telling who would get shot during a second exchange?

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