Reeder Custom Guns - this may sound like blasphemy but I have shot

gary reeder
this may sound like blasphemy but I have shot
Sunday, January 10, 2021, 16:14

literally thousands of rounds of big stuff, 454 and above and I have never worried about keeping an empty round in front of the loading gate. During the heyday of the extra large caliber's popularity we were shooting a hundred or more 475s, 500, 510s and so on every day, all the way up to max loads (proof loads) and never worried about that empty round in front of the loading gate. I have read all the horror stories but have never found one bit of truth to all those warnings. Who started this and has it ever proven to be something to be worried about?

I shot the 120 yr. old Colt SAA today - WB, 2021-01-09, 20:48
- Learn to shoot it by feel... point shooting .. - Jim Taylor, 2021-01-10, 16:27
- SCOTTY FIND AN EYE DOCTOR WHO CAN - JT, 2021-01-10, 07:30
  - The guy I've been using is a shooter - WB, 2021-01-10, 07:43
    - Find a different doctor! I take my handguns - JT, 2021-01-10, 10:13
      - Yep, I go to my optician who makes my glasses - Grover Sr, 2021-01-10, 11:03
    - Find a different optometrist... - ~JM~, 2021-01-10, 07:51
      - This sounds like it might be worth looking into - WB, 2021-01-10, 08:12
- Let me ask this. Are colts different than Rugers in that - Blake, 2021-01-10, 06:22
  - this may sound like blasphemy but I have shot - gary reeder, 2021-01-10, 16:14
    - Loading gate issue - John K., 2021-01-10, 18:07
  - COLTS DONT SHOOT THE HEAVY RECOILING ROUNDS (nm) - JT, 2021-01-10, 07:29
    - Yep. That I am aware of. Thanks (nm) - Blake, 2021-01-10, 07:38
  - The old Colt loading gate is a smooth surface - WB, 2021-01-10, 06:44
    - Good info thanks (nm) - Blake, 2021-01-10, 07:37
  - I guess on a ruger it would be the first - Blake, 2021-01-10, 06:25
    - You can leave an empty as the “skipped” round - steve todd, 2021-01-10, 08:31
- I think you are on to something - steve todd, 2021-01-10, 00:02
- Those sights are tiny. Love it, though. (nm) - Stuart in GA, 2021-01-09, 23:07