Reeder Custom Guns - Somebody answer Gary's post below. I have

Scott Deakins
Somebody answer Gary's post below. I have
Sunday, January 10, 2021, 17:48

wondered about this also but never got around to asking it.

this may sound like blasphemy but I have shot
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?

Somebody answer Gary's post below. I have - Scott Deakins, 2021-01-10, 17:48
- I shot thousands of hot rounds in Ruger .45 Colts - Jim Taylor, 2021-01-10, 20:09
- I have done it before. When I first started - Blake, 2021-01-10, 18:24
  - I don't see how dry firing can ever make a loading - gary reeder, 2021-01-10, 18:38
    - It’s not the dry fire, it’s the hot round - Blake, 2021-01-10, 18:52
      - not to argue but I don't see how an empty case in front - gary reeder, 2021-01-10, 19:57
        It’s physics - Randy Barnett, 2021-01-11, 15:17
        In theory, the gate is unsupported if the cylinder - John K., 2021-01-10, 20:16
        The one gun that I did it to actually - Blake, 2021-01-11, 05:18
- here is John K's response from below - gary reeder, 2021-01-10, 18:20