Can a 454 casull be fired thru a rifle chambered for a 45 colt?

Question

Can a 454 casull be fired thru a rifle chambered for a 45 colt?

Answer 1

you can possibly have it rechanbered to 454 then you can shoot both.  The gun may not be strong enough to handle the pressures of the 454.  Check with a custom gun maker like Reeder Custom and ask.  They will need to know the manufacturer of the rifle and the model.  Good luck.

Answer 2

NO! The case is 1/10" too long.

Answer 3

No. Don't even try. Won't chamber.

Answer 4

Maybe you shouldn't be shooting until you take a firearms safety course.

Answer 5

No

Answer 6

no, too high a load for that.

Answer 7

The .454 Casull is based on the .45 Colt, but the case is longer. Even if you got it to fit, the higher pressures would probably cause a kaboom. I think the other way around works, though.

Answer 8

The 454 is  a longer case so it should not fit. If you can manage to chamber it - do not fire it, the 454 casul is a much higher pressure cartridge and could blow your gun up or damage it  and/or you. By the way if you had a 454 casul rifle you may be able to shoot .45 long colts if your manufacturer manual allows it. I have a 460 s&w that shoots 460's ,454's ,and 45 long colt as allowed by S&W's manual. I think the ruger 454 shoots .45 colt too. Note the case rims are slightly different thicknesses so check your manual even when ytrying a less powerful cartridge.

Answer 9

No, you can't interchange those two calibers.  If you had a 460, you could shoot the 454 and the 45 colt thru that gun, but you can't do anything with any others in a substitution.

Answer 10

Not without seriously damaging the rifle and very likely injuring the shooter.  The .454 Casull operates at a much higher pressure than the relatively low pressur .45 (Long) Colt.

H

Answer 11

No way

Answer 12

2 thumbs down, really???

It's not that it's too heavy of a load as the PUMA rifles aren't any more beefed up in the 454 version. A model 92 is a very strong design. A marlin will take the pressure too. Now an uburti clone...that's another story.

The case (and overall lenght) is going to be a smidge too long in a 45lc chamber and therefor it won't work.

Visa Versa it's alright though as a 45lc can be fired in any 454 (maybe some cycling problems but it will certainly fire safely.

Answer 13

The .454 Casull is a longer cartridge and will not fit in the .45 Colt chamber.  If you were to find some way of forcing it into the chamber, the Casull cartridge develops much greater chamber pressure than does the .45 Colt and could destroy the gun and injure the shooter.  Bad idea.

Answer 14

No. Chamber pressure is much higher in a .454 Casull.

Answer 15

no, it is the other way....

.454 is longer, and is made that way. you can shoot a .45 colt through a .454, like you can shoot .38 in a .357.

Answer 16

As you can see from all the other replies - no.

It is never a good idea to fire a different caliber cartridge in a firearm chambered differently.  The only time this works well and safely are for a few very well documented and highly published chamberings.  Such as:

38 Special in a 357 Mag

44 Special in a 44 Mag

Because the magnum version is just a slightly extended version of the small caliber.

Sometimes you do run across an interesting one - like the ability to shoot 410 Shotgun shells in a Thompson Contender  pistol chambered in 45 Long Colt.  Although TC owners do this all the time - I have never heard or read about firing a 410 in the 45LC or 454 Revolvers......... until someone with firearms engineering credientials says it's a good thing to do - you never, ever do it, even though it might seem logical.  Gun shops all over the world have blown up guns displayed on their walls - all things that seemed logical at the rime, but, not thought fully through.

When ever you do find something that should work logically - but - cannot find any supporting "reliable" documentation - you can always contact the gun makers customer support staff or talk with the support staff at a bullet manufacturer - like Sierra, Hornady, etc because these folks are up to speed on this stuff.

Hope this helps.