I might take a notion to hunt deer with this load. Shots are short in our local deer woods, and I imagine the Lyman Keith would do well.

-AaronB

That's a round I've long wanted to play with. Way back in the 20th Century I stopped over in FL to accompany a couple of young ladies back to college. While waiting for one of them to finish the last couple days of work I hung out with a friend of theirs, who happened to have an old 1917 Smith and Wesson. We had fun shooting back in the 'glades of Florida, mostly using ACP ammo in half moon clips. But once I heard of the Auto Rim round it made all kinds of sense. Especially how you've got it loaded with a proper sixgun bullet!

I found that I could never get my .45 ACP (or Auto Rim) loads to chamber easily in my M25 until I had run them through a .45 Auto Rim roll crimp die. I would expect a .45 Schofield roll crimp die would also give you a good result, but I can't attest to that from personal knowledge.

The taper crimped cases always seem to want to hang up in the chamber for me, even when I apply the taper crimp pretty hard.

-AaronB

I would really appreciate this load in an N-frame open carry gun, say a Model 625 configured like a Mountain Gun.

Think of it as a .44 Special with a glandular disorder.

-AaronB