AboutGCH Expertise I CAN answer questions related to defensive use of firearms, tactics, prudent modifications of firearms, utility of certain types of firearms. My greatest knowledge is in the area of handguns.
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Experience Primary Instructor, F2v (armed and unarmed self-defense); NRA Certified Instructor; NRA Distinguished Expert, Handgun; International Defensive Pistol Association certified Safety Officer; IDPA classified Expert, Stock Service Pistol Division; Multiple graduate, Practical Firearms Training, Tactical Carbine and Advanced Defensive Handgun; Insights Training Center, Defensive Folding Knife; Integrated Defensive Fighting Systems, Unarmed Defense and Fixed Blade Knife; Range qualified with local police department, handgun and shotgun; Kukkiwon Ildan Black Belt, ETS certified Self-Defense Instructor
Organizations National Rifle Association, International Defensive Pistol Association, Virginia Citizens' Defense League; Integrated Defensive Fighting Systems; Personal Defense Group
Publications Tactical Journal
Education/Credentials Bachelor's and Master's degrees; Graduate Practical Firearms Training, Handgun levels 1, 2, and 3, and Tactical Carbine; Kukiwan certified Ildan black belt.
Awards and Honors Multiple trophies from various tactical pistol competitions.
Expert: GCH Date: 3/10/2008 Subject: query realted to guns
Question qus 1: can a pistol fire a bullet of 8mm/.315 bore?
qus 2 : can one weapon fire both type of cartiridges i.e 12 bore , 8mm, .315 bullets?
qus 3:which kind of bore can result into deposit of 88 pellets in one single injury ?
Answer 1) Although throughout the years there have been some pistols chambered in some form of 8mm (the Japanese Nambu; the 8mm Steyer), modern firearms that fire 8mm are either blanks for training guns (such as Simmunitions). There is to my knowledge no commercially available serious fighting handgun in 8mm.
2) If by "12 bore" you mean 12 gauge shotgun, you are looking at a bore that is around 1 inch in diameter, so the answer is "No" unless you have a break-top gun that is bored for shotgun on top and rifle (8mm Mauser) on bottom. Taurus makes a revolver that can chamber and fire .410 shotshells or .45 Colt cartridges, but that's about as close as you'll get to what you are describing.
"Cartridges" and "bullets" are two different things. For example, both the 7.62 NATO and Soviet 7.62X39 take the same diameter bullet, but they are not the same cartridges and one won't work in a gun chambered for the other. Likewise 9mm NATO and .357SIG have the same projectiles, but a gun chambered in one cannot use ammunition for the other.
3) When you speak of "bore" and "pellets" you are talking shotguns. A 12 ga 00 Buck standard charge has 9 @ .32 caliber pellets. By contrast a 12 ga with #9 shot probably has hundreds of pellets. So what bore shotgun would have 88 pellets is a question with not enough information to answer - you would need to know what size shot you are talking about.
