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8mm/06
Is there any concern about the shorter 38 sp case and exposed .135 of bullet allowing for more lead or plating to "scrape off" on the chamber edge?
Having never approached this before it crossed my mind, but I have no experience with it to know one way or the other.
If your wheel gun is in time you won't have that problem (well, serious problem as ALL wheel guns have a little scrape off when jumping from chamber to barrel) unless you have some "tilt" in your loads. I used to shoot .38sp out of my .357 Colt Python all the time for practice (still kicking myself in the butt for selling that damn pistol) and the only time I ever had serious scraping was when I didn't seat the bullet dead straight. I don't practice a whole heck of a lot with my current .357 since I don't hunt with it all that often and the only loads in .38sp I load currently are for my wife's little Lady Smith.