</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by BYF-42:
<strong>The cartridges below are generally accepted as being interchangeable with the 9mm Largo.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">I'd be a bit careful here for actual shooting use. Conventional wisdom has it that the Astra 400 (9mm Largo) is able to chamber and fire a number of different straight-case 9mm rounds, including even 9mm Parabellum! It can do this because the gun is -way- overbuilt and has a very hefty extractor. I've tried this with 9mm Parabellum, it works, but there is an awful lot of gas and powder blowback into the chamber between the cartridge and chamber wall, and long-term use of ammo with cases shorter than the 9mm Largo will eventually wear away the front of the chamber and destroy its headspace.
Although these other cartridges may be aproximately interchangeable, I've never heard that other guns will safely interchange them, and I don't think it would be a good idea to try.
--Dwight
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