Greyhawk,
Your missing some key points. First, I screwed up. Normally when I begin a project for myself or for a valued customer (One who pays on time), I first check ALL the dimensions to insure success. In this project I failed to do that (OOPS). It never occurred to me I had a chamber like a Fire Hose.
I cut the rifle to a 16 Inch Barrel. At 16 inches, the magazine will not contain 10 full length cartridges (44 Special) and at the same time, I did wish to emulate 44 Henry Flat. Set the rifle up for 44 Russian. With smokeless, it works a treat tho a mite dirty. SO:
When I made the switch to BP and Subs, the huge chamber reared it's ugly head. Because of the above parameters, messing with any kind of 44-40 case is a non-player. Regardless of wildcatting, the 44-40 case would wind up way too long. No Joy.
I've never been a proponent to Annealing. I've simply never needed to. When ever I built guns for my valued customers (yep, those guys and gals who paid their bills), the guns were built and chambered to correct dimensions. If said customer decided to mess with their cases, that was their never mind. Same same my guns. Correct chamber dimensions, correct throats, add nauseam. I never had a need to anneal cases. Never had Blow-By in one of my 45s bad enough to fret over. Now, however, I'm stuck with this stupid Trapper that won't digest BP or Subs and it's all MY FAULT!! Annoying .. that. SO:
Shamed by OD#3, I am reduced to resorting to a procedure I have in the past shunned. I do this in the hopes I can resurrect my OOPS Rifle and run it with BP and Subs. Otherwise it gets stuck in the back of the safe and only used on occasional Pissy Weather days (I shoot Cap Guns for CAS) when I resort to that Heathen Fad stuff. (Snort Snort Snorkel Snorkel .. Gag)
Coffinmaker
PS: Thanks however, for the good thoughts.