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Shooting Shaved Webley Revolvers (w/ Steinel Ammo) (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-06-08 12:00:01 +0000 UTCSteinel Ammunition has started making a rather niche new product, but one that I think is quite convenient: .45 ACP downloaded to .455 Webley pressure. This is for use in Webley revolvers that were shaved to use moon clips and .45 ACP when they were imported. This is a common modification done by importers back when proper .455 Webley ammunition was very hard to find; by converting the guns to .45 ACP they became much easier to sell (a similar thing was done with .380 ACP barrels in Husqvarna M1907 9x20 SR pistols). However, standard .45 ACP ammunition is equivalent to .455 Webley proof loads, and it's not safe to shoot it. So historically, the shaved Webley revolvers have been shootable (safely) only for bandleaders. Steinel's new offering gives people a factory-made option that can be safely shot right out of the box.
Disclaimer: Steinel sent me a box of this ammo for free. I'm doing a video because I think it's an excellent thing to have on the market, not because I can be bribed for $39.99 ;)
Comments
Glenn Miller
Episode title made me pause to think...
Christian D. Orr
Shooting a Webley is still on my Bucket List. 🪣💥🔫🇬🇧🏴
ViejoLobo
Kudos to Steinel for filling yet another niche. Somewhere I have a box or two of .45 AR. Still manufactured, as is the brass. Why not .45 Auto Rim, suitably downloaded? You might even be able to use speedloaders--not quite as fast as a moon clip, but what's the hurry in shooting a century-old topbreak?
ViejoLobo
Yes. Half moons only back then, although undoubtedly someone welded a couple together just 'cause.
Walter Cheatham
When I bought mine in 1963, there were no such thing as full moon clips. Mine came with four M1917 half moon clips. As I recall, all for 27 dollars.
Daniel Standridge
It seems that a cheap folding table would be a useful and helpful investment.
Stephen Woods
45 autorim works just fine, if you load it to .455 pressures.
Guido Schriewer
think a 454 HAS BEEN in combat. once or twice. bet they did the trick very well back then. so... maybe one would use those again.
Guido Schriewer
I LOVE moonclips. would 45autorim work in a shaved to acp cylinder? man topbreaks are just too cool. wow. 455 has REALLY low(!) preassure, huh. if a acp is warmer...
lanny w robertson
so you can be bribed
Mrgunsngear
Wild how weak that loading is - it is cool that it's a factory loading now though
Matthew Long
Lawrence Welk’s favorite revolver…? ;-p
Mark Townsend
Ducking autocorrect.
scott pochini
Interesting, up to now that’s why I have avoided picking up a Webley with a shaved cylinder because I knew it to be a ticking time bomb possibly
Mark Saxby
Shootable only by bandleaders? Wow, that is niche! 😀
