British Enfield Revolver
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I have an old ww2 british enfield(Webley Patent) revolver DAO chambered for the 380 british cartridge which is basically a 38 S&W with a really heavy bullet. The revolver was test fired only when I bought it and it is very tight and nice but 38 S&W is expensive as hell to shoot. I was wondering if there was a way to shoot some other load in it such as 380 auto with the help of some moon clips or something. I have heard of the Enfields bigger brother the 455 chambered Webley being able to shoot 45 ACP with the help of moon clips and wondered if it was do-able in the 38 chambered enfield.
I have an old ww2 british enfield(Webley Patent) revolver DAO chambered for the 380 british cartridge which is basically a 38 S&W with a really heavy bullet. The revolver was test fired only when I bought it and it is very tight and nice but 38 S&W is expensive as hell to shoot. I was wondering if there was a way to shoot some other load in it such as 380 auto with the help of some moon clips or something. I have heard of the Enfields bigger brother the 455 chambered Webley being able to shoot 45 ACP with the help of moon clips and wondered if it was do-able in the 38 chambered enfield.
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Hi, and welcome to the forum!
Don't know where your buying ammo, but around my area you can get 38 S&W for about the same price as 38 Special.
I know of no viable conversions for your revolver as the 38 S&W (British 38/200) is larger in diameter than the 38 Special or other "38" rounds. So your accuracy would be poor, and your faced with case splitting which can be dangerous to you and/or a bystander.
Also, by the time you paid to have a conversion done you could buy another revolver in 38 Special or a heck of a lot of 38 S&W ammo.
If you really shoot this revolver a lot buy your ammo in bulk, or reload ... this cartridge is very simple to load. Following are a couple links for ammo:
http://www.midwayusa.com/rewriteabrowse/6/7549/653***691***
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ctd/findresults.asp?mscssid=VVKNJVPC72VE8J85512PWF7DCATG2D4D
To the best of my knowledge Midway has the best prices of the large mailorder outfits.
I have a couple of these revolvers, one is mfg. by Enfield and the other by Webly & Scott. Both are suprisingly accurate.
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Thanks for the help but I was wondering if 9mm Makarov might work since it has a slightly bigger bullet than other 9mm or 38s. can anyone get back to me on this. 0 -
As to your last post, if the old rememberer is semi-fuctional, I think the 380 Brit is actually .380 bullet-wise, and the Makarov is a .364, so you would run into the same problem...too small for the bore. As far as the pressures involved, the 380 ACP is likely pretty close, but the 9mm Makarov is a good deal stouter as well so should likely be avoided as a replacement for a cartridge such as the 380 British revolver round.
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You're best off sticking to .38 S&W.
While some Webley & Enfield revolvers (notably the Mk. VI in .455 Webley) were modified to handle auto pistol cartridges with half-moon clips (.45 ACP), such was not the case with the smaller calibers.
If expense is a problem, buy a bunch of .38 S&W, and then reload.
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