S&W wartime revolver?

[old tanker]

The Australian .38-200 revolver I have is also FTR 1954 if memory serves. Parkerized and in excellent condition. Imported to the USA post 1986. The Canadian revolver is original with lots of finish wear but is still tight and sound.

Nice shooting. Are you using 174 grain cast bullets? These revolvers shoot low with the usual 145 grain American loads.

The load used was a bullet cast from an old NEI #169a mould. 2.0 grains of Bullseye approximates the .380 Mk 1 service load, 200 grain bullet at 650 fps. At 25 yards slow fire it groups pretty well, if a tad high.

I quite like the bullet. While designed to duplicate the service slug of the British Empire's 38/200 load, 3.0 grains of Unique gives the same 700 FPS that the old 38 Special 200 grain Super Police loads did. The bullet has more of a secant ogive rather than hemispherical nose of the Lyman 358430. It may be even more likely to yaw. In my opinion, the Brits seemed to have a knack for designing bullets that were nasty or effective, depending on your point of view.

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Exactly.

the Brits seemed to have a knack for designing bullets that were nasty or effective

The old soft lead bullets obturated nicely and travelling slow didn't lead like we do now days. They flattened out some when hitting too...