British Service Revolvers - which one to collect or shoot?

[CCAMERA50]

a.s.a.p. i will post the exact meas. -

well, the dia. across the lands it is .348 then the thikness of a single land should be almost .0077

then i think should be none problem to fit a soft alloy ( as you told ) lead bullet RN dia .361 ( or .362 , ....i will test )
and see more accuracy then the FMJ Fiocchi i tested first

correct ?

CC

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[Patrick Chadwick]

not easy to find sources of bullets

Not so. Forget the misleading .455 designation.. They take common-or-garden .452 bullets. But NOT jacketed and preferably not hard lead. After all, revolver bullets are trundling along at black-powder velocities. So the revolver works best (at least, mine does) with medium-hard bullets (about Brinell 10-15) which are...
1) ...thanks to their inertia and (relative) softness, bumped up on firing to fill the chamber mouth, ensuring that they are parallel to the chamber axis.
2) ... swaged down by the the forcing cone to fit the bore.

1) and 2) are both necessary for best accuracy.

So you just need ordinary round-nose lead bullets. Or the wadcutters that look like a lead dustbin, with a slightly rounded nose - NOT those semi-wadcutter things that have a step. Best of all are the original form 255/265 gn bullets with a hollow base - rather like a Minie bullet - and they function very similarly. The Webley MK VI chamber is bored so that it can also take the Mk I cartridges (the old black-powder version) which is slightly longer. So there is a slight step where the mouth of the MK I cartridge would be, which is about 1/8" or so (someone else can dig out the data) in front of the Mk II case mouth, with the result that the step on the stepped bullets bangs into the step in the chamber. The bullet is skewed and accuracy is lousy.
The hollow base round-nose design is so long that the parallel portion reaches up to the step in the chamber, ensuring that the bullet starts moving properly centered on the chamer axis.

Get the original design of bullet if you can. Otherwise get .452 round-nose lead bullets. Hornady make excellent Mk II cases.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Correct!

[CCAMERA50]

Correct!

very well ! i hope will post soon some result ( .....target )

Thank you and best regards ;-))

CC

[Patrick Chadwick]

British Service Revolvers - which one to collect or shoot?

Getting back to the original question - there is only one answer. The Webley MKVI is absolutely the iconic British revolver. Thanks to Hollywood, it is has an enormously high recognition factor. And it is pleasant to shoot, easy to look after, and if you are a reloader and do not get irritated by the .455 designation, shoots quite ordinary .452 bullets. Lead, of course, and round-nose please! (I have already explained why in a previous post).