44 Webley Rat Shot?

[Fox]

Has anyone made up rat shot for a 44 Webley?

This one has a step in the cylinder, the gun has an inside lubricated bullet and not a heeled bullet.

I was playing with some 44 brass, the 44 Mag case has a case length that matches the cylinder when a 30-30 sizing die is used to neck down the end of the case a hair to fit the cylinder.

Would it be possible to load 10gr of FFFg into this necked case, then place a card wad on top of that pushed into the powder as best as I can with a dowel then put #7 1/2 shot into the case, push this down slightly, card wad on top and carpenters glue to seal?

Has anyone done something like this?

I made one with a straight walled case, used 12gr of FFFg but you lose a decent amount of capacity.

As a side note, 12ga of FFFg and a 200gr RN pure lead bullet seems to do nicely, need to run it over a Chronograph still but it goes bang and went through an old cedar rail.

 

[infidel29]

Thought about it for funsies out of my 455 but never tried it. Can't imagine that it would get any accuracy out of such a short barrel. You'll have to do up a couple rounds and post pics of shot pattern and penetration for us.

 

[Fox]

Thought about it for funsies out of my 455 but never tried it. Can't imagine that it would get any accuracy out of such a short barrel. You'll have to do up a couple rounds and post pics of shot pattern and penetration for us.

There is no accuracy with bullets either, ha ha ha, shot may be better.

I was shooting at 15ft, not a really good aim point, mainly testing the load. If you were to use it for protection, as they did in saloons and banks back in the day you would have to aim for the belt buckle to hit the torso at 15ft, but it may be better than that, the short barrel whips quite a bit with a shot, so I want to actually get a good aim point and a bench and see how bad/good it may actually be.

The throat on this gun is .435 but the bore is .428, the bullets are lead .430. I know that this is for an inside lubricated bullet as there is a step in the cylinder and anything over .430 would be leaving lead in the cylinder.