Anyone load the .455 Webley MkII?
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I am planning on reloading my brass, will get lee dies for my pro 1000, someone does make the expanding base bullet for them and you can use .45acp soft cast bullets in .454 for it. My brass is fiochi and I haven't investigated primers or powder yet, but other people here have.
You can get .455 Webley brass - usually by purchasing ammunition and shooting it. But the ammo is a bit expensive.Hitzy said:
I prefer to buy .45 Schofield brass (very close dimensionally, but longer). I turn down the rims FROM THE FRONT. Easy to do once you set up with a mandrel and dial indicator. Or buy a machinest friend a case of beer and he'll probably do a couple of hundred cases for you - should last you for life. I then trim the brass to a length just short enough to drop freely into all cylinders. This will leave you with brass longer than official .455 dimensions, but I prefer this. The actual Webley chambers are quite long, and I'd like the bullet to enter the chamber throat just after exiting the case, not after a couple of tens of an inch of wallowing down the cylinder.
Bullets. RCBS makes a custom order mould that is a very close copy of the Webley ball round of the time. It has a hollow base, which seems to help with Webleys - where the cylinder throats are always much tighter than the barrel dimensions.
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I recently bought some re-worked .45 Colt brass from Buffalo Arms. It is the longer Mark I length which I prefer and it has worked well. I have been using some .452 sized 260 cast Keith style bullets that I had on hand and they have been a perfect fit for the cylinder mouths and barrel on my Mark III. Accuracy has been fairly good.
Ellwood Epps often has some of this brass available. I have used the Fiochi stuff also but prefer the longer case of the Mark I.
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I recently bought some re-worked .45 Colt brass from Buffalo Arms. It is the longer Mark I length which I prefer and it has worked well. I have been using some .452 sized 260 cast Keith style bullets that I had on hand and they have been a perfect fit for the cylinder mouths and barrel on my Mark III. Accuracy has been fairly good.
Ellwood Epps often has some of this brass available. I have used the Fiochi stuff also but prefer the longer case of the Mark I.
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cast bullets for 45 colt fit the bill well, do they not?
MT Chambers produces soft or hard cast bullets to .455", I would suggest soft cast in .454" to start with, as they will "slug up" to fill the bore, undersized bullets may let gases get up along side the bullet and produce leading and poor accuracy.
David Doyle had a bunch of once fired 455 Brass for sale in the EE here! PM him i bet hes got some if ya need it!
Ive used 45 keith style bullets in 250 gr weight dia .454
but the big bored 455s like a hollow based bullet!
So my buddy made up a new Hollow based plug for a Lee 298 gr .454 Dia Mini bullet mould.
It now casts a 250 gr flat nosed .454 dia hollow based bullet the perfect bullet for my 455/ 476 caliber British Antique revolvers.
And x2 on the 45 scofeild cases there EX!
Ive used 45 keith style bullets in 250 gr weight dia .454
but the big bored 455s like a hollow based bullet!
So my buddy made up a new Hollow based plug for a Lee 298 gr .454 Dia Mini bullet mould.
It now casts a 250 gr flat nosed .454 dia hollow based bullet the perfect bullet for my 455/ 476 caliber British Antique revolvers.
And x2 on the 45 scofeild cases there EX!
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If you are reloading for 455 Webley, check your cylinder diameter, all my Webley's run at about .450, so using .454 bullets offers no real advantage, just use soft alloy .452s. The original bullets were HB for this reason.
There is quite a bit of brass about, I pick it up at gunshows all the time. New factory cases are about .25$ ea, and last a long time.
There is quite a bit of brass about, I pick it up at gunshows all the time. New factory cases are about .25$ ea, and last a long time.
I have been reloading for my MK.6 for a couple of years and found B EYE to work well through it. I have a RCBS mould that cast the exact 265 gr. .455 dia. hollow base bullet. These WEBLEY revolvers shoot very well. Now I have just picked up a hand eject and dropped the same bullet from the webley into the hand eject. At 50 ft I could keep them all on paper but I had some of them going in sideways so this bullet that worked so well in the webley is a no go for the hand eject. As far as brass goes there always seems to be a bit at gun shows. I also made some from 45 colt and 45 auto rim.
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