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General Milsurp Weapons => Milsurp Hand Guns & Sub Guns => Topic started by: Phosphorus32 on November 19, 2018, 10:43:44 PM
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My items from the John Sukey auction arrived today. Here's a No2 Mk1** revolver, from 1944. It's a DAO break action revolver without a hammer spur. The positive ejection is quite cool when you crack open the hinged frame and the bullets or cases pop out under spring pressure.
It's chambered in 38 S&W but was known in military service as the 38-200, since the British developed a 200gr RN lead bullet for use in the pistol. PPU 38 S&W cartridges with 145gr bullets are shown. Those 200gr bullets would have been big slow bumblebees...slow but they'd still sting!
Pardon the flash photography but days have become short and I was anxious to post a few pics.
Cheers mates!
(https://preview.ibb.co/jY56x0/00-No2-Mk1starstar.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nF7KH0)
(https://preview.ibb.co/eEdRx0/01-right-closed.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dg3tc0)
(https://preview.ibb.co/n5Fjjf/02-right-open.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mfN8AL)
(https://preview.ibb.co/mVWPjf/03-left-closed.jpg) (https://ibb.co/msxaqL)
(https://preview.ibb.co/mtZoAL/04-left-open.jpg) (https://ibb.co/eTmeH0)
(https://preview.ibb.co/bT4ic0/05-SN-frame.jpg) (https://ibb.co/gigUH0)
(https://preview.ibb.co/nyXQqL/06-SN-cylinder.jpg) (https://ibb.co/kZfpH0)
(https://preview.ibb.co/girkqL/07-full-cylinder.jpg) (https://ibb.co/i9S3c0)
(https://preview.ibb.co/eoxEjf/IMG-0798.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jptn4f)
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Behind the scenes, GM pointed out that the British soon developed an FMJ round due to concerns about violating The Hague Convention with regard to the use of “expanding” bullets.
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I like it...drool2 You know it's coming, the usual question. So, can I have it.. rofl
The 38 S&W is a bit of an oddity round.. it's not like the 38 spl...with a diameter of .357, it's a .361 diameter bullet. Its also one round that had a heck of a service life being first made in 1877 and used in the S&W Model 2, and used by Britain well into the 1960s.
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I like it...drool2 You know it's coming, the usual question. So, can I have it.. rofl
rofl yup, and you know what’s coming. I’d mail it out west but wouldn’t want it to get lost in Montana ;)
The 38 S&W is a bit of an oddity round.. it's not like the 38 spl...with a diameter of .357, it's a .361 diameter bullet. Its also one round that had a heck of a service life being first made in 1877 and used in the S&W Model 2, and used by Britain well into the 1960s.
.361, that is an oddity. I’d blame it on British eccentricity but with S&W in the name I guess that’s out
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The bullet diameter is kind of a carry over from the black powder era, basically it's roughly a 36 caliber black powder ball measurement, then throw in heeled bullets and other designs from those days. This is a good explanation of the whole mess. http://blog.westernpowders.com/2017/04/caliber-confusion/
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neat, learn something too. thanks for sharing. thumb1
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The bullet diameter is kind of a carry over from the black powder era, basically it's roughly a 36 caliber black powder ball measurement, then throw in heeled bullets and other designs from those days. This is a good explanation of the whole mess. http://blog.westernpowders.com/2017/04/caliber-confusion/
Interesting. If there is one thing consistent in bullet, caliber, cartridge dimensions in the gun world...it is inconsistency rofl
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neat, learn something too. thanks for sharing. thumb1
Thank-you Carl! :)
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These were made at RSAF Enfield and Albion Motors in Scotland. Mine is of the far more common Enfield manufacture. Lay a block letter E F and D on top of one another and you get the D with a line in the middle as shown in the first picture.