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moonclips
A moon clip is a ring-shaped or star-shaped piece of metal designed to hold multiple cartridges together as a unit, for simultaneous insertion and extraction from a revolver cylinder. Moon clips may either hold an entire cylinder's worth of cartridges together (full moon clip), half a cylinder (half-moon clip), or just two neighboring cartridges. The two-cartridge moon clips can be used for those revolvers that have an odd number of loading chambers such as five or seven and also for those revolvers that allow a shooter to mix both rimless and rimmed types of cartridges in one loading of the same cylinder (e.g., 2 adjacent rounds of .45 ACP, 2 rounds of .45 Colt, and 2 rounds of .410 in a single six-chamber S&W Governor cylinder).
Moon clips can be used either to chamber rimless cartridges in a double-action revolver (which would normally require rimmed cartridges), or to chamber multiple rimmed cartridges simultaneously. Moon clips are generally made from spring grade steel, although plastic versions have also been produced. Unlike a speedloader, a moon clip remains in place during firing, and after firing, is used to extract the empty cartridge cases.
The thread title kind of says it: do you like, dislike, or something else, revolvers fed via moonclips? Why or why not? If affirmative, which wheelguns do you like? If negative, which one(s) soured you on the concept?
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Do you want to own an adult gun, in an adult caliber? Tired of those plastic things posing as a firearms? Want to make your wheel gun friends jealous? Care to fire your weapon and not leave any casing evidence for after? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you're in luck!
Up for sell my...
Do you want to own an adult gun, in an adult caliber? Tired of those plastic things posing as a firearms? Want to make your wheel gun friends jealous? Care to fire your weapon and not leave any casing evidence for after? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you're in luck!
Up for sell my...
These have stuck me as interesting as no moonclips are required and a wheelgun in .45ACP would be nice. One of the reasons I never took the plunge is, as far as I know, they only have snub length barrels.
Anyway, has anyone ever shot any of these? How well does the cylinder system work with...