Lets see your Guns.

[Mark Bolam]

Amazing isn’t it?

A thing of beauty like that, over a century old!

[Mike Hill]

Johnson D is very close,he got the caliber right. This was originally chambered in .455 Webley but that the cylinder shaved to accept moon clips in 45 ACP.

 

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/this-old-gun-smith-wesson-455-hand-ejector/

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

Johnson D is very close,he got the caliber right. This was originally chambered in .455 Webley but that the cylinder shaved to accept moon clips in 45 ACP.

 

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/this-old-gun-smith-wesson-455-hand-ejector/

Would it be safe to fire the +p ?

[Mike Hill]

11 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Would it be safe to fire the +p ?

Probably. 

 

+P 45 ACP isn't very hot.

 

Given that a regular .45 Acp travels at the speed of a .177 Air Rifle pellet fired from a BSA Meteor.

 

 

[GarethM]

17 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

Probably. 

 

+P 45 ACP isn't very hot.

 

Given that a regular .45 Acp travels at the speed of a .177 Air Rifle pellet fired from a BSA Meteor.

Yeah, but the mass of that 45 might sting a bit more than a .177 from a BSA meteor.

 

I was always told pistols of that vintage could be stopped by a decent blanket at distance, always thought it was an old soldiers tall tale.

[Mike Hill]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Yeah, but the mass of that 45 might sting a bit more than a .177 from a BSA meteor.

 

I was always told pistols of that vintage could be stopped by a decent blanket at distance, always thought it was an old soldiers tall tale.

 

No that's a wives tale about the blanket.

 

Same as that chainsaw trousers stop .22 LR. It takes trousers folded x5 to stop a .22

[Mark Bolam]

That must have stung a bit the first 4 times Mike!

[GarethM]

13 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

No that's a wives tale about the blanket.

 

Same as that chainsaw trousers stop .22 LR. It takes trousers folded x5 to stop a .22

Always thought as much, shot many a steel target at 50-200m to know that even subsonic it's still got a bit of poke.

 

Granted 45 ACP is more a slow moving house brick compared to a 22 in whatever flavour.