Webley 442 RIC / 44 Webley

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Is there any interest in a mold for the Webley 442 RIC bullet? Also known as the 44 Webley. 

This is a heeled RN bullet. The cartrdige was originally designed for the Webley Royal Irish Constabulary revolver and was quite popular with US and Belgian made revolvers at the time.

Dimensions vary somewhat but I believe a RN, 200 gr, 0.420″ heel / 0.443″ main body is about right. 200 grain. I can send some sample bullets if needed. 

Could NOE make something like this and is there any interest?

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I am sure there is interest.

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s what I did.  I miked my 44 Belgian bulldogs and found both were actually .438  bore.  Close enough to 7/16 for me.  Im a 1″ x 7″ x 1″ inch steel block I drilled a 11/32″ hole (5 of them actually).  In that hole I drilled a 7/16″ hole for a depth of 0.3″.  I then reamed out to a depth of a second 0.3″ a hole of 27/64″ (0.421″).  I then tapped the balance of the 11/32″ holes for a 3/8″ bolt. 

I seat the bolts so they protrude 0.35″ into the cavity.  Filled with lead this gives me nice hollow based and heeled wadcutter bullets.  When the bollts are backed out I push the bullets out with a 23/64 punch I made for the job.  They seat very nicely in .44 Special brass cut down to 0.85 on top of about 15+ gr. of FFF with smalll pistol primers.  The pistols like them too. 

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