i meant do you need moon clips specifically for the 10 mm magnum in a revolver. I was wondering if it was a rimmed cartridge like the 45 auto rim. My post was poorly written. Thank you for taking the time to answer.
QUOTE="460Shooter, post: 10683879, member: 144044"]ALTDave answered the first part of your question, but I'm not sure how you mean your second question to be taken. If you mean do you need them specifically to run 10mm magnums in a revolver, then ignore the rest of my post.
If you mean are moon clips required for any revolver the answer is no. Revolvers are meant to chamber revolver cartridges like 357 magnum, 44 Special, and 45 Colt, without the need for moon clips. However, some guns are cut to accept moon clips to aid in reload speed.
In order to run rimless semi auto cartridges, you do have to use moon clips, otherwise the cartridges have no surface to headspace on, and will just fall through the chambers. There was a S&W revolver that was engineered to load and fire rimless semiauto cartridges, specifically the 9mm, but it involved some extra parts and a fancier extractor to allow for extraction with the ejector on rimless cartridges. Can't recall the model number. Hickok45 did a video about it.
In reading your post again, I think you just meant are they required for running 10mm mags.[/QUOTE]