mcb
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I have a shaved Mark I I'll gladly trade.
Speaking of... if you still haven't found a set of dies by the time your bullets and other supplies show up, PM me. I have a 3-die Lee set in .455 Webley I use to make .455/.45AR and .455/.45ACP BP and light smokeless loads for my shaved Webley. I will lend them to you until you can get your own dies squared away or enough ammo loaded to last a lifetime - that is, if Lee's are okay for your reloading setup.
I did finally find a set of dies. I finally found a seller on ebay that had good feed back and a reasonable price on one of the Lee Die sets forsale. None-the-less I really appreciate the offer.
My .2 cents; if I have shaved Webley, I would use 45 AR brass only. Just to avoid mix up between 45 ACP lighter and standard loads.
BTW, somebody mentioned that he sent Webley cylinder to open chambers on .4525" dia, so standard solid base base bullets could be used. Apparently, groups shrunk considerably. All .455" Webleys have undersized chambers, something like .447"-.450" dia. This was done in order to bump pressure because original load Mk I was made using black powder. That is the reason why standard .455" Webley bullets are hollow base, so they could expand and grab the rifling when exit cylinder.
I am pretty good about keeping my ammo well marked and separated, thankfully I won't have to do that for the Webley in this case,
I have measured the throats on my Webley cylinder and they appear to be about .452 but I plan to cast the throats and bore with Cerrosafe in the near future to confirm those measurement. The solid base bullets I shot (see up thread), shot reasonable well for the age of the revolver. That said I am waiting on a batch of bullet from Matt's bullets that are proper copies of the Mk II hollow based bullet so I am hopeful that the will shoot even more accurately than the current commercial ammo I am shooting.