Full and half moon clips loaded with .45 ACP and one Semiwadcutter .45 Auto Rim cartridge.
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.
revolver cylinder. Moonclips may either hold an entire cylinder's worth of cartridges together (full moonclip), half a cylinder (half moonclip), or just two...
simultaneously into the cylinder easily (although non-circular types such as half moonclips are very common as well). A mechanism is provided that allows the cartridges...
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such as 9×19mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP (loaded with the aid of Moonclips). The first commercial snubnosed revolver was the six-shot, 3 in (76 mm)...
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than fixed frame revolvers, especially with the aid of a speedloader or moonclip. However, this design is much weaker and cannot handle high pressure rounds...
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action mechanism. The gun has an 18-round cylinder loaded with a type of moonclip, and each barrel has its own firing pin. Using a firing mode selector...
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