Half moon clips?

[leftiye]

Anybody ever seen half or full moon clips for.30 carbine or 32-20, or any of the other .32s? Maybe they could be made?

[Trapshooter]

You might contact Ranch Products. Steve makes quite a few different moon clips and accessories, Midway carries some of the more popular ones.

Trapshooter

[leftiye]

T.S.,
Thanks for the reference. I'm thinking .30 carbine revolter headspaced for using half moon clips. Could use 32-20 cases sized in 30 carbine die and shortened for single feed. Or both could be squeezed down .018" to make straight walled .32 cases of .357magnum length.

[beagle]

It's pretty easy to shorten .32-20 cases so they'll chamber in a ,30 Carbine Ruger. The rim clearance is fine and my gun will even chamber factory .32-20s.

I've shortened about a box and run them through it occasioanlly and it sure eliminated the chambering problems you encounter with .30 Carbine brass.

I recently purchased a Ruger Buckeye .32-20 so I'm shooting straight .32-20 now.

You can do the same trick with .38 Specials in teh Ruger 9mm convertibles. Trim down .38 Special cases and load in 9mm dies./beagle

[monadnock#5]

TK Custom lists 7 gunsmiths that will machine cylinders for moonclips. I don't know if the conversion you're looking at is doable, but one of them could certainly tell you.

http://www.moonclips.com/new.htm