.380 Mk2z

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Unless one of the members was in service before 1963 chances for field reports will be slim.

You would be just as well off using the results of incidents using .38spl ammo here in the U.S. Results from a .38 spl w/two inch barrel would also be comparable. The velocity of a .38 from 2" barrel and MK2z from a 4" barrel would be about the same at 800 fps for the standard 158/165 grain bullet in both cases.

Or compare the results, if you can find them, with incidents involving the .38S&W round, which is identical within 7 grains weight to the Mk2z. The 38/200 and the MK2z were parented off the .38 S&W case and they were all issued interchangeably during the War.

I have met only one person that specified that they were shot with the .38 S&W round and that shot was in the leg. He drove himself to the hospital and back home after treatment. His only real comment was that treatment hurt more than being shot.

I do have some experience from years ago with the Webley & Scott revolvers in both 38 and .455. Compared to American revolvers of the S&W and Colt varieties they were brutes to handle and shoot and I always suspected the internals were fabricated from rail road track, especially the mainsprings.

Single action pulls were usually good but accurate double action shooting near impossible. I would only contemplate the use of one as a plinker or as a field gun were single action shooting was the norm. Or where self defense ranges were point blank when using the DA pull.

If you do the background work you will probably discover that there were as many S&W revolvers chambered for the British round as there were W&S and Enfield brands. We even shipped many H&R and Iver Johnson revolvers, cambered for 38S&W, to GB during the War.

Many of the S&W Victory models came back as surplus, had a .38 spl reamer run into their chambers, and were sold for as little as $15 on the U.S. surplus market. Many of the British guns met the same fate. I bought my first .38 Enfield for $12.95 from the back page of an American Rifleman magazine. Those modified models will shoot either 38 S&W, MK2z or .38 special.