Moon Clips for the 646

[DragonFire]

Does anyone know where I can buy moon clips for the S&W 646? That's the .40 cal L-frame. The S&W has them for over $4 each, Brownell's has them for about $3.80 each, and I found a site alscuston.com that has some listed for an L frame but I can't be sure they'll fit a 646 for around $2.40 ea. Rimz moon clips aren't available yet.


The one's for my 610 are only in the $1 each range. I figure there's got to be a better price out there somewhere. I'd even be willing to buy a couple of dozen or more if it would help bring the price down.

Any ideas?

 

[ChristopherG]

TK custom, aka moonclips.com

Still not as cheap as the 10mm or 45s; but they're the same clips S&W issues for less than they charge.

 

[Joe A]

Hey DF,

Did you decide on the 646?

I was hoping to shoot your new 327.

See you next week.

 

[DragonFire]

I've decided

I just couldn't find a .357 that really suited me. I looked at everything Smith currently offers and a few older models. That's not to say that I didn't see some nice revolvers, but none were what I really wanted. I happened to see on the tkcustom site that they had a few guns for sale and one was a 646.

It's a .40 L-Frame, 6 shot revolver with a titanium cylinder. I checked around the internet and found one on Gunbroker.com. So I made a bid and got one, NIB, for $520. Hopefully, they've received a copy of Stu's FFL and are mailing it out to him today or tomorrow.

I almost didn't get it due to the price of the moon clips (how can they possibly be 4 or 5 times what I paid for my 610 moon clips), but I couldn't resist.

So does this mean you don't want to shoot the 646?

 

[Joe A]

Silly question.

Of course I want to shoot it!

Think you'll have it by next week or will I have to wait?

Congrats on a neat gun!!!

Joe

 

[355sigfan]

What kind of accuracy are you getting from your646. My 610 hates 40sw loads.
Pat

 

[DragonFire]

355SigFan: I haven't gotten the to fire the gun yet, waiting on the permit to come back, but my 610 is pretty decent with shooting .40. It's definitely better with 10's.

 

[grendelbane]

My 3" 610 loves .40 S&W! At least, it loves one box of reloads I put together. 180 grain JHP over a maximum charge of 231. Not the ideal recipe perhaps, but it shoots to point of aim. I just sort of stumbled across it. I have seen factory 180 .40 S&W shoot 3" low at 25 yards. Don't ask me to explain the difference.

Most every combination in 10 mm brass I have tried works well also.