Hello again; I'm back after a long absence from my last post; had a bit of trouble and didn't have much time for anything really. But I think a few of you might remember some of my sandbox questions about guns before; to those who don't I'll get it out of the way at the start: I'm something of a Writer and Artist and also a armchair gun enthusiast, meaning I enjoy them from the angle of not being able to afford them. As such firearms often figure into my works, since I tend to favor a Horror theme, and I like to be as accurate as possible when I employ or alter them for use as a plot device.
Ok, so with the disclaimer out of the way that'll apply to a couple of other threads, I've recently begun working on a story set in England and the European Regions spanning the times of around the 1890's and the early 1920's, with most of the current plot taking place in 1902 to the beginning of WW1. I've done a bit of research but I've got no actual hands on experience, the main character, Harker; an Irish-born Paranormal Investigator in the lines of H.P. Lovecraft's works, uses a customized Webley Mark IV chambered in .455 Webley as his signature sidearm, in addition to a variety of custom-built artillery to help him tackle the hordes of the supernatural, such as a double-barreled shotgun with composite barrels to fire Zirconium incendiary shells.
My biggest problem is finding comparable ballistics and power ratios for the period firearms I'm using, particularly the Webley's now defunct .445 cartridge, I don't have any comparable round that's in modern production to look up for a impact and knockdown reference. I understand the theory, It's a heavy .45 caliber slug afterall, that's going to do some serious damage and hit like a speeding Buick besides. On top of that, I'm unsure as to what kind of modifications one could have made to said Webley Mk. IV in the time-period, I'd like to make use of some more supernatural ammunitions; the iconic Silver Bullets and such, but again, I'm just an enthusiast and not an expert, so I'd like to make my embellishments laced with enough truth for them to be entertaining.
This is a sandbox scenario of course, but what kind of power and performance does this pistol and it's defunct cartridge have? What kind of things can mimic a lead slug's weight and deformation enough to be used as a 'special' load? I've run into these difficulties more in this then modern-set fiction, as there's less really available technology in the 1902 time period then there is now. It's an alternate-history story though, so it's possible to throw a few engineering-based modern ideas back into the past to make them seem sort of 'magic' or advanced in the classical Pulp Fiction ideal, such as JHP slugs and anti-armor penetrators; so feel free to offer those sorts of suggestions too; I assure you there's more then one of you that knows a great deal more about that part of gunsmithing then I!
Thanks in advance, but hopefully this'll be a fun little sandbox question to lighten the day with.
Ok, so with the disclaimer out of the way that'll apply to a couple of other threads, I've recently begun working on a story set in England and the European Regions spanning the times of around the 1890's and the early 1920's, with most of the current plot taking place in 1902 to the beginning of WW1. I've done a bit of research but I've got no actual hands on experience, the main character, Harker; an Irish-born Paranormal Investigator in the lines of H.P. Lovecraft's works, uses a customized Webley Mark IV chambered in .455 Webley as his signature sidearm, in addition to a variety of custom-built artillery to help him tackle the hordes of the supernatural, such as a double-barreled shotgun with composite barrels to fire Zirconium incendiary shells.
My biggest problem is finding comparable ballistics and power ratios for the period firearms I'm using, particularly the Webley's now defunct .445 cartridge, I don't have any comparable round that's in modern production to look up for a impact and knockdown reference. I understand the theory, It's a heavy .45 caliber slug afterall, that's going to do some serious damage and hit like a speeding Buick besides. On top of that, I'm unsure as to what kind of modifications one could have made to said Webley Mk. IV in the time-period, I'd like to make use of some more supernatural ammunitions; the iconic Silver Bullets and such, but again, I'm just an enthusiast and not an expert, so I'd like to make my embellishments laced with enough truth for them to be entertaining.
This is a sandbox scenario of course, but what kind of power and performance does this pistol and it's defunct cartridge have? What kind of things can mimic a lead slug's weight and deformation enough to be used as a 'special' load? I've run into these difficulties more in this then modern-set fiction, as there's less really available technology in the 1902 time period then there is now. It's an alternate-history story though, so it's possible to throw a few engineering-based modern ideas back into the past to make them seem sort of 'magic' or advanced in the classical Pulp Fiction ideal, such as JHP slugs and anti-armor penetrators; so feel free to offer those sorts of suggestions too; I assure you there's more then one of you that knows a great deal more about that part of gunsmithing then I!
Thanks in advance, but hopefully this'll be a fun little sandbox question to lighten the day with.