The Smith & Wesson Model 625, is a six-round, double-action revolver chambered for the .45 ACP using moon clips. The Model 625 is an improved stainless steel version Smith & Wesson Model 22 and a direct descendant of the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolver first issued during World War I.
Smith & Wesson Model 625
Full and half moon clips loaded with .45 ACP and one Truncated Cone .45 Auto Rim cartridges.
Right side view
Left side view of a S&W Mountain Gun M625-6 .45 LC revolver, 4" barrel, with 250 gr. .45 LC rounds and a speedloader filled with home defense 250 gr. XTP
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, half a cylinder, 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.
Full and half moon clips loaded with .45 ACP and one Semiwadcutter .45 Auto Rim cartridge.
Smith & Wesson 1917 with .45 ACP moon clips and two auto rim cartridges
Rare Ruger Speed Six variant in 9mm Parabellum, which uses half-moon clips to chamber the rimless cartridges
Smith and Wesson Model 625 .45 ACP moon clips.
