This gun got the standard treatment of converted ex-British models, shortening, nickeling, plastic stocks. So to NOT also have been converted to .38 Special would make it a very odd bird.This one has not been bored through. the chamber depth measures .775 " which corresponds to a .38 S&W.
That does make it unusual. Converting the chambers was the first thing normally done to these. There are some that were just converted and not otherwise changed; the opposite like yours, all the cosmetic changes but not converted, I haven‘t encountered before. The box of .38 Short Colt with it is interesting too. By the time the gun was modified, the Short was much less common than even the .38 S&W.Yes I have. That is how I measured the cylinder depth. See photo.
