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#45acp #webley #autorevolver
Published: 2019-08-10 06:28:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 3604; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 0
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Despite using the Webley for a variety of firearms related kitbashes I've never actually drawn one in full. So have a Webley-Fosbery in .45 ACP because who doesn't love a big iron.
As far as canon goes its a domestic production of a foreign-made revolver c. about 1912 or so
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When I was a range safety officer at an indoor facility here in Plano, Texas, I once shot an original .455 Webley with .45 hardball in half-moon clips for a S&W M1917, and it worked like it was meant to shoot that way... real firearms work in mysterious ways, and I have stories about old calibers and cartridge interchangeability that would make your testicles want to hide! One customer brought me his Chinese Tokarev pistol after shooting a single round of 9x19mm Parabellum through it, asking if I could get the darned thing open. His only problem was, the pistol was chambered for 7.62x25mm! He said, "It sounded like a stick of dynamite going off in a bank vault" I think he survived it because our 9mm range ammo had a bare lead base to its jacket, and the core extruded back when the bullet hit the bottleneck of the chamber. When I got the slide open, the bore had a coating in it like alligator skin, or a mudflat on a hot day. I think that's what happens to powder residue at 100,000 psi... Yow!!!
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Interesting story, thanks for sharing.
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I'm a storyteller. It's what I do! Thanks for reading what I sent. I'm also a gunsmith, and I've been enjoying the shooting sports since I was six years old. I'm saturated with gun lore, although there are times when I forget that such things as automatic revolvers (?!) ever existed. What's the virtue of the zigzag-cut cylinder and split frame against a good, old double-action? People try some crazy things! Thank you also for reminding me of an oddball Webley...
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Those are both for the operation of the automatic revolver. Wikipedia has a better description of the operation than I could provide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webley%E…
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Oh, I know it well, although I have never seen the animal in the skin. It seems strange to say it, but Mauser also made a version of this, a much smaller and more delicate revolver for the European civilian market. I forget the cartridge it was chambered for. It had the same split/sliding frame and zigzag cut on the cylinder, allowing the top half of the frame to recoil against the grip half, advancing the cylinder and indexing the next chamber while cocking the hammer for you. Automatic? Yes! It's also a complicated solution to something I don't consider to be a problem. I've grown up with the Smith and Wesson "Hand Ejector" revolver and can hit with one (shooting double action) out to conversational distances. Beyond that, I use my left thumb to cock the hammer, then aim carefully.
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looks a little long for .45ACP cartridge, but the wheelgun looks pretty baller
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Only by a few pixels, really. Think of it as an up-loaded .45 ACP or something.
Thanks, though.
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