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By Robert Maze

The Webley .455in carrier revolver is one of the strongest top-break revolvers ever produced. First followed in 1887, in quite a few marques it was once the standard-issue provider pistol for British and Commonwealth military for almost fifty years; later models in .38in calibre went directly to see additional carrier in international warfare II and past, in addition to in a bunch of law-enforcement roles all over the world into the Seventies. built to provide British carrier team of workers the facility to incapacitate their rivals in ‘small wars' all over the world, the Webley used the ambitious - and debatable - .455in cartridge, a version of which was once often called the ‘manstopper'. clients stumbled on it provided strong penetration and perfect preventing strength with purely gentle balk - certainly, it was once rated improved to the united states .45 Colt in preventing energy. that includes particularly commissioned full-colour art and close-up images, this is often the compelling tale of the Webley revolver, the strong pistol that observed provider around the British Empire and all through global wars.

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Of these, the most common variety had a brass or gunmetal hilt, whereas the rarer type had a steel one. The final product did make the Mk VI appear a fearsome tool for attack, and Tracy thought it ‘a thoroughly practical idea, and is of value in hand-to-hand fighting’ (Tracy 1918: 115; he mistakenly thought that the Pritchard–Greener bayonet was produced by P. Webley & Son). Even so, the pistol bayonet was not a commercial success, with probably with fewer than 200 produced and even fewer being sold (Pegler 1993: 163–73).

455in Webley Mk VI, the bomber has leap-frogged around him, to the corner of the traverse, ready to protect the party should an alert be sounded. com turn, the Prideaux simply pushed, but the Quick Loader only needed to be dropped into place. The argument for why one design might have predominated over another is academic; the reality is that Prideaux’s loader was eventually accepted into service by the War Department in 1918. 455in revolver (Colts, Smith & Wessons, WGs and even the Fosbery) quickly in difficult conditions or in the dark, and both allowed these revolvers to compete effectively with the early automatics in speed of loading.

It is not beyond the realm of possibility that these Webley ‘carbines’ could have been produced on a one-off basis, locally, by armourers at the front, for those who desired such a weapon. To this end there appears to be at least one example. THE INTER-WAR YEARS: PENNY-PINCHING AND PISTOL PRACTICE For the military in the years immediately after the war, the practical methods of pistol training that had been taught in specialized schools formed the framework within which revolver development would proceed.

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