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  British Revolvers
Notes: This is sort of a generic class of personal defense revolver originated by Webley in the early part of the century; the Bulldog was one of those, though they went by many names.
It introduced a number of improvements which later became standard on other Webley revolvers, and it was widely sold to British officers and travelers going to the wilder parts of the kingdom.
WG is generally said to stand for "Webley Government," but some say it stands for "Webley-Green," after the inventor of the stirrup lock.
www.pmulcahy.com /revolvers/british_revolvers.htm   (1236 words)

  
 THR - Who makes new Top-Break revolvers?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A top break revolver is reliable but is not as strong as a hand ejector (swing-out.) A Webley converted from.455 to.45 ACP is being shot at proof test pressures for the model.
.44 Russian is a fl powder cartridge of about 1880 and is sure as hell not interchangeable with.44 Magnum, except that you could shoot Russians in a Magnum for light target loading.
It was designed as 7-shooter in 44 and other calibers, but suppose to be used also as top break single shot for cartridges from 30-30 family.
www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=79877   (2508 words)

  
 The Forgotten Forty-Fours
It was not a true.44-caliber, using a bullet of.434-inch diameter in a rimmed centerfire case about.91-inch in length.
.44 American cartridges used bullets of the so-called "heeled" type, where the bullet shank was smaller than the rest of the slug and fit into a bullet diameter-sized case.
By the late 1870s and early 1880s,.44 cartridges in widespread use were almost exclusively confined to the.44-40 and.44 Russian.
www.gunsandammomag.com /ga_handguns/forgotten_44s   (1278 words)

  
 eclecticism: Jason Webley Halloween Show 2004
Jason Webley Halloween Deathday 2004 Bootleg: laurachandae was kind enough to send me a copy of her recording of Jason Webley's Halloween show, so I've converted it to.mp3 and have posted it on my webserver.
Jason Webley Deathday 2003: Last night was Jason Webley's Deathday concert.
Jason Webley Birth Day - Only Just Beginning CD release: My birthday weekend started off with this year's Birth Day for Jason Webley, his annual 'resurrection' show, this year combined with the CD release party for Only Just Beginning.
www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2004/10/jason_webley_ha.html   (422 words)

  
 Methuen trips Billerica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
What the Hall of Fame coach did have was a stiff wind at his offense's back and a strong-armed quarterback on moth balls ready to play the role of hero.
The Rangers tied the score in the third on one of their five fourth-down attempts to keep a drive alive.
Webley hit Kinneen on a pass over the middle and the tight end spun his way into the end zone from 21 yards out.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19981003/SP_002.htm   (654 words)

  
 Webley sights and scope mounts for air guns
Made entirely in Webleys Birmingham factory these brilliant new mounts are CNC machined to give you the very best precision fixings for your scopes 97 and at prices you can afford!
Webley HOTDOT red dot sight suitable for rifles or pistols, (ideal for CO2 handguns) battery powered, fully adjustable.
Webley SPEEDPOINT red dot sight (no battery required) For very fast target acquisition, fully adjustable for elevation and windage, light weight and does not creep.
www.airpistol.co.uk /webley_sights.htm   (336 words)

  
 The Forgotten Forty-Fours
The guns involved were varied, although most were variations on the short Webley revolvers.
Actually, the idea makes a great deal of sense today, as we are beginning to realize that a warp-speed whiz-bang light bullet load may not be the best fight-stoppers after all.
It was a troubled design that suffered from a host of problems, but when it was working well, it gave the shooter an accurate and powerful handgun unequaled by anything else at the time.
www.gunsandammomag.com /ga_handguns/forgotten_44s/index1.html   (1171 words)

  
 CRICKET LOVELY CRICKET
Tom Webley, batting at No. 6, hits 7 fours in his 36.
Jon Webley makes his highest score for DWCC as he and Nick Jones share a record-equalling opening stand of 128 – a prelude to a ruthless Simon Jones assault.
Tom Webley is once again too good for the opposition, finishing the season with the highest ever batting average.
homepages.tesco.net /~jasrem/dwcchig8.HTM   (580 words)

  
 The Gun Zone -- Webley-Fosbery Automatic-Revolver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This design dates from just before World War One, and was never very widely distributed, although a few were sold in the U.S., and the British Home Guard must've had a couple of them in stock during the Second World War.
The introduction of the smokeless powders led to the introduction of the shorter cased Mk II, or "CARTRIDGE, S.A., BALL, PISTOL, WEBLEY, CORDITE, MARK II", introduced in 1898 together with the Mk III cartridge.
Pressing on a pivoting lever on the side of its upper receiver releases its barrel-and-cylinder assembly, which then tilts up and forward ("breaks open") on a bottom-front pivot, and simultaneously ejects from all six cylinder chambers at once.
www.thegunzone.com /webley-fosbery.html   (1566 words)

  
 ric revolver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Webley RIC was a British heavy revolver produced from 1868 to 1939 and adopted by the Royal...
The Webley RIC was produced in.442,.450,.455 and.476 calibres...
WEBLEY RIC revolver, for the Canadian mounted Police, 6 shots, 450 cal...
www.1handguns-online.com /46/ric-revolver.html   (648 words)

  
 Panther's Refuge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But interest in the past has been renewed in recent years with the discovery of two of Long-Hair Jim's old guns, buried in the yard of the homestead.
44 and Webley.45 which the outlaw once carried with him while he and the James Gang pillaged the American West.
Albers she had buried the pistols, and more than thirty years later she and her brother dug them up with the help of a metal detector.
duvessa.org /personal/jg/long_hair.shtml   (699 words)

  
 THE CARTRIDGE COLLECTOR
Developed in the late 1860s for the Tranter revolver, it was soon chambered in Webley and Enfield revolvers.
This is essentially the same cartridge that was manufactured in the United States beginning about 1875 as the.44 Webley.
Even with one end flap missing, edges split and flaked, and those not quite transparent pieces of tape across one end of the top label and down the remaining end flap, I believe this battered United States Cartridge Company smokeless.22 short rimfire box is still a keeper.
www.oldammo.com /march05.htm   (619 words)

  
 Alan's Gun Collection
44 Webley is a different name for the same.442 RIC cartridge, 38 Webleys can shoot 38 Short Colt, thirty-twos can shoot 32 Short Colt, and forty-fives can shoot 45 Short Colt in place of 45 Webley.
Obsolete only by modern standards the 44 Webley is still a powerful round that fires 200 grains lead at 715fps with 230ftlbs force.
Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer (former wartime Major General) is said to have carried a pair of English made 44 cal Webley RIC Bulldog revolvers during his 7th Cavalry's 1876 internal incident with well armed civilian plainsmen.
www.geocities.com /alancook.geo/alanguns.htm   (5659 words)

  
 webley - Auctions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Webley and Son 1877 Gun and Implement Catalog - $12.95
LP Hawaii Calls Webley Edwards Exotic Instrumentals - $3.00
Holster for Colt 1911 or Webley and Scott - $55.00
www.cereva.com /s/webley/index.html   (267 words)

  
 Panther's Refuge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He told those who asked why he spent his money on ammunition that in the notorious gangs he rode with "you had to shoot fast and straight".
"Several times I have seen him shoot the head off a prairie chicken with his 44 Colt revolver," one friend wrote after his death.
Other friends recorded times he cleared the streets of Lacombe with his gunplay after he'd left the James Gang to seek his fortune in North Dakota and Alberta.
duvessa.org /personal/jg/man_as.shtml   (863 words)

  
 Historic Firearm of the Month, January 2002
V was the standard British service pistol, and was supplanted in 1915 by a product improved variant known as the Webley Mk.
The top-break Webleys were well designed, reliable, and accurate arms whose only fault was that they could not be made rapidly enough to fill the demand created by a burgeoning British military.
The martial.455 Colts and Smith and Wesson revolvers are highly collectible, as both examples of the epitome of the art of the revolver, and important historical artifacts in their own right.
www.cruffler.com /historic-january02.html   (2206 words)

  
 Webley Hawk Resources
If you have a picture of Webley Hawk, please click this link to send it.
Toledo craftsmen have produced a collection worthy of the Webley & Scott reputation for excellence and integrity.
The Webley killed uncountable squirrels from Maryland togreat when Last year when I sold the WebleyHawk 177 with a Beeman 4x scope for $150 to a friend
www.reviewcentre.com /resources-1025.html   (207 words)

  
 Firearm Identification & Values
Approximately 850,000 were manufactured between 1883 and 1940.
Unfortunately, the correct year of manufacture cannot be accurately determined.
A standard powder charge for the.44-40 will not be safe since the original.44 Webley cartridge was loaded with 15 to 19 grains of fl powder (the.44-40 WCF was loaded for 40 grains).
www.gunsandammomag.com /values/values0501   (1345 words)

  
 IJ FAQ chronology (0001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With the introduction of the solid-frame double action revolvers in 1878, the four frame sizes and serial numbering method of the earlier handguns were carried over.
These DA revolvers were available in centerfire calibres also, and in this series the.41 rimfire was replaced entirely by the.44 Bulldog and.44 Webley centerfire cartridges.
This is yet another revolver design which, though it started production under the Johnson & Bye partnership, continued to be produced by Iver Johnson Arms (& Cycle Works) for a number of years.
www2.arkansas.net /~sws1/ijfaq001.htm   (1679 words)

  
 This is topic S&W No.3 in 44WCF? in forum SASS Wire at The SASS Wire.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This was followed by the.44 Russian-chambered guns, which included what is now called the ".44 Old Old Model Russian", "Old Model Russian", and the "New Model Russian", which is what Navy Arms (Uberti's) Russian is patterned after.
that was converted from an outside-lube heeled bullet to the inside lubed 44Rus, wich was then the grand-dad to the 44 Special and 44RM ctgs, the latter of which (44RM) being my principle Cowboy Ammo.
So failing to obtain a New Model No.3, which evidently there is not a Navy Arms replica for that Two Flints will need to go with the Schofield in "45 Colt" and shoot 45S&W in it and then go with an 1873 Winchester rifle in 44WCF.
my.net-link.net /~napfn/SW_Model_3_info.html   (1512 words)

  
 GunBroker.com Message Forums - American Bulldog Pistols
Posted - 04/16/2005 : 10:00:41 AM the captain's information is very good except for a couple of minor points.
there were no 41 centerfire calibers manufactured the large bore offering was 44 webley.
The Winchester catalog says it is for Webley and Bull Dog {Double Action} Revolvers....The American Bulldog is a Single Action, Spur Trigger, Solid Frame 5 shooter.....You have the Your Bulldogs Confused...We're talking about the American Bulldog......Not the Webley Bulldog........................
forums.gunbroker.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=153399   (431 words)

  
 .442 TranterMUNICION.ORG
.442 Webley /.442 R.I.C. / DWM 221 / GR 909 /.442-13-220 Tranter /.442 British Tranter /.442 Revolver CF /.442 Tranter /.442 British Revolver / 10.5x17R Kurz / 10.85x18.80R / 10.9x17.5 R / 11.2x17R /.442 Short Tranter
Cartucho diseñado en 1868 para el revólver Webley con que se dotó al "Royal Irish Constabulary", tuvo una gran difusión en Europa con revólveres fabricados por Enfield, Tranter y Webley.
se produjo entre 1875 y 1939 bajo la designación de.44 Webley.
www.municion.org /Tranter/442Tranter.htm   (161 words)

  
 THE PROFESSIONALS: Episode Guide
Harefield Hospital doubled as the military base from which the Irish group steal the weapons.
More of a "budgetry efficiency", really: the van the gang use to hi-jack the police station in Windsor is the same van Doyle uses as a mobile HQ (thanks to John Hammond).
According to Bodie, Turkel's mob have made off with.44-calibre Webley revolvers and Armalite rifles, yet the villains use Brownings, Colts and British Army SLRs in the subsequent siege.
www.mark-1.co.uk /Professionals/a03.htm   (1528 words)

  
 The Encyclopedia of UK and Irish Diplomacy Zines (A-C) by Stephen Agar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Relaunched in Sept 84, keeping to a purist Dip formula.
Niall Litton's Fellow Traveller joined as a subzine at issue 54, Boojum joined as a subzine at issue 63 (and disappeared after issue 64...), John Webley's Serendipity joined at issue 74.
Stayed a reliable purist Dip zine, never making the big time (or the Top Ten in the Zine Poll, to Paul's disappointment).
www.diplomacy-archive.com /resources/postal/encyclopedia.htm   (5522 words)

  
 List of handgun cartridges -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(Click link for more info and facts about 44 Webley) 44 Webley (.442 RIC)
(Click link for more info and facts about.45 Webley).45 Webley
(Click link for more info and facts about.455 Webley).455 Webley (.455 Webley Mk I,.455 Revolver,.455 Colt,.455 Colt Mk I) (Click link for more info and facts about.455 Webley Mk II).455 Webley Mk II (.455 Revolver Mk II,.455 Colt Mk II,.455 Eley)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/List_of_handgun_cartridges.htm   (1089 words)

  
 The Superhero Hype! Boards - Which adventurer do you like better?
Indiana Jones` only accessories are a.44 Webley Revolver that is always out of ammo and a Bullwhip of albiet ever-changing length.
Even if you narrow it down to just the guns; Bond`s Walther PPK is a far better weapon than Indy`s Webley.
But that`s the point I`ve been trying to make: You cannot compare Indiana Jones with James Bond.
superherohype.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-153185.html   (1313 words)

  
 Literature Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are excellent tips on how to get the most accuracy from spring piston airguns - ranging from how to hold a powerful air rifle during firing to various tune ups.
Unfortunately there isn't yet a good book covering the wonderful Webley air rifles, but the very rich collecting field provided by the wide range of Webley air pistols is beautifully presented by Gordon Bruce (2000).
The noted airgun collector Bill Johnson (2003) has expended tremendous effort to produce the definitive work on the Bailey and Columbian Air Rifles (often referred to as the Heilprin airguns).
www.beemans.net /Literature%20Review.htm   (6195 words)

  
 Jason Webley - Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Listen to music charts for Jason Webley - Against the Night, Jason Webley - Dance While The Sky Crashes Down, Jason Webley - Icarus, Jason Webley - 2 AM, Jason Webley - Drinking Song
We don't have an image for Jason Webley yet.
1,500 different people have listened to Jason Webley.
www.audioscrobbler.com /music/Jason%20Webley   (118 words)

  
 Absolute Write Water Cooler - Revolvers with silencers attached.
Later, some folks developed a liking for the snubby.44 Special due to low muzzle flash, reduced recoil and a solid kinetic energy release at short distances.
Some of the forgotten.44s (and a couple of resurrected ones) include: (from left to right).44-40,.44 Remington,.44 Colt,.44 Merwin and Hulbert,.44 Russian,.44 American,.44 Webley and.44 Bull Dog
Finally, as James R. mentioned, the Thompson Contender can be chambered in a hellaciously wide range of calibers (75 to date) from small varmit rounds to the nasty 45-70 Goverment.
www.absolutewrite.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3111   (4001 words)

  
 clayart - thread 'thoughts on art / craft - or, raswon , reaching up,'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
What did Garfield say when he was shot?
.44 Webley-Scott or Addams or watever the hell it was,
People say lots of things...allways, it is a signal call of
www.potters.org /subject71254.htm   (1791 words)

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