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I'm about to buy one (in S Africa - for the moment - we're still allowed to collect and use firearms). What a lovely classic. I wonder why this ejection method and calibre were not continued in production. I believe these guns are extraodinarily durable and tolerant of adverse conditions.
I know I’m a bit late but the reason top break revolvers fell out of fashion was because it was believed to create a weaker frame. As for the ejector, I suspect it added to the complexity of the mechanics
@Canal Tudão the interesting thing is that this is a British revolver and England has some of the strictest gun laws. You on the other hand, just know this, the president of Brazil might suck, but the women are beautiful!!! You know what I mean.
Until comparatively recently was hard to make these designs take fast cartridges like 357. Modern steel has changed that though. It's why they are traditionally heavy bullet subsonic.
Finally! I've been looking everywhere for a ballistics test of the old Webley revolvers, in particular of the .455 Webley cartridge. I only wish this were done with clear ballistics gel so we could have seen the terminal effects of the round.
@Plutonius X.... If you were shot in the ass with this revolver firing its "Light load" you eyes would be watering and you would be crying for you mummy.... Now get back to Call Of Duty on your games console
You are absolutely correct. Look at the crap flying out of the barrel behind the bullet. It is burned flam, a special powder which used to displace the charge in a case to decrease bullet's velocity and lower the burning temperatures in a chamber. Hence, it is lightly loaded ammo, which actually makes sense (safety reasons) since its being used in an old gun like this.
The one thing that keeps the Webley from absolute greatness is its trigger. I say this as the former owner of a Mk. VI Webley. Former because the trigger was so heavy it prompted me eventually to sell the revolver. Everything else about the revolver is great. It has a decent, effective cartridge. It's ergonomics (apart from the trigger) are outstanding. It has excellent sights, especially for the period -- this was an era where sights were typically awful, as point shooting was advocated at closer rangers; but the Webley has excellent sights -- quite good even by modern standards. It has an excellent, hand-filling grip that stays planted in the hand, at a time when American revolvers had very skinny grips that slipped around in the hand when shooting double action, because they'd been designed for single-action, bullseye shooting. But that awful, heavy trigger really almost ruins the gun. If you could keep everything else about this revolver the same, and give it the trigger of a Smith & Wesson, it would be just about perfect.
Agreed. But another potential weakness was the fact that it has a leaf-type mainspring. These were very well made and _shouldn't_ give any trouble, but they can become brittle with age and sometimes break. This happened to me with a Webley-manufactured No 2 Mk I*.
@Glow in the dark Bus Driver The Nazis actually loosened gun laws, it was previous elected governments that made the laws stricter. The only thing the Nazis did was restrict the rights for Jews to own firearms, the actual white Germans had it way better off in terms of firearms than they did prior to the Nazis. Also, for collection purposes the Section 7 is perfectly adequate
@@thomashassall96 Mu country has better gun laws than the U. S. and WAY less crime and gun violence.Only a third world country like the U.S. would have more gun related deaths last year than Syria a country at war.
This is a really good video! I love the slow motion part and the focus on the firing pin striking the primer. Immaculate! This was very entertaining overall. I love old revolvers like this and this is a great video! 👏
I've never fired a Webley, but based on this footage, it looks to me like it's impossible to get your grip any higher than what is shown here, do to the design of the handle and the hammer spur. The lower the grip compared to the barrel, the greater the torque, and the more difficult the recoil control is. I do however like the design feature of making the breaking of the barrel the ejection method.
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I have a 1915 made Webley MK VI. Ammo is hard to come by, only Fiocchi makes factory ammo for it now. This gun is surprisingly accurate. I get 2 1\2 inch groups at 25 yards. A fine military pistol. I also own a Webley MKIV in 38/200, an SMLE no1 MK III* rifle and a Sten MKII SMG (legal machine gun here). Britain really makes some fine Military arms.
Hello RA. Came across this video which is a great slow motion of the MK VI firing, however it demonstrates the issue I used to have of lot's of unburned propellant powder which you can see ejected from the barrel following the initial firing. This is due to the relative small amounts of powder which lies quite low in the large diameter .455 case which would originally have used black powder. In order to achieve a successful full burn of the reloaded rounds I used Trail Boss which are little discs of powder so hence packing out the case more fully without over charging the case, try it you'll be impressed!
Retired military and law enforcement and Webley owner (have had three over the years). Have qualified with the Webleys at law enforcement shooting ranges, just for fun. Used the ones modified for .45 ACP on six-round moon clips for reloading speed. The Webleys are old and generally slower reloading than automatics, but still perfectly adequate weapons. Only problem is their size -- impractical as concealed-carry arms.
There seems to be a excessively large cylinder to barrel gap on that revolver, i can see through the gap plainly. It should only be a few thousands of an inch.
Shame you missed out the Webley's best feature, namely that it could be speed loaded far quicker than any other revolver and nearly all semi-autos.In that regard the Webley was ahead of it's time and never beaten.
U r right we had webley revolvers in our family of army officers and I have webley copy of indian ordanance revolver of 32 long which is easily available in India.
+TheChosenZebra In the UK you do not need a licence to own a deactivated weapon, nor do you need one to own a gun of obsolete caliber, unless you have ammunition for it. You will need a certificate of deactivation however to legally prove it has been deactivated.
NO licence is needed in the UK. Just make sure you have the deactivation certificate per the most recent legal requirements, which will partially ruin the look of the firearm. If you are not located in the UK, check with your local police. Plenty of info available online. September 2017.
If loaded with Six rounds and the hammer in the non single action position, just in the normal rest position , could you get discharge if you dropped the pistol on a hard surface like road and it landed on the hammer, could that set the pistol off ? or is there a device to stop that happening ? thanks
Answer from Jonathan Ferguson - Curator of Firearms. The answer is ‘no’ - Webley revolvers had rebounding hammers like a modern revolver. That is, the hammer falls and fires the gun, but as soon as the trigger is released, the hammer moves back a short distance, away from the primer. There is a mechanical block to prevent it moving forward unless it is cocked, or the double-action trigger is pulled. This video shows how a modern revolver accomplishes the same thing; the Webley is similar; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S9ixC34PaKk.html
Sometimes I see people leaving one chamber of this revolver empty after manually loading the bullets into the other ones, but I never understood why. I'd appreciate if anyone explains it to me. Thanks.
It's either a habit from firing single action revolvers that are generally unsafe to carry with the hammer on a live primer, or it's a safety precaution, due to the old age of most of these revolvers, it's theoretically possible for the safety that prevents the firing pin to rest on a primer to have been made non-functional for some reason, making it unsafe to load fully. This is at least possible with the Webley-Fosbery, as demonstrated by Ian from Forgotten Weapons.
@@TheMadalucard If you think of the Colt SIngle Action Army (aka gunfighters' delight) the firing pin rests on a percussion cap if all six chambers are loaded. If the hammer gets a hard knock, or the pistol is dropped, the impact can fire off a round. For that reason some users would always leave the hammer resting on an empty chamber, detected by touch as the hammer then sits completely flush with the frame.
Likely due to Revolvers being an obsolete concept in general. Quickly loading 6 more rounds doesn't mean much when you can quickly load 17 in a semi auto
My question is why were the Brits still using this when we used the M1911, the Germans had the P38 and the Luger, the Russkies had the TT33, and even the Japanese had the Type 14 and Type 94 Nambu. . . England still just had to use a Dinosaur aged revolver made in 1887.
Because pistols have a very low priority in military circles. They really have not much use for soldiers. Only officers and MPs really carried them regularly and officers could purchase their own automatics if they wanted to. Senior officers are supposed to be issuing orders, not shooting at enemy and if officers are lowly enough in rank to be in a position that meant actually shooting at the enemy, they were better off issued with a rifle or submachine gun, although at the start of both World wars, junior officers only had pistols as defensive weapons, a lesson that had to be learned. Other ranks that could carry a pistol such as truck drivers or artillery men would be issued SMGs such as the STEN or in the case of the US army, the .30 carbine. The Webley was reliable, tough and has a round that had good “knock down” characteristics, ie it reliably killed or incapacitated enemy. So much so that German soldiers liked them as souvenirs. British soldiers were also issued various Smith & Wesson and Colt revolvers in .455 Eley and later in the war started getting the FN Browning GP35 9mm which became the standard issue British service pistol.
@Pappy Tron I think I am wrong, are you allowed to own this revolver in the UK? I think I might have overlooked because I know that a lot of concealable weapons are illegal in the UK, sorry If I am wrong.
