I remember when I was a kid looking through my mums mail order catalogue you could actually buy webley/Scott air rifles on the drip even shotguns ah good old days 😉
My mother bought me a Relum off the catalogue 50 years ago, I remember well the HW 35s and the other German brand starting with an F can't spell it or say it haha, I used to long for a high quality German rifle, now I got 9 35s and loads of others 🤪
Good to see you reviewing and testing the classics as well as the modern rifles. Same pellet valve mechanism as my old BSA AirSporter, though that was a heavy old lump.😆
Chris looks like the super target with the two small holes at the back to fit a diopeter sight i had one but could never get that target sight to put on their a lovely gun i have read years ago that webley lost money on every airgun they ever made i believe that just look at the workmanship
I was looking at one of these on Friday, lovely looking rifles, didn't come away with it but I must admit I find the old British made stuff alluring. I had an old BSA Meteor MK1 (1959) for a while and regret selling it.
Birmingham Webleys were always well engineered, they had the best bluing, I've just got a Mk1 Vulcan so from around 1979, I've tuned it, it's now very accurate and little recoil, good rifle for the time.
l have owned two of these air rifles one in the late fifties and the early seventies. The Webley mk 3 was the ''Go To'' rifle during that time, apart from maybe the BSA air Sporter that had a similar cocking and loading mechanism. The idea of the undercover cocking and tap loading was that the barrel remain absolutely ridged, not being part of the cocking system..By the way the cocking lever should not drop when the rifle is fired.. These were precision made air rifles with no pressed steel parts or plastic..Beautifully made English rifles.
Looks interesting. Have an old Umarex LG14 with a simular mechanism. It‘s from the 70‘s and built from FEG in Hungary under license. I only can imaging how hard it is to cock the gun with that short lever. 😂
