Any love for Webleys?
So, inspired by the posts about Broomhandles (I have two) and Nambus...
I do love my Lugers (my first love) but my Webley collection is far more significant (something like 8 Webleys to 4 Lugers) . Here's a Webley Mk I** from WWI (Mk I lower with a 1916 dated Mk VI cylinder and upper and a 6" barrel). She's still in the original .455 with some sort of arsenal black paint.
Fun to shoot and engaging in a homely way.
...and here's my Webley Mk V with 1914 date (sadly the cylinder was faced off for .45 ACP/.45 Auto Rim but I do shoot it with Fiocchi .455 rounds using a headspacing ring I acquired from another Webley fan).
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Michael
Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.')
'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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