Webley RIC .450cal: Any info would be great!

DavidJayUden · 10-16-2013, 11:21 AM

I still have an Army & Navy .450 Nitro double rifle. It is built on a standard action, perfect in every way, but lacking a bit of the engraving commonly seen on these rifles. I even have the "import license" paperwork when the Brit. soldier took it and exactly 21 rounds of Kynoch ammo. into Kenya in 1928. Many years later a writer nemed Howard French featured this exact rifle in the 1989 Gun Digest article, "Double Rifles Had Glamour".
Anyway, Army & Navy arms were certainly high quality, generally made by the big gunmakers and branded for A&N distribution.
dju

10-16-2013, 11:21 AM	#3
DavidJayUden Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,047 Thanks: 578 Thanked 1,414 Times in 887 Posts	I still have an Army & Navy .450 Nitro double rifle. It is built on a standard action, perfect in every way, but lacking a bit of the engraving commonly seen on these rifles. I even have the "import license" paperwork when the Brit. soldier took it and exactly 21 rounds of Kynoch ammo. into Kenya in 1928. Many years later a writer nemed Howard French featured this exact rifle in the 1989 Gun Digest article, "Double Rifles Had Glamour". Anyway, Army & Navy arms were certainly high quality, generally made by the big gunmakers and branded for A&N distribution. dju