Off-Beat revolvers

I once owned a Webley-Fosbery 8 shot automatic revolver in .38 acp (9mm x 23). It was quite smooth and capable of placing 8 shots rapidly and accurately. It operated pretty much like any single action auto loading pistol. The hammer cocked it and the firing rotated the cylinder and recocked the hammer for the next round. It was well balanced, if a little on the heavy side.

It was quite similar to the Mauser Zig-Zag automatic revolver.
 
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I hope you have a damned good explanation for 'once owned a Webley-Fosberry'
Probably the most awesome handgun ever known and star of some minor hollywood production to boot.:cool:
 
Colt,

I'd bought the W-F .38 in a group of about a dozen guns from an estate. I was after a Winchester M21 and a 1914 Springfield 1911. The guns were being sold as a lot so I had no choice but to buy all or none.

The other guns were fluff, including the W-F. Kept it awhile for its uniqueness but it never really fit in with my areas of interest. Perhaps had it been in .455 or martially marked I'd have hung onto it.
 
Maurice may be the new official coolest gun ever.
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The barrel alone...inner piece is a section of Douglas Premium rifle barrel in .355" (9mm). Outer sleeve is from a 1980 Honda CB900c - a section of handlebar!

:)

You can see the source handlebar on the ground in this shot, replaced with "flat-tracker type" lower bars. The stock bars turned out to be made of seamless stainless steel.

https://flic.kr/p/c6Cixj
 
The "Maurice" idea seems awfully familiar. Anyone checked with Rollin White lately? I think it is a one off that will go nowhere; it has no real purpose.

As for magazine fed revolvers, how about the Dardick, which really was a magazine fed revolver?

Jim
 
Don't know how "offbeat" some of you may consider this, but I have a nifty French revolver called "Le Formidable." Slightly larger than an Iver Johnson .32 top break, it's chambered for 8mm Lebel.

I have some Fiocchi cartridges, but I haven't gotten enough nerve up yet to shoot it. (Although it is very well made.)
 
How about a Dan Wesson .38.

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Yes a 'Little Dan".

Deaf
 
The Dardick - was that the "Tround" gun? That was a weird, but cool, design. Kind of a firearm version of the Mazda wankel engine.

I don't think of it as a revolver though - but I guess it kind of is.
 
Agula--

The metric designation for the round is 9×23mmSR (SR—Semi Rimmed)
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--Barnes, Frank C. (2006) [1965]. Skinner, Stan, ed. Cartridges of the World (11th ed.). Iola, WI, USA: Gun Digest Books. pp. 328, 338
 
Don't know how "offbeat" some of you may consider this, but I have a nifty French revolver called "Le Formidable." Slightly larger than an Iver Johnson .32 top break, it's chambered for 8mm Lebel.

I have some Fiocchi cartridges, but I haven't gotten enough nerve up yet to shoot it. (Although it is very well made.)
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No, you don't.

What your revolver shoots is called 8MM FRENCH ORDNANCE. It looks like THIS:

8mm_french_O.jpg


8mm Lebel, which is a centerfire RIFLE cartridge, looks like THIS:

Kynoch8_Lebel4.jpg


See the difference?? Remember, ignorance starts with YOU my friend. If anything grinds my gears it's improper nomenclature of firearms and cartridges.
 
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