What Pythons looked like in rhe 1890's
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Colorado Redneck
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FrankenMauser
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Oh, man. I can't believe they photographed that without cleaning all of the vomit off. The whole rear end it covered in it!Colorado Redneck said:
That's like a nickel-plated Nambu.
lewwallace
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Colorado Redneck
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LOL---Must be a Ford man?
Edit--FM--In looking again at that Chevy photo, you might be right!! Must have been after Prom Night---Didn't see that before now--HA!
FrankenMauser
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I try not to become a 'fanboy' for anything.
...But I tend to collect a lot of firearms from the same manufacturers, and have a love of old 'ugly' firearms.
When it comes to vehicles, my favorite is a '53 or '54 Ford sedan. (Preferably in Killarny Green / Seahaze Green two-tone.)
The 'Chebbies' are classics, and I'm glad that so many people keep as many as possible on the road. I just like the Fords better.
...But I'm not opposed to other options. There's a '70 Nova in my garage; and a Dogde, a Pontiac, a Ford, and a Toyota in the driveway.
The swing out sideplate of the Type 26 is not unique to revolvers of that era; the Model 1898 Austrian Rast-Gasser and the Russian Nagant both use the same basic system. The Japanese may have copied it from an earlier Rast-Gasser design, but of course we are not likely to ever know for sure.
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The .455 Webley was a good manstopper back in the day, especially with dum-dums.
jetinteriorguy
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I think of the Webley's like an English Bulldog. Kind of big and clunky and butt ugly, and yet very lovable. I've never owned one, or even handled or shot one, but I'd sure love to give one a try.
45 Dragoon
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"Dum-dum" was the name given to a series of several .303 expanding bullets developed by an English Army officer at the (then) British government arsenal in Dum Dum, India, a suburb of Calcutta.
The term "dum-dum" is an unofficial slang term and is generally now used to refer to any expanding bullet.
Doesn't really apply to .455 Webley rounds, as no known commonly available .455 rounds were ever made with expanding "dum-dum" type bullets.
The term "dum-dum" is an unofficial slang term and is generally now used to refer to any expanding bullet.
Doesn't really apply to .455 Webley rounds, as no known commonly available .455 rounds were ever made with expanding "dum-dum" type bullets.
jetinteriorguy
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This is in reply to 45 Dragoon. Hah, that's a good one 
While you are correct that the term "dum-dum" was coined for the .303 cartridge, there were most certainly expanding bullets used in .455 Webley. The infamous Mk. III "manstopper" cartridge used a relatively soft lead 220 gr bullet with hollow cavities in both its nose and base. Like the .303 "dum-dum" the .455 "Manstopper" was relatively short-lived due to the Hague Convention of 1899. An interesting article, complete with pictures, about the various iterations of the .455 Webley cartridge can be found here:
http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=introduction-to-455-cartridges
True believers in hardball refer to hollowpoints as "trick ammo."
The one and only Webley I ever owned was not at all accurate, if that counts for anything. Of course, it wasn't new and I was using commercial US made ammo instead of what I should have been using. Actually, I don't know if it was sighted for 200 grain bullets or 146 grain bullets. I bought it when you could still buy them through the mail.
There was a nickel-plated target sighted large frame Webley making the rounds in Northern Virginia a few years back, meaning from shop to gun show and so on. It was unusual enough for people to remember it if they saw it.
The one and only Webley I ever owned was not at all accurate, if that counts for anything. Of course, it wasn't new and I was using commercial US made ammo instead of what I should have been using. Actually, I don't know if it was sighted for 200 grain bullets or 146 grain bullets. I bought it when you could still buy them through the mail.
There was a nickel-plated target sighted large frame Webley making the rounds in Northern Virginia a few years back, meaning from shop to gun show and so on. It was unusual enough for people to remember it if they saw it.