We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:22:10 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:31:09 -0600 Fiochi and Starline make brass for the Webely and Lee has the molds as do a few other makers. I was justed quoted $41CDN for 100 brass casing, the Fiochi loaded goes for $61 per 50 up here. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84714 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84714 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:36:31 -0600 Josh, that makes me wonder if one needs a Feddle manufacturing license if all he does is draw brass into empty cases, and does not put powder, bullets and primers into them.

Ummm...I don't know...I always thought you didn't need a license if you were making ammunition strictly for personal use?  I guess I'm not really up on the paperwork involved...

But I don't quite see how it's relevant anyway, as the empty cases aren't much good until you add the primers, powder, and bullets...unless you're suggesting that one person draw all the brass to provide for all of the other Webley collectors to handload?
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And if you want to invest in the equipment to draw your own brass and swage your own bullets, you could shoot all the .455 Webley you want...
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I've never tried that again, because I'm not that good a shot and the story will suffer if the second attempt was to reflect that.........

Good, solid pistols. Love the Wobblys.....]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84424 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84424 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:36:36 -0600
The wife, upon being introduced to the Webley not long after we were married promptly christened it "Roscoe, the World's Ugliest Handgun."   A couple years after that she used it to nail a running raccoon with one shot.  Hit him right behind the left shoulderblade as he was beating feet away from the back porch toward the undergrowth around the toolshed.  We've had lots of problems with rabid raccoons in our part of the county, and a raccoon that was coming up on the back porch in broad daylight made us a mite uncomfortable.

It's a nice, easy pistol to shoot single action.  The double-action trigger pull gives stiff a whole new meaning.  On the other hand, with no manual safety, a stiff double-action trigger pull isn't an entirely bad idea. 

And with full-moon clips, it empties and reloads about as quick as a modern revolver with a speed-loader.  And it's a .45...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84423 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84423 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:30:37 -0600
The Arsenal also has a Mark VI, which is a far more beat-up a pistol than the Mark IV.  I'll have to take some pics and toss 'em up here.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84422 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84422 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:09:13 -0600 Nice revovler, I have a Enfield Mk VI in .455, also a guy at my range casts the proper 265gr hollow based bullet for it. In SA it's a very accurate gun, the DA mode is not so nice. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84421 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84421 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:55:08 -0600 Apropos of nothing, my mother had an uncle who lost fingers in the Boer War fighting for the Imperium. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84418 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/outgoing_and_in.html#comment-84418 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:21:43 -0600