![]() 455 Webley cartridge, which was considered a much more satisfactory stopper of men than the old. It featured a top-break design with automatic simultaneous extraction, a single- or double-action trigger, and the new. ![]() Webley & Son, and was adopted as Pistol, Webley, Mk I. Its replacement came in 1887 from the Birmingham firm of P. 476 black powder cartridge, the Enfield was not popular with the troops, and it was withdrawn from British Army service after only a few years (although, oddly, the North-West Mounted Police-precursors to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police-kept using them until 1911). It didn't really work correctly in practice, and it had the strange side effect that, even though the Enfield was a top-break revolver, it had to be loaded through a gate, a round at a time, like a Nagant.īetween that and the underwhelming performance of the. 476-caliber, double-action revolver featuring an odd "selective extraction" system that was supposed to enable users to remove spent casings while leaving unfired rounds in the gun. In that year, the British Army replaced its first cartridge revolvers, which were conversions of an 1860s cap-and-ball design, with the Enfield Mk I, a. To really cover the story of the Mk IV, we need to go back to 1880, more than 50 years before our particular gun came along. 38/200 service revolver, a pistol whose origins were marred by controversy (some would say treachery), but which ultimately went on to become a highly successful military and police service weapon. ![]() Today's Gun of the Week is an old friend I'm surprised I haven't written about before.īehold the Webley & Scott Mk IV. ![]()
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