I have a little .22 rifle that is not supposed to exist and I still shoot it. One of my favorites to shoot.
Intrigued. Care to share more details?
I have a little .22 rifle that is not supposed to exist and I still shoot it. One of my favorites to shoot.
Pics?I have a Model 94 Winchester that was made in 1920
It’s loose and worn out, my Dads rifle from when he was a teenager. I could shoot it, but don’t want to. I’m happy to keep it in the safe and take it out and admire it occasionally.
I will sometime over the holiday, it’s buried deep in the back of the safe.Pics?
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I found a Webley Mark? in my Grandads attic Cal.455.760. He told me he might give it to me if I worked hard that summer. It rode in my suitcase on a Greyhound to California. Around 1969I will sometime over the holiday, it’s buried deep in the back of the safe.
It’s a cool old gun, used to have the saddle ring on it and my dad hand painted a whitetail deer on the stock when he was 14, that’s when he got the gun.
They grew up poor and his 2 older brothers left home in the early 50s to go work in a steel mill and one trip back for Thanksgiving, they bought this gun at a pawn shop and brought it back home to my dad on a Trailways bus.
Think of doing that today..
There is not another one like it , very special to me since my dad passed away this year. He personally gave it to me about 6 years ago before the Alzheimer’s got bad and he couldn’t rememeber.
But he was sharp that day he passed it down to me, with the warning to never sell it and always pass it down the family line.
I found a Webley Mark? in my Grandads attic Cal.455.760. He told me he might give it to me if I worked hard that summer. It rode in my suitcase on a Greyhound to California. Around 1969
Nope, one of the many that got away. Some said I was over pressuring the gun by shooting .45acp in it. And the 455 stuff cost a fortune back thenStill got it? Would love to see pics!
Nope, one of the many that got away. Some said I was over pressuring the gun by shooting .45acp in it. And the 455 stuff cost a fortune back then
Not sure how you could shoot .45 ACP in it unless the cylinder was shaved, at which point you would need moon clips to shoot .455 Webley. But you are correct in that factory .45 ACP is way too much pressure for the pistol.
And .455 still costs a fortune, and if anything is even tougher to find. It gets worse with the Webley Mk I I have, which can only shoot low pressure, black powder loads. I am still looking for some ammo to shoot through it, although I am sure I could put 6-12 normal .455 rounds through it without risking too much!
When I have more time I will.Intrigued. Care to share more details?
Any firearm worth making is already being made.
Winchester youth model 67. Papaw helped teach us to shoot with it. Kept it in a shed in Lake Charles. Word is, he got it from my great uncle Bill. Note the exposed thumb screw, finger grooves, blued trigger guard and chromed trigger.
The Winchester historian says the youth model was never released in that configuration. The finger grooves and exposed mounting screw were eliminated at least a year before the youth model came out.
It has NOT been cut down.
I did have to refinish it as it was severely weather damaged. Still shoots great though. View attachment 158582 View attachment 158583 View attachment 158584 View attachment 158585