Webley .38 Mk IV

[ChuckD]

Saw this at Apex: https://www.apexgunparts.com/product...roducts_id/375

Has anyone ever made a frame for these, or heard of an 80%?

I also found this "Non-firing replica": http://www.ima-usa.com/british-weble...er-38-200.html and wonderif it could be modified to fit the parts in the Apex kit to a fully functional revolver (this says "Correct weight, "breaks open", and even has functional trigger with rotating cylinder")

Just curious . . .

[Flying_clutchman]

anyone? I have been dying for a Webley! Good find Chuckd!

[teg767]

I saw the newly added item at APEX too and interested to find out as well?

[Hardwarejunkie]

I saw these the other day also, but didn't see the 3" and 4" barrels then.
It seems to me that if I bought one of these and moved my original cylinder/extractor over to it that I could avoid any cylinder timing issues - anyone know if that is really true?
It might be cool to have all the barrel lengths or maybe make a super snubbie like this: http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...ELD%20SNUB.htm.

[Utha Schleigle]

38 short - not 38 special

europeans love short small bullets for police and staff personel.

GOT ANSWER - from write up - pass

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The ".380 Revolver" round had been developed in the middle 19th Century for use in small concealable revolvers. It's a pretty anemic round (a 124 grain bullet at 625 fps, for a whopping muzzle energy of 110 foot-pounds) similar to the .38 Short Colt. In 1887 Smith & Wesson had developed the .38 S&W round for its line of top-break revolvers. Boasting a heavier bullet (160 grains) and more energy (250 f-p at the muzzle), it was better but still no world-shaker. Starting from these two datum points, the Webley firm, with an eye on the new requirements, developed a new round in the early 1920's for British Army trials. It fired a 200-grain lead bullet propelled by "Neonite" powder at a muzzle velocity sufficient to give it reasonable power. At 50 yards the bullet was moving at 570 fps, with almost 150 f-p of energy. Subsequent developments led to the approval of this round as the ".380-200" in 1922, and it became the official caliber of the Army with the final development of the "Pistol, Revolver, No. 2 Mark I" in 1932, and its general issue to troops. It proved to be an accurate and durable weapon, much easier to shoot than the .455. The British went to war in 1939 with this as their primary sidearm.

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