When I were a boy, my mate and I were playing in the local farmers hay barn and found an air pistol. No doubt hidden there by a local lad whose parents wouldn't approve. My memory is that it looked like a colt 45 automatic and was cocked by pulling back the "slide"? Not sure about that bit. One thing I definitely recall was that, to load the pellet, the very short barrel was hinged at the front and flipped up for the pellet to be loaded from the rear. Of course we didn't have my pellets, so we tried to shoot bits of twig.

Any experts on here who can ID this beast? I have been looking online over the years and find out what it was. I have half a mind that it was made by webley. This would have been in the mid 60's. Now that I have found my interest in air guns again thi s is really starting to bug me!