Argentinian copy of Webley Service!

[Garvin]

Webley fans have got to look at this thread on the AVA showing a 1960s/70s copy of the Webley Service!

First stop the Service, next stop the Falklands...

[Hsing-ee]

Webley fans have got to look at this thread on the AVA showing a 1960s/70s copy of the Webley Service!

First stop the Service, next stop the Falklands...

Eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Its like that horrible copy of the Sharp Innova that they are flogging at the moment.... a plastic rose instead of a real one. In the bin with it!

Still, well spotted - replicant trash.

[harvey_s]

Webley fans have got to look at this thread on the AVA showing a 1960s/70s copy of the Webley Service!

First stop the Service, next stop the Falklands...

Up for sale on an Argentinian auction site...

Complete rifle @ $900

Lovely brown plastic butt only @ $200

Good luck with a long-distance purchase from the Argies as even if you wanted one, and got it - I wouldn't like to say what condition it would be in by the time it got to an English buyer...

[GuizeAyose]

Webley fans have got to look at this thread on the AVA showing a 1960s/70s copy of the Webley Service!

First stop the Service, next stop the Falklands...

Thanks for the link, very interesting.

[Binners]

Webley fans have got to look at this thread on the AVA showing a 1960s/70s copy of the Webley Service!

First stop the Service, next stop the Falklands...

Thanks for that interesting link Danny

[Phil Russell]

??? Very interesting ... looks like plastic. Would love to see one but not sure I want one.

But then I have to admit to owning a Chuntsman ... but I only bought that out of curiosity and for a platform to fiddle with.

Thanks for the info.
Cheers, Phil

[fat man]

Something different .

[kevin.ronnie]

some things are best left alone .

[scrapman]

I rather like the look of it - the steel parts anyway. My Service rifle is a bit knackered and every time I fire it I expect something (very expensive) to fly off in at least two parts. This thing looks like it might be rather fun to play with - after I'd binned the plastic stock and found some way to attach a cut down wooden stock of some sort.

I wonder what the trigger housing and transfer casting are made of? - they look suspiciously 'flat' for blued steel. Alloy I suppose - this seems a bit early for plastic working parts.

[Gamocfx]

Sorry to play devils advocate but I like it! OK the plastic is naff but this thing must have potential? Pity it is so expensive and in the land of angry men (at us at least).

[walnutfarmmick]

Something different .

Yeah - different to anything I'd want to own!

ATB, Mick

[micky]

Thanks for the photos Danny, but you can't beat the (real thing) for $900 l know which l would have rare or not.

[fat man]

Yeah - different to anything I'd want to own!

ATB, Mick

No I wouldnt buy it either but intresting all the same

[junglie]

??? Very interesting ... looks like plastic. Would love to see one but not sure I want one.

But then I have to admit to owning a Chuntsman ... but I only bought that out of curiosity and for a platform to fiddle with.

Thanks for the info.
Cheers, Phil

I confess me too, but once I'd sorted out the wobbly barrel, terrible accuracy & potentialy lethal fill valve Its turned out to be a good hunter. Actually got me back into air rifles & daystates & I now have an early huntsman classic & my " sunday best gun" a TH regged merlyn.

[ccdjg]

I wonder why Argentinian gun companies seem to have had such a fascination for copying our Webleys, more so than other countries. In the 1950's the Argentinian Mahely company made a pretty close copy of the Webley air pistol design (http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps92a1a1c0.jpg). Although now long out of production, these still come up very occasionally on Argentinian auction websites.