Keeper pistols - what are they and why?

[Mr. Gen]

Webley junior - first pistol, bought it when I was 11, sold it a couple of years later then bought it back again.

It was confiscated by parents, teachers and police many times over the years but I always managed to get/steal it back. It survived a couple of weeks in a pond once and also survived being thrown on a bonfire!

Since then it was painted gloss black, stripped and reblued twice, and now has pride of place amongst around a hundred other webleys rather than hidden in a sock drawer

[clarky]

Webley junior - first pistol, bought it when I was 11, sold it a couple of years later then bought it back again.

It was confiscated by parents, teachers and police many times over the years but I always managed to get/steal it back. It survived a couple of weeks in a pond once and also survived being thrown on a bonfire!

Since then it was painted gloss black, stripped and reblued twice, and now has pride of place amongst around a hundred other webleys rather than hidden in a sock drawer

lol...i use to keep my Junior in a sock draw....given to me by my uncle in 79 it was a minty blued one .....dropped many a starling in the days of millions of starlings....wish i had kept it.

[Blackrider]

As a young lad, I once kept a Gat Gun up a bedroom chimney !
It stayed there for about two years until I sold it.

[Joejack]

Mine would be my chrome Gat I bought when I was 13 years old, I've had for 57 years now, just sentimental value, also my .22 Webley Tempest one of the last Birmingham guns, I refurbished it like new and made some oak grips for it, and I know it's for pistols but I would have to include my Walther Lever action Winchester I just love it.

Joe

[bcham]

As a young lad, I once kept a Gat Gun up a bedroom chimney !
It stayed there for about two years until I sold it.

i kept my gat and pellets under a loose floor board in my bedroom, away from my mums eyes,

[laverdabru]

Owned (& sold) most Webley pistols over the years, have some modern CO2 pistols. Still have a few of the old Wobbleys. Last to go would be an early Hurricane .22 which I've had for 20-30 years or a mid '60's Premier. The modern CO2's, Wesson, Crosman & Umarex - just feel no attachment to.

As for why? Guess because the Webleys are what I grew up with.

[johnbaz]

As a young lad, I once kept a Gat Gun up a bedroom chimney !
It stayed there for about two years until I sold it.

I got my first ever Harrington Gat gun last year!

It was a freebie from a mate that lives in Oxford, He knew I was in to guns and came back to his native Rotherham and passed it to one of his mates that works at our place, He passed it on to me!!

That's 57 years without owning one!!


John