Webley Mk 3 questions.

[pennineway.fswo]

I have heard of Mk3’s cylinders and trigger sears being badly damaged by excessive and inappropriate lubrication causing detonation. Perhaps the trigger mechanism and sears in the very early mk3’s are more prone to damage from detonation (rebound of the piston) than the simpler more robust sears in later models.
I know that one of our retired club members has one of these early rifles that has been used regularly since he was a boy and it has been a very reliable rifle.

[I. J.]

You do know that these are made by the same people who make the pistols Ian ?
They shoot like them too

Where did I say I liked them?

Looks like a sack of sh*te to me IJ, don't even know what you paid but I reckon you got burned😘
ATB J.

And this man knows his sh*te - he buys loads of it (e.g. tatty FWB90 )

[1shot1kill]

Where did I say I liked them?




And this man knows his sh*te - he buys loads of it (e.g. tatty FWB90 )

Not biting🤐

[Lakey]

I would say £180 has got to be your starting point for an early double pull Mk 3 in the rarer .177 cal. Nice rifle ! I would say use it and enjoy it, the double pull trigger wasnt made for long. Not because it wasnt any good, but because it was too expensive and too complicated for cost effective production.
Lovely Rifle, and a GREAT find !

[D10bore]

I thought the first series mk3 were all 177 as 22 was not available with the war just finished 1947 the first series ran up to serial no 2500 mike

[I. J.]

They are like buses. Ive never even seen a double sear Mk 3 before this week and now Ive been offered another one (which I snapped up. ).

My dustbins going to be bursting at the seams.

[1shot1kill]

Where did I say I liked them?




And this man knows his sh*te - he buys loads of it (e.g. tatty FWB90 )

I knows me sh*te, me💩
J.

[I. J.]

Not biting🤐

I knows me sh*te, me💩
J.

Hook, line and sinker.

[johnbaz]

Hook, line and stinker.

As it's the brown stuff you're talking about, I corrected that for you Ian


John