Which is the Best Webley Overlever Pistol?

[Aimstraight]

Steel framed premier certainly feels the best, but I love my tempest

To be fair on the Tempest it does have nicely shaped grips with thumb rest and safety (though not ideal for a leftie), and the shape of the rear casting was better than the Premier Mk 2. The Tempest is a very popular shooters pistol.

[Abasmajor]

For pure aesthetics and collectable rarity I would opt for the pre-war, 'Straight Grip' Senior, but for the best compromise between shooting and collecting it would be an A or B series Premier.

Regards
Brian

[I. J.]

'Which is the Best Webley Overlever Pistol?'

They have yet to make a good un.

[Mobiasstrip]

Pre war slant grip Senior. They never really improved anything significant after that.
Straight grip Pre war Senior my favourite Webley pistol.

[45flint]

Best Webley Pistol the Stoeger Straight grip Senior. Stoeger augmented the Senior with checkered walnut grips with brass medalian and a special ribbed trigger. I also believe the white highlighting of the lettering is original Stoeger. I truely think this trumps the more modern Senior with plastic grips.

https://imgur.com/gallery/AutGh

[harvey_s]

For sheer quality of manufacture.... It has to be a post war slant grip Senior - a proper air pistol made from steel to firearms standards.

But for best accuracy...the best Webley overlever has to be:









The Nemisis

[mrto]

The nicest for pure plinking pleasure are the tin grip and early post war Juniors.Lovely build quality and accurate in a compact and easy to cock package.

The Junior's are my favourite over lever Webley pistols the MK2 can be ignored,though.

The larger slant grip post war Senior with a good trigger is probably my second favourite followed by the blued steel Premier's.The MK2 Premier can also be ignored.

I had a Tempest,they are a very functional pistol with a great trigger,but total carp build quality,monkey metal casting, plastic and roll pins!

ATB.

[Hsing-ee]

'Which is the Best Webley Overlever Pistol?'

They have yet to make a good un.

What about the HW45 then? Oh, that isn't a Webley...

[Geezer]

For pure aesthetics and collectable rarity I would opt for the pre-war, 'Straight Grip' Senior, but for the best compromise between shooting and collecting it would be an A or B series Premier.

Regards
Brian

This is the correct answer. Early Premier. Except I'd say that the runner-up to the earlier Premier, as a shooter, is a good slant-grip Senior, vintage irrelevant, and a good Senior beats an average Premier.

As a shooter, a decent Hurricane is good, and has the best sights (but: alloy/plastic, bulky, 70s looks, etc).

I've said on here before that my unscientific experience of these things is that they appear to be more accurate in .177" than .22".

[Rickenbacker]

I realise the Nemesis was only mentioned as a joke, but just to say that it's potential accuracy greatly increases (or should that be decreases?) with a much much lighter mainspring in the trigger.

The factory spring is much much much much too heavy.

Unlike the awful spring pistols that fling shots all over the place, the Nemesis is actually usable as a match pistol - but only with a light trigger spring.

[PaulR]

Has to be the Premier.

I have an "A" which has all the qualities of the previous Senior but, imo, is easier to cock and has a far superior trigger.

I have a couple of slant grip Seniors and the triggers are a real let down - great apart from that though!

[archer24]

For looks a MK2 Target does it for me.
For engineering the pre 1958 Senior.
For shooting a E Premier....
Reason neoprene breach washer, ptfe washer and non-sintered barrel catch....
last forever (almost), took my 1974 E out of the draw last year after sitting for 25 years.
Still as powerful as a new Tempest, still knock over coke cans at 10yds. (did oil first)

[davhill]

For pure aesthetics and collectable rarity I would opt for the pre-war, 'Straight Grip' Senior, but for the best compromise between shooting and collecting it would be an A or B series Premier.

Regards
Brian

Greetings from a newbie in Cumbria.

The chairman of the club I attend (Kendal rifle and pistol club) has asked me to sell a pistol on his behalf. He's restored it (stripdown and clean up,
new sping and seals) and I'm looking at a price to go with it on Guntrader

It's a tin grip straight handle Junior with the original smoothbore .177 barrel. It's all there and I'd call the blueing 95% good. I've a set of pics but I can't see a way of posting them here but I can always add them to an email.

I've seen similar guns on Guntrader and the prices go from £99 up to beyond £250 (for boxed ones). It's notable
that there isn't another tin grip example.

So, does anyone have a guide price? Please feel free to ask any questions.

Thank you,

David

[Rickenbacker]

Greetings from a newbie in Cumbria.

Greetings.

You might want to make a new thread of your valuation request, rather than tacking it on here.

[davhill]

Greetings.

You might want to make a new thread of your valuation request, rather than tacking it on here.

Thanks, Guitar Man! I've complied, with a new thread in General Airgun.