Webley Falcon sn 1798 .22

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falcon not one of the best webleys well made and good lines but the ones I have had not very accurate and did not realise there power was so low especially as it was marketed as a hunting rifle

[Geezer]

falcon not one of the best webleys well made and good lines but the ones I have had not very accurate and did not realise there power was so low especially as it was marketed as a hunting rifle

Factory velocity figures were a nominal 550 in .177” and 500 FPS in .22”.

That works out (depending on pellet weight) to around 6 ftlbs in .177” and nearer 8 in .22”. The latter being fine for the sort of farmyard/barn open sight stuff that these would have been used for (back when everyone who used an air gun for pest control used a .22”, ideally with BSA Pylarm/Eley Wasp/Webley Special round heads). Yes, not quite up to MkIII or Airsporter standards, but the Falcon cost less than half the price of a MkIII (£10-12 versus £20-25in the sixties), and the MkIII wasn’t that much more powerful (Webley adverts made clear that for pest shooting the .22” was “essential”).