Webley MK VI

[blooregard]

Just picked up one of these, what an excellent pistol.

Very impressed, just need some more shells now.

[flatrajectory]

Just picked up one of these, what an excellent pistol.

Very impressed, just need some more shells now.

If you have access to a small lathe the urethane bullet nose can be shortened, but..
You must pull the nose from the shell ,shorten the narrow end by 2mm, shorten the shoulder by 2mm, then recess the very end by 2mm. I have done this to 2 sets of DW shells.
This is the only way to do it.

Pete.

[gingernut]

Shoots well.
350 fps today and 10 metre tin cans one handed no problem.
So nice to own and shoot.

[Binker]

Shoots well.
350 fps today and 10 metre tin cans one handed no problem.
So nice to own and shoot.

I'm enjoying the shoot n see @ 10 metre.

[flatrajectory]

Shoots well.
350 fps today and 10 metre tin cans one handed no problem.
So nice to own and shoot.

It must be cool out there today Patrick.........I chronoed mine in 'the shed' last week at 12 degrees and got a nominal 400 fps out of the first 2 cylinders full, with Umarex steel bb.
OR.......were you using lead. ?

Pete.

[flatrajectory]

Shoots well.
350 fps today and 10 metre tin cans one handed no problem.
So nice to own and shoot.

I am pleased to hear you are using the correct shooting stance for this pistol young Patrick.
One handed ,with the weak hand resting on your hip. Good man, keep it up.......tickety boo and all that.
Pete.

P.S.
Anyone seen to be using the modern 'Weaver' stance with this revolver will be flogged at dawn......you have been warned.

[jassi]

I am pleased to hear you are using the correct shooting stance for this pistol young Patrick.
One handed ,with the weak hand resting on your hip. Good man, keep it up.......tickety boo and all that.
Pete.

P.S.
Anyone seen to be using the modern 'Weaver' stance with this revolver will be flogged at dawn......you have been warned.

Or on your sword hilt Though I suppose they wouldn't be using swords in the trenches, only in the cavalry.

[gingernut]

Around 50 degrees in old money Pete.
Yes correct Officer and Gentleman stance.
Both eyes open and narrowed as in 'goodness there are thousands of the b*ggers'

[Bjacobs571]

I bought a set of DW shells but I thought the heads were too soft to be gripped in the chuck and remain central. I was also unhappy about wether my metal cutting tools would cut the soft plastic cleanly. In the end I turned some white plastic bar and made some pellet heads to push into the cases. It is a bit of a job to push the pellets skirt first into the heads but they work quite well.

[Bjacobs571]

This pistol is perfect for rapid fire as the discipline was invented after an English officer walked into a French farm house and surprised 5 Germans, who he managed to shoot before they could get him. He obviously would have had a webley mk 6

[flatrajectory]

I bought a set of DW shells but I thought the heads were too soft to be gripped in the chuck and remain central. I was also unhappy about wether my metal cutting tools would cut the soft plastic cleanly. In the end I turned some white plastic bar and made some pellet heads to push into the cases. It is a bit of a job to push the pellets skirt first into the heads but they work quite well.

No need to grip the soft bullet head in the chuck. What I did was to slide the bullet head along a length of steel rod ( approx 3.5mm diam, from memory), so that it is a tight fit on the rod, then grip the rod in the jaws of the chuck.
As long as you use a very sharp lathe tool it will cut no problem.
Pete.

[jassi]

If you drill the whole thing right through, you can load from the rear, which is far easier.

[Bjacobs571]

No need to grip the soft bullet head in the chuck. What I did was to slide the bullet head along a length of steel rod ( approx 3.5mm diam, from memory), so that it is a tight fit on the rod, then grip the rod in the jaws of the chuck.
As long as you use a very sharp lathe tool it will cut no problem.
Pete.

Great Idea I hadn't thought of doing that, although 3.5mm might be a bit small for my chuck to grip. still I can always turn a larger rod down to 3.5mm.