What Would You Like To See?

[Geezer]

Yep, pellets from the cylinders and bbs from the centre, lovely stuff!!



I do have a soft spot for early automatics, wilder looking stuff like the Borchardt or the Mars would be great to own but I doubt there would be the market for them as they were quite limited productions and don't fit into a period where there is historical significance for them.

I know, and nerd points to short-carabine for his earlier post. Same goes for a lot of the fascinating late Victorian/Edwardian pistols. If they aren't in big movies or video games, they won't get made.

The Mars is insane. Steampunk Automag that doesn't work properly. The British Army used to keep a particular WW2 prototype tank (I forget which, I think it's at Bovingdon now) to teach people how not to design tanks, because it was so awful in every respect. The Mars is the pistol equivalent of how not to do it.

What would be AWESOME would be a genuine semi-auto pellet-firing CO2 Webley-Fosbery.

[blooregard]

The British Army used to keep a particular WW2 prototype tank (I forget which, I think it's at Bovingdon now) to teach people how not to design tanks, because it was so awful in every respect.

I think it was the amusingly names Little Willie.

[Hsing-ee]

What would be AWESOME would be a genuine semi-auto pellet-firing CO2 Webley-Fosbery.

Now you are talking. With blowback. I'd like one of the target versions please.

[Geezer]

Now you are talking. With blowback. I'd like one of the target versions please.

Yes, sadly, given that the real thing in steel had only marginal operating power with the recoil of a .455" Webley cartridge, I have a feeling that any attempt to copy it in light alloy in CO2 form would not function - unless it got about 6 shots per 12g CO2 cylinder. I mean the Umarex DE has a very light slide and turns a small light cylinder when it cycles, but runs out of gas after around 25 shots (and is NOISY).

You might be able to make it work OK with a 95% plastic upper, but who would want a 50% plastic Fosbery?

Well, maybe me. If it worked. But not many others.