Quote Originally Posted by Abasmajor View Post
Hello John,
Thanks for explaining the idiosyncrasies of the twist grip cocking solution which would make sense if it had as you say been developed to include a ratchet mechanism to increase efficiency. One pistol I would love to own had it gone into production would be the Whiting pistol particularly for its close resemblance to the small Webley semi-auto pistols of the period. Even fitted with a long barrel, the muzzle velocity of that design must have been quite low making it quite low on power.

Brian
Agreed. They’d probably have sold very few of them, but its “replica” nature and rarity would make it very sought after now. I have always thought that the Webley autos, while not as good a design as Browning’s (something you can say about almost any type of gun between 1880 and 1920) were cool.