.577 webley

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Ok so I was thumbing through a book on the history of weapons and on one page they have pictures of several old calibers. Im familar with most until I stumbled upon this little beasty.

.577 webley it is absolutely huge! Does anyone here have one!? Ill put a dollar downto say dingus probably does or may have!

Any info other than my weak googlefu was able to drag up would be much appreciated these guns must have been a handful !

Quote from wikipedia:

"Although often attributed to Webley, Webley only produced some of the revolvers now commonly referred to as Webley .577 Boxer Revolvers, which used the most powerful handgun cartridge of the day, the .577 Boxer. It was produced by Webley under licence from the firm of William Tranter of Birmingham, whose design it actually was. Webley was just one of several firms licensed to use Tranter's double-action lock and particularly Tranter's patented revolving recoil shield, which was a key feature of the early .577 calibre revolvers."
 
Yes Dingus Had one sold it to me now its back down in the US Here is a pic.
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mrclean89 said:
Thats quite the cannon, did you ever fire it ?

Mclean
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Yes I actually put over 100Rnds through it cut down 24gauge shot gun brass and a. 590 bullet and 30grns FFG the ones in the pic. shot about 3-4feet high but I did get a 5 shot hand sized group out of the beast.
 
The one I had and it was a Belgian gun was around $3500.00 Now a Adams could go as High as maybe even $6000.00 as they are so rare you barely ever see one fore sale.
 
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That 50 caliber gun might go for less than $3500 but it wont be cheep they cost alot even in the USA tho you never know.
The 577 Calibered guns are very rare more rare than the 500 calibered ones.
there intresting guns they were made as man stopers as the british wanted something that would knock down a 7 ft tall Native chargeing you all pumped up on whatever they could get back in the 1800s.
The British fought alot of BIG people or groups in there long empire spreading past.

Aparently it was terrifying to be charged by theses fellows and shoot one with a 45 caliber bullet only to have him just keep on comeing after 3 or 4 hits.So thats where theses huge calibers came about.
I asume they worked to as thats a friken huge hunk of lead.

This is just what i have read ^
 
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