Posted on 02/17/2009 3:04:12 PM PST by dynachrome
ping for later, and here’s hoping my favorite MilSurp guns make the list!
The Cartridges of the World manual sez the .45 ACP is more robust than the .455 Webley. And there is the advantage of moon clip rapid reload.
To add to this list I nominate both the Colt and the Smith & Wesson models of 1917 in .45 ACP. Both are a huge chunk of gun, all blue steel exc for wood grips, the only two materials a real gun should be made of, JMHO.
Can you imagine the poor bastards at Rourke's Drift facing that crowd of about 2,000 and only 100 of them? Had to be terrifying. I thought the movie did a good job of conveying that feeling of terror.
The 1911 isn’t on the “more manly firearms” follow-up because it was on the original list, which is linked from the first line of this one.
Somewhere I ran across a site that sells the cartridges for about $6 apiece (don’t remember where). Or learn to re-load your own here: (excellent old weapon site.)
http://www.surplusrifle.com/articles2008/loadingforthemartinihenry/index.asp
I think the company wants “only” $16,000 for the revolver.
Yes, my FIL had a S&W 1917 .45 revolver. They were more robust, but smaller in size than the Webley. I tried to get it when he died but his widow sold it to some guy without saying a word to the rest of the family. Damn, shame, it had real ivory grips(not factory standard)that had turned yellow with age and had been used by some sheriff in Arizona or one of the other western states before my father in law bought it.
he was a member of the commie party.
But if his books are enjoyable, I will try not to hold it against him.
I own, and carry a Kimber Ultra Covert II. It is compact, light, and a very smooth shooting weapon. Mine has the Crimson Trace grips, and I am a big fan of those as well.
The only negative thing I can say about it is that it requires a special tool for dis-assembly.
Prolly should make a list of the biggest wussy firearms...the list would be much shorter.
Ok, is it a smaller cartridge than the .600 Nitro express? A well known and often used big game cartridge in Africa. Used mainly in English made double rifles.
It’s faintly possible that Lt. Chard could have personally bought a prototype, pre-production Webley-Green 1879 model and had it sent to him in South Africa, but probably not.
Still, great film.
Might be the same one. I can’t find the pic I googled a few days ago, yet.
I traded a half dozen cartons of Lucky's for a Colt 1911 in Munich/56... Then traded it for a new Single Six in 1959.
I'm beyond screaming, - I just whimper a lot.
One for his future lists:
“Prototype Folding Machine Gun”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2187873/posts
My sweetheart already knows what the 2nd Amendment was actually written for. There is a particular emphasis on gun safety.
The M16 isn’t particularly manly anyway.
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