Help with identifying this firearm?
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Post subject: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:01 pm |
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Joined: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:46 pm Posts: 845 Location: Saint Paul
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I happened upon an ad for a holster and firearm combination that was printed in 1960. The ad states that the firearm is over 50 years old (which would bring it to turn-of-the-last-century time (1900's). The holster is described as a Buscadero with Six-shooter.
The firearm that I am curious about is listed in the advertisement as a "W&S six-shooter" that "has seen service" but with clean and crisp bores and which are mechanically "perfect". The ad further states that the "six-shooter" takes "regular U.S. .45 caliber with ammunition available in every sporting goods store."
What is a "W&S six-shooter"? Does anyone out there know?
Oh, the price for the entire thing, holster, belt, and "six-shooter"? $16.95 from the Ellner Company in Los Angeles.
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JonL
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Post subject: Re: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:37 pm |
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Joined: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:27 pm Posts: 179 Location: Plymouth
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I know this isn't the gun but if you haven't run a Web search on "'W&S' firearms" it might give you a start in tracking it down: http://www.ballista-publishing.com/book.htm. Good Luck.
_________________ SETI...because we couldn't find any down here.
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Traveler
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Post subject: Re: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:47 am |
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Joined: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:46 pm Posts: 845 Location: Saint Paul
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Thank you very much. "British" just didn't come to mind. I believe that the firearm in question was indeed a Webley and Scott conversion. Thanks again.
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Selurcspi
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Post subject: Re: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:22 am |
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Joined: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:02 pm Posts: 1569 Location: The Mild, Mild, West, Burbs
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W & S would in all probability be Webley & Scott. My guess would be that this is a Webley Revolver, there were six variations or "Marks" 1 through 5 being birds head grips with subtle differences between them and 6 was a square butt. To allow them to shoot .45ACP the cylinders have to be faced off in a lathe to provide the extra room for the moon clips. In this contition they will also fire the .45 Rimmed which is not so freely available.
PM me if you'd like to shoot one!
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chunkstyle
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Post subject: Re: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:22 am |
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Joined: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:28 pm Posts: 2362 Location: Uptown Minneapolis
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Could they have been designed to take .45 Colt? Seems more likely, for a turn of the century weapon.
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Andrew Rothman
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Post subject: Re: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:58 pm |
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Blued Steel
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Post subject: Re: Help with identifying this firearm? Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:34 pm |
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Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:22 pm Posts: 106
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before 1968, such ads were common place, I somewhere have an ad from the back of a Sports Afield dated 1965, I think it was june. The ad lists a company in NYC listing springfield rifles for 11.95. Krags for about 7, 1911's for $9.99 and all sorts of chinese and Axis bolt guns for under $5.00. I believe Oswald bought his rifle thru the US mail for under 10 dollars.
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