[ Webley 1913: Shooting ]
Alright, so there are two ways that we can shoot this:
we can shoot it from the magazine, or we can use the magazine disconnect and single fire it.
Well, I'm going to try both, and I'm going to start with some regular shooting.
Magazine all the way in.
That actually is a really pleasant gun to shoot, this is
I would say in every way recoil-wise comparable to a 1911, which is kind of impressive.
You look at this thing and it's really ...
the ugly duckling of automatic pistols, and you kind of expect it to shoot terribly.
But no actually, it doesn't.
Alright, now I have pulled the magazine out to its disconnected position.
Which means that the slide will now lock open on every shot,
and I can take individual cartridges and drop them in, and single fire.
And I'm curious if I can just drop a round in.
Wow! You don't actually even really have to hand feed them into the chamber.
Alright, do one more round single loaded.
Yeah, you do have to be a little bit ...
let's see if we can ...
what is the trick to this?
If you slide it in forward and just drop it like that, it'll work just fine.
So slide it in like so.
And then you have a slide release here.
It's pretty tight. What I've been doing is actually holding the slide release
and pulling the slide back slightly to relieve pressure on it.
But you can do it with just a thumb there.
Of course, it's easier to do that way if you are properly British, and right-handed.
In fact, it's a lot easier right-handed.
Oop!
Oh no! The Huns!
And my pistol malfed.
This is a pretty slick shooting pistol, I'll be honest.
It may have been overtaken by the later developments of the Colt, which became the 1911.
But when this was first adopted by the British,
the Colts they had access to at the time,
I might well have picked one of these too.
This gun is way more comfortable than it appears.
The grip safety is extremely easy to engage.
There's really no way to get a grip on this pistol and not depress that grip safety.
It strips easily, it's easy to clean.
It's relatively soft shooting despite having a pretty powerful cartridge,
a more potent cartridge than the US .45 calibre ACP.
This is I think a vastly underrated gun because it's kind of ugly looking.
At any rate, I would like to give a big thanks to Mike Carrick of Arms Heritage Magazine
for allowing me to shoot this out of his collection and bring it to you guys.
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