Webly Fosbery

indy1919a4 said:

To cock it you can do it Zed style... Skip to 1:50 if you must... Praise Zardoz...

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But if you look, the chambers are empty when Connery points it at the camera and fires. Invisible bullets cool.

I would have been okay buying one for the price my friend did. By the time his came in to the dealer, filled out forms, handled it: poof. None available. I mean /really/ few must have been in the US warehouse and went in days once on sale.

I've fired a Mateba too, more recently than the Webley-Fosbery, but for some reason I remember it less distinctly than the Fosbery. It was more like firing an ordinary heavy revolver. We had the 357 Magnum version, but we only had one box of Magnum ammunition. We decided to put in the 38 Special recoil spring (that's a feature of the gun) but that wound up taking forever, and that is what I remember most. We really ought to have left the 357 Magnum spring in; there is more point to having such a big, complex revolver for a really powerful cartridge than for something as mild as 38 Special +P.

In short, it's a nice gun, but not as unusual as the Fosbery. I think the recoil stroke is shorter because it uses a conventional hand-and-ratchet than the Fosbery's cam-and-track system. And it's a swing-out cylinder, not a top-break. It's just not as different.

jeepnik said:

But if you look, the chambers are empty when Connery points it at the camera and fires. Invisible bullets cool.

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It could be that Zed only had one bullet for that gun. Then when he cycled the action it lined that round up with the barrel.. His arms and ammunition supplier did not impress me with alot of quality control..