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The Webley Royal Irish Constabulary revolver is a British double-action, centerfire cartridge revolver designed in 1867. It was one of the earliest British breachloading revolvers and one of the most popular British revolvers of the 19th century.
This was the standard service weapon of the Royal Irish Constabulary [2] (RIC, hence the revolver's name), which were also chambered in (among others) .450 Adams and 476/.455. [3] Lt. Col. George Custer is believed to have carried a pair of RIC revolvers (presented to him in 1869 by Lord Berkley Paget) [4] at the Battle of the Little Bighorn ...
Reportedly at right in gunrack is a Webley Revolver used by Custer [35] Webley Royal Irish Constabulary Revolver. The Webley RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) model was Webley's first double-action revolver, and adopted by the RIC in 1868, [36] hence the name. It was a solid frame, gate-loaded revolver, chambered in .442 Webley.
A parts kit is a collection of weapon (notably firearm) parts that, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), "is designed to or may be readily be assembled, completed, converted, or restored to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive."
Webley 1868 RIC No. 1 Revolver cal 450 CF. There is a well-known story that a pair of Webley RIC Model revolvers were presented to Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer by Lord Berkeley in 1869, and it is believed that General Custer was using them at the time of his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. [2]
.455 Webley is a British handgun cartridge, most commonly used in the Webley top break revolvers Marks I through VI. It is also known as " .455 Eley " and " .455 Colt ". The .455 cartridge was a service revolver cartridge, featuring a rimmed cartridge firing a .455 in (11.5 mm) bullet at the relatively low velocity of 650 ft/s (190 m/s).
FAMAE revolver: FAMAE.32 Long Colt.38 Special: 6 Chile: FN Barracuda: Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal: 9×19mm Parabellum.357 Magnum.38 Special: 6 Belgium: 1974-c.1989 Freedom Arms Model 83 .500 WE: Freedom Arms.500 Wyoming Express: 5 United States: 1983-present (designed in 1950s) Frontier Bulldog (copy of Webley RIC) J.B. Rongé & Sons .442 ...
The .450 Adams was a British black powder centrefire revolver cartridge, initially used in converted Beaumont–Adams revolvers, in the late 1860s. [1] Officially designated .450 Boxer Mk I, and also known variously as the .450 Revolver, .450 Colt, .450 Short, .450 Corto, and .450 Mark III, and in America as the .45 Webley, [2] it was the British Army's first centrefire revolver round.