Brings me back to Othias reiterating how daunting this series became, starting with "Yeah this'll be easy, there were like 5 guns total in World War 1," and here we are today.
@Doom Between Othias saying they're going to do some post WW1 guns in the post video updates, and the Tokarev strategically placed on the gun rack behind him these past few episodes, methinks you may not need to wait so long...
Hello. As ever, this was another college class to me. I am European, but in the country where I am, we can not own guns almost of any kind, and it happens that I always loved guns, their mechanics, history, etc. This channel has been a land of learning in this field of knowledge that I love so much. Being a simple school low rank worker, this is like a land of milk and honey to me. 1000 Thanks!!
I am shipping out to Navy Boot Camp tomorrow, and this is the one episode I have been looking forward to the most. Thank you, Othias, May, Suzie, Bruno, and the rest of the gang. I will miss you.
One of the most unique revolver designs out there gets a full episode from C&Rsenal complete with shooting, full technical breakdown and an explination history not well understood? Heck yeah!
the mark of a man with a limited skill set. really not a complicated weapon to build. especially given todays machinery. youre average tormach owner could make a webley.
@@DieselRamcharger well if it isn’t so difficult to make these day, then why aren’t you chomping at the bits to make them? You’d make a killing selling repros I’m sure
@@elijahaitaok8624 i own a machine shop, making these is well within my capability. however, i have absolutely zero desire to do firearms work. which is some of the lowest profit most tightly regulated shit on the planet. Its absolutely not worth it. The only thing that makes a webley cool is its story. A cheap knock off would be just that. Why even bother?
Every single inch of that letter at the beginning is sheer perfection. From the Crozier with a helmet stamp, to the letter coming from “My Dope Place.” You truly made something beautiful.
Fosbery was about a decade late in his design. Had the guns existed in the early- to mid-1890's, they would've been superior to every true automatic in existence at the time.
I don’t see it being more than a very niche product at any time. The additional complication and cost along with the disadvantages of such an external action are a lot for the fairly minor benefit over a decently designed DA/SA revolver. While always having a SA trigger pull immediately is an advantage, I suspect it really wasn’t a big deal in practice. If you have time to take careful aim to really benefit from the single action you probably can thumb back the hammer without much issue. If you don’t have time to thumb back the hammer, it is probably a brown pants moment and the accuracy benefit of single action probably isn’t a major concern. Certainly far less of a concern than the fatal consequence of it failing to cycle properly.
Not really. By 1896, Mauser's C96 came out and proved not only a semiautomatic pistol was possible but could be simplified and much more easily mass-produced and far more reliable than the Borschardt C93 from three years earlier. One Winston Churchill and others in the Boer Wars showed what the C96 could do in actual combat. With those things as factors, the Webley-Fosbery was only ever going to be a compromise between the traditional revolver user and the up and coming semiautomatic pistol for those who won't give up the revolver but want the semiautomatic speed.
Maybe 2 decades... One of those neat/great ideas that came too late. Reminds me of Mannlicher in that regard. Even then it was never going to be a game changer like auto loaders were. Just a good revolver. Would've been great for the old west and for some classic banditry, little less so in a large scale battle.
Holy shit, I was just looking into this revolver and this history, how come every time I look into an obscure WWI-era revolver you guys post a Primer episode on it shortly after? I swear, you are psychic, you mystical guinea pig man, you.
They are gearing up for a large shotgun series. Othias has had to keep quiet(ish) about it so he can get ahold of the shotguns and not have assholes bid up those shotguns arbitrarily on different auction sites. They had a Q&A about that issue several months back
Saw one of these being used on the range at Bisley back in 1983, everyone was fascinated by it and, luckily, the owner wasn’t too bothered by the crowd that gathered around in order to look at it.
Thanks for another great episode, I love the contrast between your professionalism (meticulously researched history and detailed technical descriptions) and regular moments of comedic farce such as that letter. Also until you posted the 300k subscribers podcast I didn’t realise how much you had sacrificed to make this series, my deepest thanks for all your hard work it has certainly helped to greatly expand my knowledge of WW1 firearms. I am really looking forward to your Q &A and happily I have a (hopefully reasonably interesting) question which I have been thinking about for several years and now I finally have an opportunity to ask. I suspect it will be an interesting video to watch.
The mechanics of this revolver are amazing. Such a work of art! I couldn't wait to see the slow mo of Mae shooting, but I did wait, because I wanted to understand it first. Wow that thing is amazing!
55:55 The locked cylinder also has an advantage in this situation. If the cylinder rotation lug at the bottom is solid and not spring-loaded (hard to see in enough detail to tell, but it looks to be solid), the pistol would be difficult to close without manually lining up the lug with the external cylinder rotation tracks before snapping it into place - and any mistake in alignment could result in accelerated wear of the lug and cylinder, if not immediate damage.
Wonderful revolver. I first saw it fire on a pistol range in Long Beach, CA, when I was younger and I had a Webley .455 automatic pistol, I was shooting. Both really well made firearms. The Webley .455 Self Loader will also chamber and single fire the .455 Webley revolver cartridge.
@Garrison Nichols Hence why he said "had it been earlier" Because had it come 20 years earlier before there were autoloaders, then it would've been a different story,
@Garrison Nichols Oh I agree with Mae and Othias when they say it's a great civilian gun, and a gun which would have seen far better civilian success had it come 20 years sooner. It was always going to be DOA for militaries.
Probably the most ridiculous firearms I know about that went into actual production. But that ridiculousness just adds to the awesomeness of the Webley revolver.
I noticed that the recoil sends a much more linear wave up Mae's arm in the slow motion shots. I took note when I first watched this video and went back to some other videos to confirm it. With other guns the recoil wave is much more upward then back. I brought it up because of your comments about it feeling different. Love your stuff as always.
There is a story recorded by Lord Alan Brooke, who became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in WW2. He visited Vimy Ridge on the western front where Churchill, in semi disgrace after Gallipoli, had taken up command of an infantry battalion. Churchill fond of gadgets (he had owned a C96, and later some sort of Colt automatic) was demonstrating a 'rather complicated automatic revolver' which then chain/slam fired. Churchill danced around holding it at the end of its lanyard much to the mirth of Alan Brooke and nearby troops. He was not best pleased. Always wondered, was this a Fosbery, or was it an automatic of some sort, 'revolver' being a term used in some British circles for any sort of pistol. Finally of course, the Fosbery was resuscitated by the Pakistan Hunting and Sporting Arms Development Company in Peshewar a few years back. Made in .455 and 38. Why they chose this handgun is unknown, unless it was to demonstrate their engineering skill. They also made a reproduction of the Tokarev TT33, again uncertain why given its availability as surplus. Sadly the new Fosbery had about as much success as the Webley original. I have one of the .455 guns, which seems very nicely made.
@@chrismc410 it was a fosbery, in one scene he even cocks it by grabbing pulling the barrel-upper assembly, which you can't do on a standard Webley. You could also see the cylinder grooves in that scene
Of note, there is apparently some record for speedshooting and loading with this gun and a speedloader. Wikipedia mentions it, but I have heard about it for like 20 years, since I first heard about them as a teenager.
Mateba made one improvement many years later: if the semiautomatic function failed for whatever reason their revolver, it can still be used as a conventional double-action revolver.
Oh MY !!! You put one of the shotguns you have been gathering for the new shotgun series between each of the normal rifles on your back wall !!! Are you flexing that you now have all you need to start making that show !?!?!?!?!?!?!?
It seems to be a gun that shows up a lot in video games and movies. I think because it is one sexy and powerful looking revolver that is also semi-exotic looking.
Can I ask , again , why this revolver is in almost every WWI videogame ? .Even being placed in Battlefield 1 over an actual Webley model , it needing to be added to a DLC ? .
I have always wondered how that zig zag worked. I'd think the friction would make it difficult and oiling it is just asking for trouble as it is external. However, it seems to travel easily with just your hand pushing it back.
@@MandoWookie Hot damn. We had snow over the weekend as well but it didn't get below 20. An evil part of me wishes it would get that cold just to watch all hell break loose. We had 2+ feet of snow 2 years ago and you would've thought it was the end of the world.
Thank you folks for an absolutely superb episode ,they were developed a short 20 miles away from where i live in the Gun Quarter of Birmingham,I Have a vague recollection of reading many years ago that the fledgeling Royal Flying Corps pilots and navigators may have purchased some however that would be possibly be private purchase (they were using winchesters and elephant guns in the early days of the RFC which became the RAF in 1918 ! )
That’s the sort of big and heavy gun you’d see in an old black & white Superman episode. One where the Man of Steel stands defiant as bullets harmlessly ricochet off his chest. But once the villain runs out of bullets, he pitches the gun at Superman... who ducks. Cus the bullets can’t hurt him, but a big ass Webley on its own can do some damage. Maybe it was made of Kryptonite
@C&Rsenal Wiltshire England, Othais. George Fosburry was born in Wiltshire England, in no small part because there is no Wiltshire in Ireland. Very few people are born each year in Irish counties that don’t exist. There is a “Wiltshire Farm Foods” in Ireland but that’s because Wiltshire is a family name there, so nobody’s born in Wiltshire Ireland but several Wiltshires are born in Ireland each year.
A neat handgun that ended up falling short despite a lot of good intentions and hard work. This was an interesting episode, I’m excited to see what’s coming up, I feel like we’re starting to get down to the wire.
We already got the 1911, Episode 128. More seriously, it is coming (he had a planned trip to get his hands on some rare versions in the spring but then 2020 happened and canned that) but don’t hold your breath. Othais has said that he doesn’t want to just rehash what has already been done in 50,000 RUclips videos on the M1911 already. So that episode (or series thereof) is likely to need a lot of work and time to make (such as getting his hands on early developmental models or getting good primary data not well known). Plus while the US history is quite well documented, there are also Russian, French, and British usage in WWI (at least) hopefully even getting his hands on a .455 Auto version.
@@88porpoise and if he doesn't want to rehash other videos he needs to get hold of at least as many versions as Ian did in the Forgotten Weapons video on the 1911 development process.
The question I have for Othais and Mae, is did this one need as much timing work as the other Webley revolvers? I believe you had mentioned in the Webley episode that all the top break revolvers had a tendency of going out of time. With the stud/track keeping it in time, I can't imagine it would be as significant an issue. But, I could be completely wrong on this one.
I whish you had a slow-motion shot also for the ejection mechnism, thas was somehow missing (often you also have slomw-mo-ejects on the other episodes.
Would you guys say this kinda falls into the same kind of follies that the gas seal revolvers ran into? Try to chase a single advantage presented by automatics (locked breach, recoil mitigation/Single Action pull every time), but end up sacrificing way too much for that niche advantage (trigger weight and overall handling, losing reliability)?
You know, this reminds me of a duck-billed platypus. A simiauto revolver is just such an odd idea it sounds made up but it exists, and it fills a class with only a few others.
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Brings me back to Othias reiterating how daunting this series became, starting with "Yeah this'll be easy, there were like 5 guns total in World War 1," and here we are today.
I just want the 1911 episode, sometime before I die. I’m in my 40s, there’s a chance I’ll make it...
@@harmlesscreationsofthegree1248 You're gonna have great-great grandkids by the time that happens man.
@Doom Between Othias saying they're going to do some post WW1 guns in the post video updates, and the Tokarev strategically placed on the gun rack behind him these past few episodes, methinks you may not need to wait so long...
I can do a video on the weapons of World War IV. It’s easy, pointed sticks, rocks and the occasional bow and arrow.
@Doom 2060* let's not forget the interwar, and neutrals' guns.
Hello. As ever, this was another college class to me. I am European, but in the country where I am, we can not own guns almost of any kind, and it happens that I always loved guns, their mechanics, history, etc. This channel has been a land of learning in this field of knowledge that I love so much. Being a simple school low rank worker, this is like a land of milk and honey to me. 1000 Thanks!!
The only engravings to give you a tactical advantage
More specifically, the type of engraving that allows the weapon to function.
Just don't twist your elbow with this one... maybe
Indeed, tactical runic inscriptions.
Shhh roman numerals & latin script boost morale under stress
Just like my oriental tapestries
The thought of an 8 shot Webley in 38 ACP fed with moon clips is very intriguing
You bet. I did not even know it did exists...
I am shipping out to Navy Boot Camp tomorrow, and this is the one episode I have been looking forward to the most. Thank you, Othias, May, Suzie, Bruno, and the rest of the gang. I will miss you.
The important thing is to float.
The second most important thing is ensure you knot the right end of the squid.
One of the most unique revolver designs out there gets a full episode from C&Rsenal complete with shooting, full technical breakdown and an explination history not well understood? Heck yeah!
This is me engaging RUclips, don't be a jerk to this channel.
Un jerked. Oh, wait. Never mind.
Hear, Hear!
I’m engaging with you engaging
@@MilStdNZ Oh, no, now I have to engage with you engaging to be engaged.
Agreed! This is one of my TOP TIERED channels.
“Try to make one.”
The mark of a true engineer, shows that he’s not a salesman with engineering capabilities
the mark of a man with a limited skill set. really not a complicated weapon to build. especially given todays machinery. youre average tormach owner could make a webley.
@@DieselRamcharger these days, yes it probably isn’t too hard, but what about back then?
@@elijahaitaok8624 that wasnt the qualifier. gotta stop moving the goal post.
@@DieselRamcharger well if it isn’t so difficult to make these day, then why aren’t you chomping at the bits to make them? You’d make a killing selling repros I’m sure
@@elijahaitaok8624 i own a machine shop, making these is well within my capability. however, i have absolutely zero desire to do firearms work. which is some of the lowest profit most tightly regulated shit on the planet. Its absolutely not worth it. The only thing that makes a webley cool is its story. A cheap knock off would be just that. Why even bother?
Every single inch of that letter at the beginning is sheer perfection. From the Crozier with a helmet stamp, to the letter coming from “My Dope Place.” You truly made something beautiful.
Have I watched the previous Webley episodes? Possibly but sounds like a good time to have a quick review.
Happens to me all the time with C&Rsenal. The episodes are so dense with information and spaced out, I need a refresher
69th like mate. and this is a real good series, so hats off to Othias!
Fosbery was about a decade late in his design. Had the guns existed in the early- to mid-1890's, they would've been superior to every true automatic in existence at the time.
I don’t see it being more than a very niche product at any time.
The additional complication and cost along with the disadvantages of such an external action are a lot for the fairly minor benefit over a decently designed DA/SA revolver.
While always having a SA trigger pull immediately is an advantage, I suspect it really wasn’t a big deal in practice. If you have time to take careful aim to really benefit from the single action you probably can thumb back the hammer without much issue. If you don’t have time to thumb back the hammer, it is probably a brown pants moment and the accuracy benefit of single action probably isn’t a major concern. Certainly far less of a concern than the fatal consequence of it failing to cycle properly.
Not really. By 1896, Mauser's C96 came out and proved not only a semiautomatic pistol was possible but could be simplified and much more easily mass-produced and far more reliable than the Borschardt C93 from three years earlier. One Winston Churchill and others in the Boer Wars showed what the C96 could do in actual combat.
With those things as factors, the Webley-Fosbery was only ever going to be a compromise between the traditional revolver user and the up and coming semiautomatic pistol for those who won't give up the revolver but want the semiautomatic speed.
Maybe 2 decades...
One of those neat/great ideas that came too late. Reminds me of Mannlicher in that regard.
Even then it was never going to be a game changer like auto loaders were. Just a good revolver. Would've been great for the old west and for some classic banditry, little less so in a large scale battle.
The Fosberries shoot like Fosberries...
I'm freakin out man
@@rhekman you are freaking out, man.
Make a wish, count to three
You boys like Mexico?
Fosberry?!? Who ever heard of a Fosberry?
Levels of excitement
-sees post notification yells hell ya in the car
-see the title presides to to yell more with excitement
Holy shit, I was just looking into this revolver and this history, how come every time I look into an obscure WWI-era revolver you guys post a Primer episode on it shortly after? I swear, you are psychic, you mystical guinea pig man, you.
It’s the magic blueberries man. Blue Pill? 😳
I'll admit, I'm glad I found this series. It's so detailed and informative, plus with Othai's narration and commentary make it really easy to watch.
C&Rsenal: my source for understanding all the obscure design in firearms. Thanks for being around.
I see a Webley Fosbery I immediately upvote! A semi-auto revolver - Steampunk before "Steampunk" even became a term!
If I'm writing an Edwardian adventure, my heroine has a Webley-Fosberry and a Mauser C96.
Good lord, the number of guns on the wall exploded! Did I miss this earlier or did it just happen this episode?
They are gearing up for a large shotgun series. Othias has had to keep quiet(ish) about it so he can get ahold of the shotguns and not have assholes bid up those shotguns arbitrarily on different auction sites. They had a Q&A about that issue several months back
So many shotguns!
It seems like they've doubled between episodes, I agree.
I knew he was doing a shotgun series, but holy hell that's a LOT of shotguns.
They've been breeding... be afraid. Be very afraid. ;-)
43:00 Now roll that beautiful slow-mo footage... With a high enough bore axis to make a Sig blush.
Saw one of these being used on the range at Bisley back in 1983, everyone was fascinated by it and, luckily, the owner wasn’t too bothered by the crowd that gathered around in order to look at it.
Thanks for another great episode, I love the contrast between your professionalism (meticulously researched history and detailed technical descriptions) and regular moments of comedic farce such as that letter. Also until you posted the 300k subscribers podcast I didn’t realise how much you had sacrificed to make this series, my deepest thanks for all your hard work it has certainly helped to greatly expand my knowledge of WW1 firearms. I am really looking forward to your Q &A and happily I have a (hopefully reasonably interesting) question which I have been thinking about for several years and now I finally have an opportunity to ask. I suspect it will be an interesting video to watch.
Did Othias say that Fosbery was born in "Wiltshire, Ireland"? Or did I hear it wrong?
Yes. He's not Irish. He was born in Wiltshire, England.
I was rewatching Project Lightening when this popped into my sub feed. I'm not sleeping until half past midnight and I don't care.
I still want to call it Project Lightning.
Engagement comment. This series deserves it.
The mechanics of this revolver are amazing. Such a work of art! I couldn't wait to see the slow mo of Mae shooting, but I did wait, because I wanted to understand it first. Wow that thing is amazing!
Another in depth, well researched, informative and excellent video. Kudos to Mae's shooting...again. As always, an excellent video.
Also, apparently now I'm writing a letter to my parents.
thank you Phoenix Phat for loan and helping the show
Born Stert in Wiltshire which is not in Ireland, It`s about 18 miles from where I`m sat. Love the Video`s keep up the good work :-)
55:55 The locked cylinder also has an advantage in this situation. If the cylinder rotation lug at the bottom is solid and not spring-loaded (hard to see in enough detail to tell, but it looks to be solid), the pistol would be difficult to close without manually lining up the lug with the external cylinder rotation tracks before snapping it into place - and any mistake in alignment could result in accelerated wear of the lug and cylinder, if not immediate damage.
Since my truck is frozen in place and I can't get to work tomorrow... I might as well watch this primer
It's great that the cylinder design is being used on the 3D printed revolving shotgun!
As always, loving the content that C&Rsenal puts out.
Really nice, held one of a Dutch collector last year. There are only a few of them in the Netherlands
Probably boer war captures...
@@howler6490 😂
A fresh Primer on a snow day. Life is complete.
Wonderful revolver. I first saw it fire on a pistol range in Long Beach, CA, when I was younger and I had a Webley .455 automatic pistol, I was shooting. Both really well made firearms. The Webley .455 Self Loader will also chamber and single fire the .455 Webley revolver cartridge.
It’s a cool concept, and had it been a bit earlier to the market it might have taken off.
@Garrison Nichols Hence why he said "had it been earlier"
Because had it come 20 years earlier before there were autoloaders, then it would've been a different story,
@Garrison Nichols Oh I agree with Mae and Othias when they say it's a great civilian gun, and a gun which would have seen far better civilian success had it come 20 years sooner.
It was always going to be DOA for militaries.
The life and death of fosbery is tragic in many ways, the life of inventors is one of my favorite parts.
Probably the most ridiculous firearms I know about that went into actual production.
But that ridiculousness just adds to the awesomeness of the Webley revolver.
Awesome revolver-
I loved learning more about the history of this!
One of the coolest, impractical guns ever. I was going to buy one but my wife insisted on making our mortgage payment instead.
Sneak a wee portion aside every month. She doesn't need to know. 😉
I noticed that the recoil sends a much more linear wave up Mae's arm in the slow motion shots. I took note when I first watched this video and went back to some other videos to confirm it. With other guns the recoil wave is much more upward then back. I brought it up because of your comments about it feeling different. Love your stuff as always.
There is a story recorded by Lord Alan Brooke, who became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in WW2. He visited Vimy Ridge on the western front where Churchill, in semi disgrace after Gallipoli, had taken up command of an infantry battalion. Churchill fond of gadgets (he had owned a C96, and later some sort of Colt automatic) was demonstrating a 'rather complicated automatic revolver' which then chain/slam fired. Churchill danced around holding it at the end of its lanyard much to the mirth of Alan Brooke and nearby troops. He was not best pleased. Always wondered, was this a Fosbery, or was it an automatic of some sort, 'revolver' being a term used in some British circles for any sort of pistol.
Finally of course, the Fosbery was resuscitated by the Pakistan Hunting and Sporting Arms Development Company in Peshewar a few years back. Made in .455 and 38. Why they chose this handgun is unknown, unless it was to demonstrate their engineering skill. They also made a reproduction of the Tokarev TT33, again uncertain why given its availability as surplus. Sadly the new Fosbery had about as much success as the Webley original. I have one of the .455 guns, which seems very nicely made.
Came for the obscure British revolver, stayed just in case Othias decided to go full Zardoz and wear a red nappy.
Can't..... unsee....
Aaaaah my eyyyyyes
Wasn't Sir Sean's Webley a regular Mark VI in that one
@@chrismc410 it was a fosbery, in one scene he even cocks it by grabbing pulling the barrel-upper assembly, which you can't do on a standard Webley. You could also see the cylinder grooves in that scene
Came to comments to make a Zardoz reference in case there somehow wasn't one.
Thank you for this awesome history of my great-Grampa…George Vincent Fosbery… my name being George Fosbery.
Of note, there is apparently some record for speedshooting and loading with this gun and a speedloader. Wikipedia mentions it, but I have heard about it for like 20 years, since I first heard about them as a teenager.
I’ve been having a hard day. This will cheer me up, thanks guys 👍
Fosberys life would make a good movie , like so many others lives as well. Arthur Savage comes to mind among others.
Mateba made one improvement many years later: if the semiautomatic function failed for whatever reason their revolver, it can still be used as a conventional double-action revolver.
I had no expectation we'd get a primer on one of these. I'm stoked you folks were able to get your hands on one.
All thanks to PhoenixPhart, that dude is a natural with guns. I think he did a video with him shooting it upside down and nailing the paddle target.
Oh MY !!! You put one of the shotguns you have been gathering for the new shotgun series between each of the normal rifles on your back wall !!! Are you flexing that you now have all you need to start making that show !?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Sean Connery used a Webley Fosbery in the movie Zardoz.
The era weapon evaluation and procurement process was a little odd back in the day.
It seems to be a gun that shows up a lot in video games and movies.
I think because it is one sexy and powerful looking revolver that is also semi-exotic looking.
About the only good thing in that movie!
Thankfully we were spared Othias cosplaying that. I was slightly worried by the possibility ...
@@dr.donaldhurley2922 That, and Charlotte Rampling!
Can I ask , again , why this revolver is in almost every WWI videogame ? .Even being placed in Battlefield 1 over an actual Webley model , it needing to be added to a DLC ? .
Rule of Cool.
It is not even that cool .And they sacrifice basically any left-swing out cylinder revolver to add this hunk of junk .
This was one of my favorite sidearms in Battlefield.
I have always wondered how that zig zag worked. I'd think the friction would make it difficult and oiling it is just asking for trouble as it is external. However, it seems to travel easily with just your hand pushing it back.
Do you have any information on fosberies exploding bullet??
Snowed in for the next three days and this drops. God is truly kind to his children.
Where are you that you got snowed in?
@@atfyoutubedivision955 Arkansas. Rocking -15 degrees Fahrenheit in a place that rarely drops below freezing the last several winters.
@@MandoWookie Hot damn. We had snow over the weekend as well but it didn't get below 20. An evil part of me wishes it would get that cold just to watch all hell break loose. We had 2+ feet of snow 2 years ago and you would've thought it was the end of the world.
Ahh... the Webly, good show old bean!
Thank you folks for an absolutely superb episode ,they were developed a short 20 miles away from where i live in the Gun Quarter of Birmingham,I Have a vague recollection of reading many years ago that the fledgeling Royal Flying Corps pilots and navigators may have purchased some however that would be possibly be private purchase (they were using winchesters and elephant guns in the early days of the RFC which became the RAF in 1918 ! )
I wonder how often those speed-loaders were actually used in combat (not just for fosberry, but for webleys in general).
Ever time a video drops its like a Christmas morning
Like, and I haven't even watched yet. Guaranteed quality and Guaranteed enjoyment.
I've always liked top break revolvers, does anyone know of one that shoots modern /available cartridges?
Webley
I love both of you guys and the content you do, but a picture of Crozier in a Brodie was definitely the best part of the whole episode.
That’s the sort of big and heavy gun you’d see in an old black & white Superman episode. One where the Man of Steel stands defiant as bullets harmlessly ricochet off his chest. But once the villain runs out of bullets, he pitches the gun at Superman... who ducks. Cus the bullets can’t hurt him, but a big ass Webley on its own can do some damage. Maybe it was made of Kryptonite
Heck yeah! I’ve always been sooo interested in these things!
I love your reprocussions series, but I am veeeery excited for the repeating shotguns. Great episode as always btw. Thank you.
hell yes a new episode. always makes my day when you guys upload
@C&Rsenal Wiltshire England, Othais. George Fosburry was born in Wiltshire England, in no small part because there is no Wiltshire in Ireland. Very few people are born each year in Irish counties that don’t exist. There is a “Wiltshire Farm Foods” in Ireland but that’s because Wiltshire is a family name there, so nobody’s born in Wiltshire Ireland but several Wiltshires are born in Ireland each year.
I thought I'd misheard him at first
@@NM-wd7kx I rewound to be sure.
No time for snail mail when I have a new primer to watch
A neat handgun that ended up falling short despite a lot of good intentions and hard work. This was an interesting episode, I’m excited to see what’s coming up, I feel like we’re starting to get down to the wire.
First thought on seeing the YT alert: I have been waiting for you! Literally looked of you had an episode on this last week :)
I was wondering when the next video was coming. I always enjoy learning about the history of these firearms.
Mae plus obscure /funky looking weapons always click and like.
Thank you C&Rsenal for yet another informative and entertaining video.
Love your work guys
I was hoping for a gonzo reference to the Pancor Jackhammer around 12:38 lol
Is he ever gonna just get the 1911 out of the way or is that gonna be like the final or something.
We already got the 1911, Episode 128.
More seriously, it is coming (he had a planned trip to get his hands on some rare versions in the spring but then 2020 happened and canned that) but don’t hold your breath. Othais has said that he doesn’t want to just rehash what has already been done in 50,000 RUclips videos on the M1911 already. So that episode (or series thereof) is likely to need a lot of work and time to make (such as getting his hands on early developmental models or getting good primary data not well known). Plus while the US history is quite well documented, there are also Russian, French, and British usage in WWI (at least) hopefully even getting his hands on a .455 Auto version.
I am sure that the Temperature death of the Universe will happen the week before the 1911 episode .
@@88porpoise and if he doesn't want to rehash other videos he needs to get hold of at least as many versions as Ian did in the Forgotten Weapons video on the 1911 development process.
The work for the 1911 episode was to be started last year, but then everything happened.
Love the info I get from all these the episodes.
Educational and engaging content as always!
Wheelie gats are dope don’t get me wrong but when can we get some of those Crozier stamps?
Always great to see you guys. Love the channel
The question I have for Othais and Mae, is did this one need as much timing work as the other Webley revolvers? I believe you had mentioned in the Webley episode that all the top break revolvers had a tendency of going out of time. With the stud/track keeping it in time, I can't imagine it would be as significant an issue. But, I could be completely wrong on this one.
This unit needed no timing work, and is spot on, even with the owners insistence on shooting it a LOT.
@@marknovak8255 Thank you! A rare benefit of that exposed zig-zag pattern indeed!
I figured Mae would dress up as Mary Astor for the range segment.
Or a Steam Punk cowboy.
Better Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon than Sean Connery in Zardoz...........................
@@easyfiveOsink should've had Othias in the zardoz costume.
@@ProSimex84 not Mae? I have the weirdest feeling in my tummy.
Every other Tuesday is my favorite day on RUclips. (Here's to helping the algorithm)
I whish you had a slow-motion shot also for the ejection mechnism, thas was somehow missing (often you also have slomw-mo-ejects on the other episodes.
Would you guys say this kinda falls into the same kind of follies that the gas seal revolvers ran into? Try to chase a single advantage presented by automatics (locked breach, recoil mitigation/Single Action pull every time), but end up sacrificing way too much for that niche advantage (trigger weight and overall handling, losing reliability)?
"I'm sorry Mr. Webley. The King's Army could not adopt your pistol because it did not scratch all of our itches."
Great episode!
Dear god, a true unicorn, unique revolver and we get a full episode on it. Thank you guys so much
0:03 Be careful, Mae! Those Webley Fosbery wheel guns have been known to fire when closing the action.
Ah, the semi-auto .45 episode everyones actually been waiting for
I can see more why this existed now than before the episode, but it's still a pretty high ratio of added complexity to added utility for a revolver.
What kind of putz would give a thumbs down to a C&Rsenal video? Seriously, this is some of best content on all of RUclips.
Keep up the good work guys!
You know, this reminds me of a duck-billed platypus. A simiauto revolver is just such an odd idea it sounds made up but it exists, and it fills a class with only a few others.
Fascinating! I did not know about this weapon. Thanks for the detailed info on this Automatic Revolver ? Autovoler? Revomatic? Auto-Revolver?
I haven't even watched the video just the first 30sec, and I'm sold. That thing is just beautiful. I don't know what it is but it just looks amazing!
And just for all the RUclips asses I'm talking about the gun not the girl.
She is pretty but I can't afford her lol.
Ha-ha, such a warm "sorry" from Mae at the end.
They're teasing us with all the shotguns stacked on the background
Have I watched this yet? Nope. Have I liked? Heck yeah I have! Keep up the excellent work guys!
Thanks for your time to research this revolver and nice shooting as always mae