Bulldog from Forehand and Wadsworth

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Doc Hoy

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Came home with a .44 Webley British Bulldog from the Forehand and Wadsworth company.






Revolver was in a gun shop in Ivor, VA for repair. Repairs complete. Owner contacted repeatedly over a two year period with no response. His loss. My gain.

Along with the pistol I got 250 rounds of .44 Webley loaded with black powder.

Not certain what I am going to do with this revolver. At a hundred and a half, I could not pass up the deal. I don't think I want to get started loading .44 Webley. These cases are various headstamps and all are marked .44 S&W Special so they were cut down to Webley length.

I may shoot it up and then retire the revolver to the wall and sell the brass.
 
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thickice

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I have the same revolver in .38 S&W. Fun to shoot with light BP loads. I have read that the F&W was the best of the "foreign" copies. If you get the chance read "The British Bulldog" by George Layman.
 
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Strafer Gott

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I'm always surprised that there aren't more of these critters around. Mine has "British Bulldog" stamped into the top strap. I fire the Speer plastic munitions.
That's about as far as I'd go.
 
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toolslinger

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That is freakin awesome. I always thought the history of those little guns was cool. I wish I still had my Charter Arms.
 
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Doc Hoy

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Gary et al.

I have a lot of firearms which I have just come to accept won't be fired very much.

Of thirty cap and ball revolvers I shoot maybe five of them and the rest are in the wall cases.

I shoot three of my five rifles

I have about two dozen cartridge pistols and at this moment only half of them are shootable.

As I accumulate more and more weapons, I have to accept that the ones I shoot will be shot less. (Only so many hours in a day.)

This is likely one of the revolvers which I will probly put about two dozen rounds through and then just hang up. Maybe one day I will have a case for Bicycle revolvers, one for early twentieth century swing outs, a case for Bulldogs and similar and so on.

I must confess, I don't know when and where this will end. I simply can't look a pistol without wanting it.
 
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