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#300946 11/18/12 10:19 PM
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Does anyone know who is making the guns for the new Webley and Scott?

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The new Webley guns are manufactured by Akus in Turkey. This is the same manufacturer that built the sidelock doubles for Kimber and Hatfield and the boxlocks for Smith & Wesson (which are now imported as "Dickinson" and can be found at Cabelas Fine Gun Library).

These guns are quite impressive... especially for the money. And I've heard nothing but good things about reliability.

Here is the current line-up from Akus.
















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That last gun looks like a twin to the S&W.

Can't comment on the guns they're producing as Webley and Scotts. However, some of the S&W doubles they made had really heavy trigger pulls. Other than that, however, those were pretty decent guns. But neither the S&W's nor the Kimbers sold well at all, until they were very deeply discounted. The Ruffed Grouse Society bought a bunch of the Kimbers for banquet guns or for those who bought a life membership, and had a hard time getting rid of them.

The problem is that the Turks have established they can make guns that will sell in the $1K range, give or take a little. They haven't yet established that they can make sidelocks that will sell for the same money as something like an AyA #2. Maybe they'll get there eventually. But until they do, there will eventually be some real deals on these guns--when they drop the prices to a point at which they'll sell. The S&W's were initially targeted at the mid-$2K price range. Sounded good, less than an AyA 4/53, and a pretty handsome package. But most of them ended up selling for more like $1200.


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