I’m glad someone noticed that, as that’s not the only problem with the barrel swapping theory (that’s actually what brought me to this forum today). The other issue is that the barrel was clearly marked as .455, and to the best of my knowledge Smith & Wesson did not make any .455 Webley/Eley rev...

I agree they would have asked for a 4” Smith & Wesson, my only question is whether Stembridge happened to have one. As stated in my previous comment, in Great Britain a lot of WWII guns were being heavily modified with respect to barrel lengths, sights, etc., and so it doesn’t surprise me that B...

I think the real question is, which came first, the Bapty, or the Stembridge? As JPDesign notes, after the First World War it was not altogether uncommon for 1917s or Second Model Hand Ejectors to be customized in a variety of ways, such as by shortening the barrel, and/or very commonly removing the...