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Hard usage and the humid jungle climate took their toll on all the old military rifles. Thus those few 7mm Salvadoran rolling block Rifles that made it to del Norte (“The North”) as surplus are normally discovered in rough, pitted condition. It is a fortunate collector who uncovers one of these prizes in anything better than good condition.

THE BullDog PACK: Variations of the Breed

BY GORDON BRUCE

Editor’s Note: Last year we presented George Layman’s piece on bulldog revolvers, written primarily from an American perspective. This year we offer yet another piece on Bulldogs, written by our British friend Gordon Bruce.

Since the creation of Webley’s compact little calibre .450 revolver named The British Bull Dog, its basic design has been copied and produced by many other gun manufacturers during the latter part of the nineteenth century.

The name had been registered as an official trade mark in Britain by Henry Webley himself, on behalf of the Birmingham firm, P. Webley & Son, on 12 March 1878. On that occasion, it was claimed to have been in regular use for the revolver since 1873. Webley had specified the title of BULL DOG as two separate words, rather than a single word, or joined by a hyphen. Thereafter, in firearms circles, it has become a generic term for nearly all short-nosed pocket revolvers.