http://en.wikipedi...Automatic_Revolver

I just found out about this gun, which was used by Sean Connery's character in the film 'Zardoz', and was also in the classic film 'The Maltese Falcon'. It looks interesting. Have any of you ever seen one, and how practical would something like this be, say, perhaps, as a carry pistol? Here's a video of one in operation...

http://www.youtube...atch?v=HSPIhHFtLX0

While it's a beautiful collector's piece.
It's no carry gun.
Carry a Smith or a Glock.

Its a cool piece being a part of history and all, but its probably small caliber like .38acp which is known to be a hole puncher. I wouldn't carry it for self defense.

Yeah, the .38 is just that - .38ACP and it's fed via an 8 round full-moon clip.
It also comes in a 6-shot .455 Webley version.

It sounds REALLY complicated and difficult to use:
The frame of the Webley-Fosbery is divided into two parts: the upper "receiver," which includes the pistol's barrel, cylinder, hammer mechanism, and opening latch; and the lower "frame," which includes its trigger mechanism, safety lever, and handle. The trigger is single-action, but only in the same sense that the Colt Government Model's is, because the Webley-Fosbery is a kind of semi-automatic pistol.

Once this pistol is loaded, it is cocked by pushing its entire upper "receiver" section all the way to the rear of its lower "frame" section. The upper receiver is then returned to battery by the pressure of a spring in the frame.

When the receiver is moved rearward in its frame – by the recoil of a just-fired cartridge, for instance – a cam pin fixed in the frame rides in zig-zag slots in the outer surface of the pistol's cylinder, and the cylinder is revolved half-way toward the next chamber. While this is going on, the pistol's hammer is being cocked as well. As the frame-mounted spring returns the receiver forward into battery, the cam pin forces the cylinder to revolve the rest of the way, and the weapon is ready to fire its next shot.

The Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver. It does not do, after loading, to merely manually cock this gun's hammer. That's because there is no way to be absolutely sure, as the barrel-and-cylinder assembly is being closed, that one of the cylinder's chambers is properly lined up with the barrel. Also, the Webley-Fosbery's hammer has absolutely nothing to do with rotating its cylinder. Thus the Webley-Fosbery "Automatic Revolver" is meant to be loaded, push-cocked, and then carried at full cock, ready to fire. That's why this peculiar single-action revolver has a safety-catch on the left side of its frame, and needs it.