" orders now being taken for a detailed all metal replica of this most interesting pistol ( arguably the most silent of silenced pistols ) manufactured by time served engineers in the UK . No licence required . £480 "
Page 308 .
I was always fascinated by these pistols having read about them in various WW2 books , and having used them extensively ......
( ..... whilst playing Medal of Honour on the xbox ) good gun too , quiet , powerful and effective !!
32 acp or 9 mm . Probably too much to expect these will accept cartridges : modelgun or blanks ? but an interesting and most unusual model to find as a replica nevertheless .
Carl.
Cerwyn Cerwyn (Site Admin)
Number of posts : 11073 Age : 65 Location / Country : North Wales Registration date : 2008-07-20
That's an interesting one! I did not know about Welrod existence before.
Even if it is an ad for a dummy version, it would still make a very nice modelgun. I hope the internals will be done as close to original as the law allows.
phobus Modelgun Master
Number of posts : 275 Age : 63 Location / Country : Leeds Registration date : 2008-10-21
I gather the Welrod was used for assassination purposes , being nearly silent in use . The enemies head , presumably being the last baffle in the silencer ...
I thought it was strictly a single shot weapon - don,t want no slides or actions moving about making lots of noise when the enemy are nearby !
However pics I found shows what looks like a magazine ??
I had imagined a v basic single shot weapon with a large silencer , and thats exactly how the Welrod appears .
Carl.
smootik Modelgun Perfectionist
Number of posts : 1823 Location / Country : Poland Registration date : 2009-03-03
I was very confused by that, too. Single-shot, but with a multi-round magazine. As Welrod is bolt-action weapon, maybe someone confused it with single-shot? Regardless of name, it seems to work just like bolt-action rifles with magazines (Mauser 98k).
2Sharp Modelgun Master
Number of posts : 229 Location / Country : The Swedish Kingdom Registration date : 2008-09-10
The Welrod remained "on the books" for UK special forces right up until the first Gulf War. Not as elegant a solution as the deLisle carbine - A Thompson barrel, perforated for an integral silencer, mounted on an SMLE stock and lockwork, modified to fire .45" ACP ammunition. Perfect for the quiet removal of sentries, and lethal out to a couple of hundred yards.
The guys who produced the Welrod also came up with the "Welbike", a diminuitive moped-like bike designed to transport clandestine parachutists away from their drop zones. NOT a huge sucess, although it arguably DID result in there being mopeds!
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lampwick Modelgun Master
Number of posts : 359 Location / Country : UK Registration date : 2008-09-11
Subject: Enjoy Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:13 pm
Bought out of it's resting place in the sock drawer for umpteen years. Quite rare in that it's a MkII chambered for 9mm which was usually found in the later MkI (yes I know, confusing isn't it?)
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claymore Modelgun Perfectionist
Number of posts : 1233 Age : 63 Location / Country : London Registration date : 2008-09-07
The handle is the magazine and you have to manually turn (to unlock) the breech and feed another cartridge into the chamber.
I've handled a few but sadly never fired one. [yet..]
One pretty obvious error however: S.O.,E. were pretty insistant about their comma! They were "Special Operations, Executive." (The comma makes the "Executive" an adjective, rather than a noun.) The Timelapse website has carelessly and repeatedly LEFT OUT THEIR COMMA!
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pitfighter Modelgun Master
Number of posts : 616 Location / Country : Hollywood, California Registration date : 2008-09-07
It's a one off that a chap I met at a Militaria show made. He contacted me after to say that he'd made one and was I interested? What do you think? It may be for sale (in the UK, sorry) later as I'm after a rather expensive German Dress Dagger and need to free up some cash.
Ron Walker New Member
Number of posts : 26 Location / Country : Isle of Man Registration date : 2015-09-03
An interesting alternative might be the QSPR., designed in-theatre for use by American "Tunnel Rats" in Vietnam.Underground, you navigate almost as much with your ears as with your eyes... firing a .45" standard issue M1911 would leave you temporarily blind and deaf. Stick a surpressor onto the front of the (already long) M1911, and it becomes impractically ponderous.The solution they came up with was.... silent ammunition!!! You start with a large frame revolver. You load it with what amount to "Plug Fire Caps", which you've had especially made. When the hammer drops onto the primer, the main charge goes off... and drives forward a piston, ahead of which sit several heavy balls (either steel or lead) The piston drives forward for the full length of the cartridge, where it meets a "crimp", which brings it to an abrupt halt - with the expanded gas still trapped behind it. The rapid forward movement of the piston has propelled the spherical projectile(s) forward, through the short, smooth-bore barrel. QSPR = Quiet Special Purpose Revolver.
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pitfighter Modelgun Master
Number of posts : 616 Location / Country : Hollywood, California Registration date : 2008-09-07
Some simunition works in a similar way. A miniature piston, just two inches of movement, but enough to cycle an AR, or MP5 with reduced pressure springs.
Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:50 pm
) good gun too , quiet , powerful and effective !! 
