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I am sure that you will find that the Webley 700 derived from the pre-war Model 600, which has no screw grip or drop points. My late 1930s catalogue shows the Grade III Model 400 with ejectors selling at £24-0-0 and the Model 600 ejector at £16-0-0. Times were hard after the Depression...

Here in the UK (can't say GB now...) there are a few steel loads for the 2.5" cartridges at standard pressures. I have fired a few of these through the right barrel (3/8 choke) of my 600 with good results, but use Bismuth in the left full choke barrel.

The Superior proof loads at present are only in 2.75" are are unpleasant to fire.

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Interesting. Of course the 700 eventually evolved into a series of guns of different grades, as did the 400. The 700 was essentially the equivalent of the Grade III 400; the 702, which added drop points, better wood and more engraving like the Grade II 400; and the 701 as the top of the line of the 700 series, like the Grade I 400. I recently acquired a 720, which is a 702 made for the US market with 3" chambers. All the 720 guns--or at least those imported by Harrington and Richardson--were choked 1/4 and 3/4. Were I to shoot
nontoxic shot in mine, I would do as you have done: I'd be fine with steel in the R barrel, but I'd go with something like Bismuth or Tungsten Matrix in the more tightly choked L barrel.

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