pistol lanyard

[chuck]

Does anyone know how the lanyard for an enfield / webley is constructed ?

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[Peter Laidler]

Simple. Best described in pictorial form in the Skennerton/Stamps book. Simple to machine up too

[Brian Dick]

If it's the actual lanyard and not the lanyard swivel you're referring to, it's a braided rope with stops that slide on it.

[Peter Laidler]

Ah, yes, the actual landyard itself........ When we carried them we used to loop a longer home-made landyard around our waists, through the loop and into the holster.

One of the Pom train guards on the night sleeper from the North to Singapore had his revolver stolen by a passenger on the train who, so said, walked past him, nudging him as he went and sliced the landyard. Then got off the train at Segamat. It was loaded too. Needless to say the proverbial hit the fan and thereafter, they were chained with a closed loop sort of toilet chain, looped, you stood in the loop, pulled it up to your waist, took up the slack, made sure that there was enough slack to aim and fire then holster the pistol.

Good times........ Nope, crap!

[browningautorifle]

Attachment 54181 Is this the lanyard which we seek?

[Brian Dick]

Thats the one BAR.

I was issued a 1911A1 with one loaded magazine several times as a young armorer in the 82nd Airborne when we were in the field or had unsecure arms rooms on some of the old training bases in CONUS and elsewhere. I remember the arms room officer calling it a "dummy string". Of course, the U.S. lanyard was just a rinky dink little green piece of what looked like looped para cord with a metal snap that clipped on the mainspring housing of the pistol. When I told him that it should be referred to as a pistol lanyard, he told me it was a dummy string in his opinion because it's sole purpose was that the dummy wouldn't lose his pistol!! Who was I to argue? That term was also applied to the lanyard on the lensatic compass.

[browningautorifle]

And he should know, most officers had their pistol picked up for them by a senior NCO at one time or another...or their rifle or their rucksack...