The Webley RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) model was Webley's first double-action revolver, and adopted by RIC in 1868, hence the name. It was a solid frame, gate-loaded revolver, chambered in .442 Webley. It had three separate generations which are most easily distinguished by the cylinder design: the "First Pattern" which had the cylinder stop notches at the front, the "Second Pattern" where they were moved to the rear, and the "New Model" which had a longer fluted cylinder. General George Armstrong Custer was known to have owned a pair, which he used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
