Target Shooter 1

‘Support your local gun shop’
Westlake Engineering
Alan starts to strip a Buckmark
Westlake Engineering, Run by Alan Westlake
specialise in Target Pistols. In 1985 Alan
purchased “Britarms” and brought the .22
Britarms UIT Target Pistol back into production.
Up until the Pistol ban in 1997 Alan made
Britarms and converted S&W Revolvers for UIT type
shooting and for PPC and 1500 He also made a
name as one of the foremost Browning 9mm
“Tuners” setting them up for Service Pistol Shooting.
In 1996 Alan set up a Machine shop so that
he could do all his own machining without
having to borrow other peoples machines or buy in
machined parts. While getting out of the Kit car
business that was the other half of the work he did.
Shortly afterwards he developed a Two part
replacement Cylinder, for the Remington Army
Revolver, which uses Shotgun primers and
Nitro powder. This was followed by the Nitro
.38 Conversion, where the barrel is replaced
for a stainless steel Cal.38 Barrel and the
replacement cylinder is made to use .38
Wadcutter bullets. This being as close as you are
going to get to the S&W 38 we all love and lost.
Using this system Alan now converts Remington
Army, Rogers and Spencer and Ruger old Army
Revolvers. There is also a .38 S&W Spl Long
Pistol, based on a Remington Army Revolver.
Using the two part cylinder chambered for .38 spl.
In 2004 Alan produced the first .22 Britarms Long
Pistol and after a lengthy battle with the Home
Office ( Details are on the Westlake Engineering
website) was able to put it into the marketplace.
This then paved the way for the Buckmark .22
Long Pistol Conversion, As Browning were by
This proved to be a bad career move, as the
Pistol Ban closed his business down, not
helped by the Home Office, taking twelve
months to start to process his claim for
compensation for all the pistols and parts handed
in.
However, eventually Alan decided to start
making Black Powder Muzzle Loading
Pistols, producing the Phoenix, followed by the
Clubmaster, a simplified and cheaper pistol using
the same superb trigger system as the Phoenix.
Standard weight Buckmark
Nitro .38 Ruger Old Army
then, able to supply the base rifles for conversion.
These now form the bulk of the Long pistols
supplied, as they are half the price of a Britarms
which have now been taken out of production.
Alan will also modify pistols such as the Ruger
Redhawk, fitting Balance rods and shortening the
barrels back to 12 inches, or changing the Taurus
wrist brace to a straight balance rod and weight.
The latest product developed is the .357
Taurus Muzzle Loading Revolver. This is a
conversion of the .357magnum Taurus Long
Barrelled Revolver. Which has the Cylinder
removed and the crane modified to accept a new
Muzzle loading Cylinder, then the wrist brace is
removed and the Barrel shortened. A conversion
for the .44 Magnum will be available in the not too
distant future. http://westlakeengineering.com/
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