I’d love to have an original British .455 Webley, especially one of the cased WS Target versions. These are available at very reasonable prices in the UK but they are not importable due to the ‘drop test’. (Colt SAAs also fail this test as I found out the hard way.) The “Fosberry” version, strangely, is importable but much more expensive.

I have a couple S&W triple locks and 2nd model hand ejectors in this caliber and they are a real pleasure to shoot. That 262 gr pill moving at 650 fps or so is certainly enough for self defense. The .455 was used in a multiple homicide in El Paso (or Albuquerque?) some years ago.

Elmer Keith in ‘Sixguns’ gives the .455 favorable mention and says it’s particularly good for shooting game birds (grouse I think he says) without destroying too much meat.

Another cartridge along the same lines is the .38/200 or .38 S&W. Big 200 grain slug lumbering along about 650-700. In a way these two are much more appealing than the .357 and .44 mag.