by B.B. Pelletier While I’m in New York filming the TV show, I thought you’d be interested in this lengthy article I wrote in 1998 for Airgun Revue #3 . Webley Senior with the so-called straight grip (even though it has a small backward rake). The Senior wasn’t my first Webley air pistol. I had owned two Premier Mark IIs–both in .177–before buying the first Senior. And before I saw that first one, I would have told anyone who asked that the Premier Mark II was a very nice airgun.