[cpileri]

Just curious...
Here's one I have not seen asked anywhere:
What is the HIGHEST capacity magazine or feeding device for the teeny-weenie 25 ACP?

What?They make mini-belt feds in all other calibers, why not 25ACP?
:)
C-

[The Rabbi]

Dont laugh. In my love for the underdog I decided that the .25acp had to have some kind of redeeming value. I decided I would fool around with handloads. So I contacted a bullet maker (forgot which one) and they told me they had made a run of cast .25 bullets for a full auto project. They abandoned the project when terminal performance was found to suck. But I still like the idea of a pistol about the size of a SIG 228 with a 30 round double stack mag, bipod and full auto capable. Maybe a belt-fed version to be in the offing.

[Gordon]

Don't ask me who or how, I THINK it was Tippmann but; some body made a 1/2 scale 1921 Thompson that had a drum mag and was in .25ACP. It was couple thousand bucks in 1980s or 70s! I saw one once more than 20 yearsa ago. :)

[GEM]

Hey - I once saw a brass and beautiful 22S gatling gun. It was a little thing. Only a few thousand bucks.

[cpileri]

I'm glad I am not the only one who thinks the 25ACP is cool.
It has potential, too.
It will probably never be a 45ACP, but with some spruced-up powders, modern designed ammo, and a decent platform with some really-high capacity feeding devices it could be at least a fun novelty gun.
Even a semi-auto would be kinda fun.
Although i have to say that the REAL potential in this round is probably for low-recoiling and super controllable FULL auto, while being supposedly more reliable than the 22LR's rimmed case.
Supposedly. I am not a manufacturer nor an expert on making reliable, ful auto rimfires. If it can easily be done with 22LR, well then the poor 25 has a hard act to follow.
But that's what I like about the round- its smallness. It is also low power, so it could be controllable in a super-lightweight platform rivalling the KelTec p32 but with a smaller profile and more ammo in the magazine.
I dunno.
I was hoping to find a cartridge with the same OAL of .910 as the 25acp, then seeing if a magazine form that one would load the 25. but so far no go.
C-

[pete f]

I lived in South Minneapolis for a long time, and across the alley from me was an old Czech guy who was a machinist for NWA, who made miniture
1/2 or 1/4 scale things for fun. One of the toys he made was a 25 cal. thompson that was about a foot long, fully operational, you had to use a pencil to pull the trigger. he made a bren gun that fired 22 cal. He got in trouble once when the ATF found out he was making machine guns, but to its credit, when they saw the stuff, he was encouraged to donate it to their museum and it all went away. later I found out he did some other stuff for them. when he passed many years ago, I found out from his widow he was in the process of making a 1/8 or 1/16 scale Tiger I tank. from scratch, the turret was about a foot and a half across, milled out of a single block
never found out what happened to that. His basement was like an operating room, so spotless, but it held a full machine shop. all the little jigs and fixtures, labeled and stacked.