mouse(sized) guns - Downsizer
I've carried a Downsizer (also called the world's smallest pistol) as EDC for at least the last 5 years. It's just a shade smaller than a standard playing card (or a pack of old-style Camel unfiltered for the elder statespersons) and carries one
(yep! just one) center-fire pistol cartridge. Mine is .45 ACP.
You need a special, ubertactical deloading device to pry the cartridge brass out of the chamber after each shot. I use an urban-camoflaged one that resembles a BIC stick pen, unless you look close to see the powder accumulated on the blunt end.
There is a ball detent that holds the tip-up barrel in place. I can get off tactical reloads in about 10 seconds (think muzzle-loader only reallllly tiny) and my groups are less than 8 inches at 1.5 yards.
This is really a true belly gun - if you do not stick it in the BG's belly you are not goiung to be sure of hitting him (about 7/16ths inch on rifiling down the barrel - if that much). If you do touch it off at that range, the flash will do more damage than the bullet.
Besides my standing offer at the range - I'll pay you $5.00 if you fire it, reload and fire again in under 45 seconds, or you pay me $10.00 for the one shot -- I've only touched it off in anger once. Blew the living snot (on purpose) out of the air bag on my formerly classic Mercedes that got totalled in Hurricane Gaston. Center mass on the hub of the steering wheel from 2 inches! Lots of scorched leather, a great puff of whatever that powder is (cornstarch?) and a great feeling of having put a fine car out of its misery just before they hauled it away to the glue factory, or whatever they do with cars that have been sitting around growing mold after being drowned.
Oh - in case anybody wonders. I think my S&W 325PD has more felt recoil than the Downsizer, but everybody else that has ever tried it has only 2 words to say: "Day Yummmm." I think that's Southern for "owwie!" cause they are usually either holding their hand or doing that shaking it down like they were holding a giant thermometer movement. Over the years I've paid out $10.00 and collected enough to pay for lots of ammo for my other toys.
Come on out to Dominion Shooting Range in Richmond and try it out. Or just call them and ask if they have every shot that teeny-tiny little .45 and what did they think.
stay safe.
skidmark
