My curiousity has had me want the NAA mini in .22 short and the Beretta 950 in .22 short. There is .22 short ammo out there with claimed rifle velocities matching .22 LR standard velocity ammo. Plus, I like shooting .22 short out of my Ruger Bearcat Shopkeeper due to the short ejection rod.
The thing that stops me from getting a .22 short in a pocket gun for
carry is the velocity numbers are low, which means the muzzle energy numbers are low. Basically 700 fps and 33 fpe. Which is only about twice as powerful as what a common pellet shooting air rifle can do.
https://northamericanarms.com/ballistics/ball-22s/
So, I still go back to my remaining .32 ACP pocket pistol instead (Taurus TCP 732). Which is estimated to produce figures of 780 fps and 100 fpe. All with a jacketed bullet that will penetrate deeper.
In some informal and unscientific testing between my old NAA Guardian in .32 ACP and my Beretta Bobcat in .22 LR (shown
here), I still have this photo below of bullets fired into phone books. The bullet on the far right is a CB "short". The .32 didn't deform and went much deeper than any of the .22 ammo pictured even though it was fired from a short barrel, too.
If someone made a modern short cylinder "mini" revolver in .32 ACP, I'd probably buy it. Just because.
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