i got a new Naa mini revolver in 22lr wow super small but alot of fun

I dont know how long they will hold up. They do seem well made though, and arent cheaply made. At least thats the impression I get from mine. Havent shot them a ton though.

I saw someone mention a $3 +/- ammo budget. Must be the long rifle prices. The mags are about 5 times that.

I could never effectively shoot my 22lr NAA mini revolver. I just couldn't get a good grip on it with my large hands. I put the black widow type rubber boot grip on it and can do relatively decent with it now. I tried the folding stock (grip) on the 22lr version but it made it bigger and bulkier than my 22mag version making it kind of pointless.

My 22mag NAA mini revolver is a different story though. All of its dimensions are just a little bigger than the 22lr version and I have been quite accurate with it since day one. My 22mag version does get carried when I am wearing athletic shorts.

I also has a sidewinder with a 2" barrel which does really well on the targets.

I wish I could afford a break top ranger model but it is too expensive of a toy for my budget.

I would pickup the 22 short version but it seems a waste since my hand is already too big for the 22lr version.



Some day when I have some free time I will experiment with making some of my own grips for my mini's. These just seem to beg to have an old western style forearm under the shirt sleeve pop out rig for them, don't they???

Blkhrt13 said:

I definitely want one as a back up for my backup. But they won’t hold up to a lot of use.seems like more of an emergency situation tool.

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I have 1,200 rounds through my 22 Short. The main spring broke around 850 rounds, I sent it to NAA and they put a new one in for free. Apart from the spring, everything else is still perfect. No signes of excessive wear.

That may not be the best example, since the 22 Short is the weakest of the offerings; not a whole lot of punishment per shot... though I still wouldn't hesitate to shoot the other ones a lot. They are built very solid. For what it's worth, all 1,200 rounds were high velocity CCI 22 Shorts.

until i too got a keltec p32 my naa bugout1 22lr was my everywhere deep ccw. the bugout1 comes with decent hogue rubber grips that i replaced with better-yet cv revision grips. i have put 500ish rounds through my naa. at legitimate, last-ditch, self-defense, distances it will do its job to allow me to “get off the x.” naa is an excellent maker with superb customer service and a nice website forum too.

I bought one a few years back. Shot it shortly after that, and it performed pretty much as expected. Nothing spectacular, but didn't disappoint.

Bought a WMR framed "Sheriff" model later, mostly because I liked the name, but haven't tried it out. That one has since been dressed with some really handsome genuine elk-stag birdshead stocks, which I'm sure will make it harder to shoot than the bigger boots that it came with.

Earlier this year, I took the first one, which had since received a set of the bigger engraved boot grips, out back of my cousin's place in Tennessee while visiting, and shot it some more. All the ammo we had available for it were Shorts, but I still enjoyed it enough to develop some new respect for what the gun can do. I carry it sometimes in my jeans watch pocket, turned butt-to-left (I'm left-handed) and hidden behind a cellphone holster.

I bought a third NAA earlier this month in .22 Short, just to have more than for any other reason. Also found 190 rounds of CCI Shorts in my ammo stash, dating back to the early 1990s (used to shoot them from a .22LR revolver in the backyard of a more-isolated place I had at the time) and am looking forward to trying out this latest one.

So, be careful. They multiply.

I was always curious about them and had a chance at a used one for $165 cash.

It's really cool and fun, but I can't hit anything with it (XXL hands).

I have the Black Widow model 22 & 22mag, it's fun to shoot and suprisingly accurate. It gets carried some on really hot days when wearing very light clothes.

I carry a 22mag one as a deep concealment piece. By far not my first choice for a primary weapon. But it marginally beats a stapler.

Tallball said:

I was always curious about them and had a chance at a used one for $165 cash.

It's really cool and fun, but I can't hit anything with it (XXL hands).

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put a set of the fold out grips on it.

Tallball said:

I was always curious about them and had a chance at a used one for $165 cash.

It's really cool and fun, but I can't hit anything with it (XXL hands).

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I wear XXL gloves too. Not too chunky but long fingers. I can barely hold onto my 22lr mini revolver. The folding grips do give me a much better hold and better accuracy but the extra step of unfolding my gun before shooting it didn't work for me. I bought one of the big bulbus Black Widow rubber slip on grips and my 22lr is now very shootable in my long hands. I carry my 22mag but never carry my 22lr revolver.

The minis are fun to own, I don't use them much but I've been wanting a shorty model just because. Here's a couple of mine.

If I bring it to the range, everyone I'm with definitely wants to shoot it.

People with smaller hands can get some reasonable accuracy with it.

It's just too small for me to hold or manipulate well. It's fun for a range toy and challenging plinking, though.

The grip I find that works the best with them, which most probably wouldn't consider a "grip", is a "one (middle) finger" grip. There really is no other way to hold them and still be able to work them.

The middle finger holds the gun tight to the palm, and you basically make a fist, with the thumb and trigger finger loose. The ring and little finger just wrap in under and against sthe gun and into the palm.

The Houge rubber grip seems to have taken that into account and makes that work perfectly. They have a little girth to them that helps lock the grip into your palm (not the web) of your hand, although there is some input there.

The rubber also helps stop any movement or squirming around that the grips of other materials almost seem to encourage.

Depending on who makes them, I wear an XL/XXL work glove, and I have no trouble shooting them as I described above.

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And I let a couple of them pass me by at the LGS.

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You too huh?
Back when I bought my .45 acp Shield and Ruger LCP. they had a used NAA on the shelf. The store wouldn't take plastic for it - something about it being sold on consignment (?)- I don't recall exactly.
I intended to go back with cash but never got around to it.

Lots of other times I saw them on the shelf and just wanted something else more than I wanted an NAA.

Hal said:

You too huh?
Back when I bought my .45 acp Shield and Ruger LCP. they had a used NAA on the shelf. The store wouldn't take plastic for it - something about it being sold on consignment (?)- I don't recall exactly.
I intended to go back with cash but never got around to it.

Lots of other times I saw them on the shelf and just wanted something else more than I wanted an NAA.

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Yeah, and I don't need one now, but it would be a lot of fun to have the magnum. A blast so to speak. I wish they made them in a larger caliber, 32 S&W maybe.

There is a NAA 32 prototype in 32 HR mag, IIRC or maybe 32 SW Long. It was an ugly gun and not succesful, so NAA didn't put it into production. You probably can find it on the NAA forums.

Had one briefly. A fun novelty, and I liked the idea of being armed all the time. But it was so hard to hit anything with accurately, I ultimately decided it was more of a liability than an asset.

Incredibly cool and well made little guns, in any event. Just couldn’t see keeping it around. Not for me.

GEM said:

There is a NAA 32 prototype in 32 HR mag, IIRC or maybe 32 SW Long. It was an ugly gun and not succesful, so NAA didn't put it into production. You probably can find it on the NAA forums.

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My guess is it was 32 long. I can’t see wanting a mag in that small a package. I remember seeing ads in gun rags back then.

Blkhrt13 said:

My guess is it was 32 long. I can’t see wanting a mag in that small a package. I remember seeing ads in gun rags back then.

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32 long loaded with BB wadcutters would be da bomb.

Monster Zero said:

32 long loaded with BB wadcutters would be da bomb.

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32 Long is one of the things I will eventually reload for

.455_Hunter said:

The NAA Mini is carried fully loaded with the hammer fully down on a safety notch between the chambers like a Remington 1858 New Army pattern.

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My dad carried one and it wandered off the safety notch and the hammer was resting on a live round. Something to consider.

SteadyD said:

My dad carried one and it wandered off the safety notch and the hammer was resting on a live round. Something to consider.

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I am sure it's possible, but fortunately only step one or two in a multi step process that could lead to an AD/ND. Far different than the single step event to an AD/ND with a standard striker gun.

SteadyD said:

My dad carried one and it wandered off the safety notch and the hammer was resting on a live round. Something to consider.

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It is, especially if youre not using a holster. Is it really a problem? I guess it could be if it were dropped, or something hit the hammer hard enough to pop a primer. Not sure how it relates to a striker-fired gun though. I carry both, and have never had an issue with either.

Ive carried one of mine now for a couple of years, in a holster that keeps the gun vertical, in a fixed place, and protects the hammer to a degree. I can still cock it in the holster though, if I pull on the hammer. Im pretty active and do all sorts of physical stuff during an average day, and have yet to find the hammer out of the safety notch. The only issue Ive had, has been the hammer poking through the back side of the pocket when I sat down on a couple of pairs of pants now.

I think, like anything else, if you use a little common sense, and follow sensible safety practices, they are as safe as anything else to carry.

This is the holster Ive been using. I think its a Desantis. Carries the gun well, doesn't move around much, and has a pocket for extra ammo. It came with a loop that you could put over the hammer, but it was cumbersome and difficult to get off.

It slips right in behind my wallet in my back pocket.