I love the .25 ACP!

[dogngun]

I have had a lot of small pistols in both .22 and .25 calibers,

and in over 45 years of shooting them, I found exactly 1 .22 pistol reliable enough to carry-a S&W 2213, no longer made. I have a 90 year old Spanish
.25 pistol that goes with me much of the time, and I have NEVER had a feed or exrtaction problem with it.
A small pistol that works is much better than one that does not.

mark

 

[Onmilo]

Or; six hits with a .25 count more than one miss with a .44!

 

[DM~]

Back when i had my gunshop, i had two cop friends who loved the 25 auto too! Why? Because both of them had been shop by 25auto's, and neither had been hurt! Didn't even draw blood, and this was before all the cops wore "vest"

One was on a foot chase with a bad guy and caught up to him, tackleing the punk! When he got up, his partner said, "man you been shot!" My friend looked down and saw a hole in his jacket, so he opened it and found a bullet in his notebook!

He didn't even see a gun or hear it go off!

Second friend was shot in the chest and something stopped that bullet too, but i forget what it was?? I THINK it bounced off his badge???

Personally, i'd step up a knotch or two...

DM

 

[Ronsch]

Not to get too far off topic...

If you are going to continue to use the .25 ACP round, then you may want to upgrade to a firearm by one of the more reliable companies.

Just saying, the Jimenez firearms are not known for being the best quality, and the last thing you need is for the firearm to jam due to low quality.

 

[huduguru]

Empty the mag, break the knee then slice 'em up....

 

[Weevil]

Not to get too far off topic...

If you are going to continue to use the .25 ACP round, then you may want to upgrade to a firearm by one of the more reliable companies.

Just saying, the Jimenez firearms are not known for being the best quality, and the last thing you need is for the firearm to jam due to low quality.

Well yeah but that goes for any caliber not just .25acp.

 

[bikridr]

The show Handguns on the sportsman's channel did a piece about the tiny .25 auto and questioned if it was effective.They placed a leather wallet stuffed with credit cards into the inside pocket of a coat and fired into it.Result was the tiny ineffective .25 went through the coat,the wallet,and out the back of the coat.I wouldn't continue an attack if you were firing one at me and I don't care what anyone's friend,cousin, or friend of a friend says.

 

[makarovnik]

Empty the mag, break the knee then slice 'em up....

Ha! Sounds like something I would say.

The .25acp has pretty darn good penetration. My brother shot my Raven at a 2"+ thick wet phone book and the bullet went clean through.

 

[oldfool]

well I hate knocking small calibers
but even I have my limits
25 acp is just not in the game, never was

and I actually own one, a Beretta 25acp
own a 22LR Hi-std DA derringer too
I shoot 'em both maybe once a year, but don't carry 'em, no

 

[Onmilo]

I used to own A Beretta Minx in .22 Short and a Beretta 950 in .25 acp.
I don't own a .25 acp now but I do own a Kel-Tec P32 belly gun and casrry it on my property quite frequently.
Except for the occasional meth heads we don't get a lot of criminal activity out here but we do get a lot of Raccoons, Skunks, Snakes, barn pigeons, coyote, fox, feral dogs, feral cats and all seem intent on eating the chickens or their eggs, well except the pigeons which just get up in the rafters and crap all over everything.

.22 Short, .25 acp, .32 acp do admirable work in dealing with these forms of hostiles.

I really miss my Beretta Minx and wish I had it back,,,,

 

[pockets]

So if we "move up a notch" from .25acp, we go to .32acp...right?
Now we can talk about the girl in Dayton Ohio last year, negligently shot by her boyfriend with a .32acp, her Blackberry stopped the bullet.
As Gilda Radner said, "It's Always Something".

 

[vidi0t]

Ya know I feel the need to point out a belief I have. We've all heard stories of someone being killed by a 22lr and then you hear stories like the Blackberry stopping a .32 ACP. I think God's will always factors into these equations. So sometimes a .22lr will protect someone while other times someone might take multiple rounds of .40S&W and survive. Some things just can't always be quantified. And ya know, I'm okay with this.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Knock at the door, man goes to open door. "Bang!" A .45 round cuts through his shoulder, below the clavical, no bones struck. "Damn, why'd you shoot me, Joe?!!" No further shots. Police called, EMS takes injured to the hospital, Joe goes to jail. Drunkeness blamed for the shooting. The man shot never fell down, never lost consciousness, and didn't really feel too much in the way of pain (until later at the hospital). Bullet placement IS a big factor, I guess. Even a .45 doesn't always do what we expect it to do.

 

[Onmilo]

Man, we could also start talking about ALL the .38 Special failures that prompted the shift away from revolvers and towards semi auto pistols, specifically .40 caliber semi auto pistols which then led to a further awakening of the .45 acp market especially when high capacity magazines were banned from civilian ownership but then reinstated causing an upsurge in high capacity .45 pistols on the market which then caused an uproar with the general population that common folks were carrying bigger guns with lots of bullets so then the trend was towards REALLY BIG revolvers like the .500 and .460 S&Ws and now it has all come down to this,,,,,

The most influential, politically correct, awe inspiring handgun marketed by any manufacturer yet to date.

The head shrinks may be on to something about the size of ones penis and the deep human fear of the things that go bump in the night,,,