In the market for a .25acp. Suggestions?

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While it may not be an ultimate truth, I'm sure that being shot with a .25 often HAS had those results, too. Which makes the comment also humorous.
 
The absolutely best made and most reliable .25 Auto was the Colt Vest Pocket; there are other good ones, but the Colt is the best.

As to the alleged Jeff Cooper comments, I have heard many versions of that, and IMHO anyone who really believes it is an idiot. ALL guns are dangerous and the .25 ACP will put a bullet into the heart or the brain just as surely as a .44 Magnum or a .454 Casull. And the recipient will be just as dead as if he were shot with a Bren 10.

Jim
 
Ah, if only guns put the bullet in the brain or the heart all the time! I love the .25, and it MIGHT kill if need be. But it just might aggravate an assailant more than he was if it DOESN'T hit the heart or brain. That was Cooper's point. Bigger guns anchor a person more when the two major areas are not given over to "incapacitation", and the bullet goes to a less lethal area of the body.
 
SharpsDressedMan said:
Ah, if only guns put the bullet in the brain or the heart all the time! I love the .25, and it MIGHT kill if need be. But it just might aggravate an assailant more than he was if it DOESN'T hit the heart or brain. That was Cooper's point. Bigger guns anchor a person more when the two major areas are not given over to "incapacitation", and the bullet goes to a less lethal area of the body.
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So might a bigger gun.
 
I wish I had met Cooper; I would have asked him to let me shoot him with a .25 ACP and see if he noticed it. I still say that people who believe they can be shot with any gun and not be hurt are drunks or fools.

Jim
 
These are all cool guns posted here, especially these two.

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What happened to the top of the mag? It looks like it was dipped in some sort of tarnish remover.

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"it still puzzles me how a man so intelligent could say something so stupid."

The same way that otherwise intelligent people can keep on repeating the same stupid saying like a parrot. Independent thinking seems to be going the way of the dodo bird. It's easier to listen to guru's who just may be wrong.
 
What happened to the top of the mag? It looks like it was dipped in some sort of tarnish remover.
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Cyanide bath heat treat to restore tempering removed by bluing process. Common to see on early Colt magazines.
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And it's how you can tell the original mags from the aftermarkets, meaning it represents a price bump of 100% to 300%, depending on condition.
 
+1 on the Beretta.
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Yes, if you plan to shoot it much. I have a Beretta Jetfire and a PSA Baby Browning. They're both excellent little handguns IMO, but the Beretta is more shootable for me because I can get two fingers on the grip. The Baby is strictly a one-finger handgun: I can get my middle finger around the grip, and that's it. The size does make it more pocket-carryable, though.
 
Haven't heard it mentioned yet but I'm very happy with my Astra firecat, it was based off The colt but Is slightly different, 7 yards bullseye, I'm sold
 
"I wish I had met Cooper; I would have asked him to let me shoot him with a .25 ACP and see if he noticed it."
AS he pull's his 45 and says "you can try"

As to the OP the Colt 1908 and Baby Brownings are classic and timeless, but for a shooter I wouldn't rule out the Beretta Bobcat I have one in 22 and it's a fun little gun.
 
I've handled one shooting in my career which involved a .25. Hubby and wifey had been wrestling over the pistol, which discharged and shot hubby in the shoulder.
When we arrived, he was holding a handkerchief to the wound (which had ceased bleeding) and was on the phone to his lawyer.
He was holding the phone with the "shot" arm and was not noticeably distressed....

Then there's the oft-reported case where a woman in Chicago walked into a district police station and demanded her husband be arrested. "Why?" the desk sergeant inquired. "Because he shot me!" she replied, and promptly collapsed on the floor.
She'd been shot 7 times with a .25 auto, and had walked several blocks to the police station subsequently.
Much like the .22 rimfire (which some hold superior...) these rounds are killers, but not not much in the way of "stoppers".
 
As an LEO for 32 years I saw quite a few people shot quite dead with a 25. Seen one though that caught 3 25 rounds in his forehead that skipped off...of course I have seen that happen with 45 ball once too...and a guy who ran about 100 yards with an entire load of 00 Buck square in his chest...you just never know

All in all, seen 25 do a number more often than not. While I like Jeff Cooper he apparently never got shot with a 25. I like my Colt Vest Pocket...but I DO NOT carry it as prime CCW mind you.
 
I saw a Colt Vest Pocket .25 auto at the gunstore just yesterday, $500 something bucks, really wish I had that much cash lying around... It would give me something to do with the box of .25 auto I've had on my shelf for months. But then again, if I DID have that much cash I would have bought the Colt Combat Commander right next to it instead.

Too many Colts... Not enough money...
 
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