Robbins290
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that would be cool Apache. I have had there HP22a for about 15 years now. Thing is super reliable. I would assume the 25 ACP would be the same way.
I have one of those too in perfect shape and an extra magazine. It is the only .25 ACP I have left. Back on the day I may have seen and tried out a Beretta 950 in ..25 with a very small screw on suppressor that was very kewlI acquired one of these La Francais in 25acp. a couple years ago. Mine has some wear but is the engraved model and has a 3.5" barrel that tips up like the Berettas. It has a rather stout double action only trigger but is accurate and functions very well. Truly a fun range toy !
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I was thinking it'd be kinda cool if Phoenix Arms did a *Range Kit* for their .25 as well as their .22.
Todd.
Phoenix arms makes a 25 ACP. its less in 150 and is pretty accurate. does that define plinker?
This Mauser Model 1910 has the longest barrel and largest sights of any 25acp pistol I've shot.
It would be cool to have something like a Single Six or bolt action rifle in 25acp so that you could reload your plinking or small game ammo.
Micheal Tinker Pearce was/is working on a revolver .25 Mag round.How about a 25 Magnum? Like a Glock 17. Maybe a 20 round magazine?
A "few" years back [ ok,a few decades back ] a fellow LEO and I took our Beretta .25's to the range.Why? Because there are tons of it on the shelves of the local stores.
A Buckmark sized 25acp would be sort of interesting. Not really an upgrade at all from a 22lr.....but apparently you can find ammo
I have a Colt 1908 25Auto Vest Pocket Pistol that I picked up a few years ago
It's a tiny but mighty little pistol.
You may be on to something. Now that Ruger successfully made a cheaper FN FiveSeveN, I would not put it past them to make a cheaper Walther GSP. Yes, perhaps using Mark IV as a template. Or, I dunno, 10/22 with a pistol grip.I have been saying for over a year now how much I wish Ruger would make a Mark IV in .32 ACP.
In a single action revolver no rim is really needed. If I recalled there were .45 ACP cylinders for the rugers at one time.I have said the same thing before and others stated no one would want one. I would. I would like to see a 25acp fired from a longer barrel. Or maybe even better a Ruger single six in 25acp since its a semi rimmed round. It will never happen of course. There was a guy over on the firing line forum that did build one. Michael Tinker Pearce said he is a friend of his.
But someone else said he wished there were more 32 long revolvers made. I doubt there will ever be any new ones made but there are plenty of older ones still for sale. I have 3 of the S&W long versions and love shooting them. To me they are the very best alternative to the 22lr round. Except its like the 32 mag. Its best as a reloaders round.
But none of this helps anyone looking for ammo. I am sort of surprise people don't have enough ammo. I thought after Sandy Hook most would have learned their lesson and been well stocked. I learned my lesson in 1996 with the primer scare. I have never been short of anything since then.
My future .32 will be my nagant 95 revolver. I have a .32 ACP cylinder somewhere that I need to fit to it. .32 long cases will fire in it, but they bulge a lot. Likely I could wrap with paper and that would stop the swelling of the .32 long cases. If you cast and used scrounged lead for your reloads, my guess is the primer is your biggest cost.The 327 isn't in the same context as a plinker 25acp. Its a good round and I am all for anything that promotes 32 caliber guns. A 32 long makes a good 22/25 replacement. Easy to reload and can be a very gentle round or turned up well past factory loads if you have a modern gun. Thankfully they were popular at one time and S&W made many swing out cylinder models 30 and 31. Enough that anyone who wants one should be able to get one.
But my favorite 32 guns are the two single sixes I have with adjustable sights and 5.5" barrels in 32 mag. They shoot 32 longs well enough to squirrel hunt with and when loaded with 32 mag they give me all the power I want in a 32 caliber gun. I cast most of the bullets I shoot and the price to shoot them only amounts to around 3 cents a shot. I think. I really don't know since I have had my supplies so long I really don't remember the cost.
And yes I knew that in a single action the rounds can headspace on the case mouth. I had a BH convertible in 357/9mm. I shot more 9s than I did 357s.
My future .32 will be my nagant 95 revolver. I have a .32 ACP cylinder somewhere that I need to fit to it. .32 long cases will fire in it, but they bulge a lot. Likely I could wrap with paper and that would stop the swelling of the .32 long cases. If you cast and used scrounged lead for your reloads, my guess is the primer is your biggest cost.
I do not know the model, but I did have a .32 S&W long that had adjustable sights (put on by local gunsmith, now dead many years) and 4 inch barrel that had been someones squirrel gun. It was badly rusted due to a little dog urinating on it when it was put under a couch. I found an old cylinder in new condition to replace the cylinder and a gunsmith reamed out the last 3/4" of the muzzle where it was rusted. With some reloads I purchased it had a little kick to it, but it was a very nice small little gun. It was on the the equivalent of a J frame, but it was an old gun made long time ago I assume.I have read about shooting 32 longs in the Nagant in the Backwoodsman magazine. I have wondered if the cylinder couldn't be sleeved and then rechambered to the 32 long? am sure it would be expensive and the money better used to find a gun made for the round you want to shoot.
It used to be 32 longs were cheap to buy. But it seems folks have figured out how cheap they are to shoot and how much fun they are and that raised the price because of the demand. I like the newer made 32 longs like the S&Ws I mentioned. Those are strong and will take loads that are too strong for the old top break guns. The Ruger single sixes are about bullet proof. I don't need a 327 but I would like to have one of the new single seven single actions with 7.5" barrel. What a great trail gun. Sorta heavy though.
I tried to get Hamilton Bowen to put adjustable sights on the 4" model 31-1 I own but he wasn't interested in doing the job. I have an article from Handgunner magazine about adding the adjustable rear sight. Thats a kitchen table job just needing files and D&T one hole. Milling a groove for a taller front sight is the big hurtle. I wash my dad still had his machine shop and I had access to his mill. This would have been done a long time ago.
...... Kind of like me except my 25 ACP safe queen is a Raven and I probably have at least 100 rounds for it . But somehow I just don't get the urge to plink with it. Put a couple magazine fulls through it a few years ago as a function test.... It works great but there's still no motivation to go plink with it... Or use it as a carry gun.I’ve had a FIE Titan Tiger in 25 Auto in my safe for the last 18 years. I think I took it out shooting once. I have about 200 rounds for it. That’s about another 40 years worth of ammo.