Tanfoglio 25acp

[Tallball]

Sorry so slow to post a picture. Here is the Tanfoglio 25acp I mentioned in another thread. I got it about a week ago, but I won't get a chance to shoot it for a while. I bought it just for grins. I didn't have a pistol in 25acp. I like Tanfoglio. I heard that the ones made in Italy tend to function okay. And it was cheap.

The slide is steel, but the frame is pot metal of some kind. I had thought maybe the Italian ones had steel frames, but apparently I was wrong. I don't know a whole lot about them.

This one was imported by Excam, and if I am reading correctly was Model GT-27. Most were imported by FIE and called "Titan". IIRC, they couldn't be imported after the 1968 law, and were assembled in Florida of Italian parts after that. Some people say the Italian ones are pretty okay for a small cheap 25acp pistol. I have also read that the ones assembled in Florida tend to have more problems.

If anyone could further educate me about these pistols, or pass on your experiences, I would be grateful.

 

[bumbazine]

I have one marked 'FIE Titan' and 'Made in Italy'. I paid $75.00 for it a few years ago out of curiosity. It's chromed and some of the chrome is flaking off in one spot. I've put a couple hundred rounds through it with no malfunctions whatsoever, but it's horribly inaccurate and appears to keyhole. I would have sold it by now except that my state requires private sales to go through an FFL with their attendant fees and it's just not worth that much. It's kind of fun to shoot, but the ammo is expensive for what it is, and I have an old Colt vest pocket .25 that's more fun when it comes to that. I don't know what to do with it.

 

[MedWheeler]

I'd been wanting one for a bit, too, but people were ridiculous with their valuations on what they had around here. I was intrigued by the caliber as well, as impractical as it is.

I did end up with three guns in the caliber, though two of them are the same, being Taurus PT25 pistols (one of them is in stainless.) The third is a Bauer.

 

[dagger dog]

I bought one many moons ago an Excam, the little gun was dead reliable, it would pop 'em off as fast as you could pull the trigger, I paid$ 47.50 and traded it off for a tool box, it was a definite belly gun.

Something about those mouse guns, had a Iver Johnson knock off 22 rimfire Walther, had to get a gunsmith to make it pop every time.

Would love to find a Baby Browning or Colt at a sane price.

 

[kBob]

Tallball,

Thanks for posting. Wow you got the three color model Chrome, "blue", and "Ivory". Years ago I was looking at one over a gun counter and the clerk asked me if I was "looking for a throw down." As some of you youngsters may not know what that meant, a Throw Down was a cheap gun a less than jake police officer could "throw down" at a shooting scene before back up arrived and then sloppily pick up and contaminate in front of witnesses to make a questionable shooting less questionable. Nasty suggestion that. Would like to think it never happened but the stories were out there.

I seem to recall that Excam or FIE had a model with fine hardwood grips with an inset closine' rose and gold highlighted engraving on the metal around 1980 or so.

I still think a working .25, even a zinc frame one, is better than no gun. As a lot of guys and gals my age are no longer needing firearms I figure a lot of these guns are going to start showing up in pawn shops and gun stores as kids and grand kids try to get a few bucks for them or get rid of an embarrassing "evil gun".

-kBob

 

[sean m]

Watched a Youtube video not long ago on these. Sootch has a series on mouse guns a with a pretty good commentary.