as a holster maker for all these little pocket pistols, I make a them every week in some form or fashion. With that said, People still carry them because they are cool, they are very small, reliable, and Fun to shoot.
I find even though it is small it is like a lead weight in the pocket. I can see it fitting relatively comfortably in a VEST pocket since that pocket is held up tight to the man's abdomen but in a pants pocket it is still too lumpy and heavy. I don't like belts so a belt holster is out of the question. I want to find a secure clip on the waistband type holster.
I`ve got one of the Astra Cub pistols in 22 Short. They are decent little pistols. The Colt Jr. will bring twice as much as the Cub, but they are identical except for the markings.
How many of the currently manufactured semi-auto pistols will be functional 100 years from now? This speaks about the durability of all steel pistols, good design and craftsmanship of 100 years ago.
I saw one like this once, but it was made på Vesta. It had been a service pistol to a father of a friend to my mother. Who went around paying loggers their salaries in the far north of Sweden back in the 1920-40s. Never seen a pistol by that name before, but I remember it was Spanish. Working as a representative for a big timber company in the north could be dangerous, since they messed with very old hunting rights that locals considered were their birth rights. And they of course carried cash and probably mail on them. But they weren't always popular people, so they got pistols.
Small pistols like these were common all over Europe in the early 20th century. Often they were out and out rip off copies of other pre existing gun designs.
Hi Mike, Precision Small Arms makes the Baby Browning .25 acp now. Expensive is the key word here, as I paid $1100 for a new stainless version. Quality is at least on par with the Belgian examples of yesteryear. I do very much like this pistol in your video, thanks for sharing.
Would not be surprised by that. Probably shot very little and probably not carried at all in the last 100 years. I think the last guy who owned it fired 6 rounds with it. Anyway it was traded in to a local gun shop along with a box of ammo that had 6 rounds missing. So i would bet the last owner fired a mag of ammo just to see if it worked. Over the last 100 years it has probably been owned by several different people, and it could be that all of them did just what the last guy did, fired it once and put it away.
The .25 ACP hits harder than your fist. As long as it does that I suppose it will always have some utility. Not that I'd want to carry it over a more effective round.
Phoenix Arms makes a .25 ACP today. I have one and it runs far better than it has any right to. However, it is also made of pot metal and mine shows some pretty significant wear even after only a couple hundred rounds. There is no way that it will be in shootable condition 100 years from now
If you want a gun to just shoot occasionally, one of the cheap pistols or revolvers will be just fine. But if you want something that will last, it`s worth the extra cost to invest in something better.
