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A K Church — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:50:35 +0000

The gutter grade Davis derringers are also made by a relative of the founder, and AMT supposedly had some connection to it.

AMT didn't make "Saturday Night Specials", but their pistols were mostly not very good. Great ideas badly executed sometimes...the KelTec of their day.

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Paul — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:35:49 +0000

to pull up the obscure and nail it square on the head. Thanks! That was bugging me with a "Why can't I recall that?" Jimenez... of course.

That's it... Thanks! (reply)

Hobie — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:31:22 +0000

Lori and Cindy? ntxt (reply)

anachronism — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:40:51 +0000

Slow, as usual. Transitioned to other projects while I (reply)

JohnKDM — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:28:44 +0000

cipher on the what to do about the brazing. The first one is functional.

Christopher Walken (reply)

A K Church — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:39:47 +0000

kept a .25 in his refrigerator butter dish. Movie: "Dogs Of War".

In my early 20s, I thought that was so cool as to make me get a .25. And keep it in the butter dish. Mine wasn't cheap at all, it was a very well made 1920s era Mann. So tiny even as a .25, it required a delayed blowback, and did the annular chamber rings for that. It came with 2 boxes of Gevelot ammo, Berdan primed, hot, and marked "Produit du France". They worked well together. It also had a near 90 degree grip angle.

Friend of mine carries a Czech DAO .25 as his second backup.

Isn't there a Spanish name of some sort in that (reply)

A K Church — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:30:07 +0000

Jimenez

The only local lawsuit I know of regarding a defective (reply)

Slow Hand — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:18:09 +0000

Speaking of wear, I remember hearing of a guy who bought the cheap little 22’s by the ‘case’. He’d take them out to his property and shooot them until they stopped working for whatever reason and just pitch it into the woods and grab another one. I think at the t8me they were around $69. I’m pretty sure he got a discount on the larger numbers.

Odd? Not many uncommon ones, unless we can go back a ways. (reply)

Slow Hand — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:15:47 +0000

I was wondering how progress was going on that pair. They are very neat! Looking forward to you gettting them shooting, so e can hear your thoughts on them.

The only local lawsuit I know of regarding a defective (reply)

Hobie — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:13:44 +0000

firearm was a Raven which was dropped after several trips to various gunsmiths for repair of the trigger/sear due to wear from lots of shooting by the owner.

Isn't there a Spanish name of some sort in that (reply)

Hobie — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:10:30 +0000

list of brands? My memory, what a pain, and we see them all the time.

I've seen them before but I still think they are pretty cool (reply)

Hoot — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:38:11 +0000

Now, get 'em up and firing.

Now those are pretty cool, John! (nt) (reply)

JimT — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:15:11 +0000

Odd? Not many uncommon ones, unless we can go back a ways. (reply)

JohnKDM — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:29:20 +0000

I do have a set of British Transitional revolvers. These were an intermediate step between pepperboxes and Colt style revolvers. Some writing indicates the Brits wanted to make revolvers like Colt's, but were prevented by patents. So they did the next best thing; they used the back end of a pepperbox, converting the barrel cluster to a cylinder, added a cylinder axis pin, a rifled barrel, and a barrel wedge. Mostly all DA only, the trigger pull advanced the cylinder, cocked the bar hammer, and pushed a pin forward to lock the cylinder in place as the hammer fell.

They were also smuggled into the South during the Civil War; there is an excellent nearly-new example in the NRA museum that was confiscated from a Blockade Runner.

On both of these, the bar hammer was cracked, likely from dry firing. Internals were not working and appear to have been 'gunsmithed' by someone without a clue. I have TIG welded one hammer but I am still studying the second one as someone - likely the aforementioned 'someone without a clue' - attempted to braze it. That will have to be removed before welding or a new hammer made. Caliber is about .440" with deep rifling in good shape.

Any further interest, I can post more pics.

Odd Handguns I Have Owned Over The Years (reply)

pokynojoe — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:18:50 +0000

I had the Beretta with the tip up barrel, I don't remember what happened to it, think I gave it to a family member.

Curiously I also have a Lorcin that I bought, oh...some thirty/forty years ago that's still in the little plastic wrapper and still in the box. I never took it out or shot it. I don't remember why I even bought it, what's puzzling is why I've hung onto it for all these years.

Jared's is an FIE Titan. (reply)

Hoot — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:58:59 +0000

But I expect there's little real difference. My first experience with the littlest ACP was also an Excam GT-25. Bought it for something like $60 (hey, it had the box), played with it for a while and traded it off for something unremembered.

I still have a Taurus PT25 tip-up that was Miss Beth's. It's really a decent shooter and great fun with some #3 shot and a shotgun primer. Strangely, the first mold I ever bought was for the .25 along with about 100 bullets cast from it. The seller told me he wanted to be rid of "that finger-pinchin' ess-o-bee".

Odd Handguns I Have Owned Over The Years (reply)

Slow Hand — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:50:22 +0000

I w owned sone odd and cheap ones before but the one that sticks in my moms was the cheapest gun I had ever bought. It was an Excam GT-25. About like the astra you posted above, a little single action .25 acp. I paid $27.50 for it and a box of fmj. I found some odd Winchester ammo that was basically a plated lead hollow point but had a bb pressed into the cavity. I guess the idea was it would still feed in cheap little guns and the bb would push itself into the HP to open it up some. It was amazingly accurate and reliable but I still had zero faith in the caliber. Somewhere I read about a ‘face shooter’ and I figure that’s about what this was. I think Jared has a similar model he picked up recently.

A friend of mine had a Raven .25 in his closet ... (reply)

JimT — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:41:50 +0000

one day he opened the closet door and the Raven fell out, hit the floor and went off. Shot him through the calf of his right leg. He went to the doctors office in the small town and said that cleaning the wound hurt worse than the gun shot. He sold the Raven and bought a .38 special S&W. He said that if that was all the .25 would do he did not trust it.

Can you name all the brand names? I'll start, Lorcin... (reply)

Slow Hand — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:44:58 +0000

Bryco and Jennings are two others I remember…

If I’m not mistaken, they are still…. (reply)

Otony — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:23:41 +0000

….producing firearms under one name or another

Otony