Found a Bauer several years ago and thought it was well made. Didn't cost what a Baby Browning does, and it is all stainless.

As I was buying stuff from my favorite toy store, he showed me a Galesi. Said he couldn't find a magazine for it, and if I wanted it, it was mine.

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.25 ACP anyone --- I think this caliber is going away...

Although comparatively expensive, I almost never fail to see it on the shelf in the places I frequent for ammo.

I bought a nickel beretta 950bs from a member here after a thread on them. Beautiful little gun.

Have a pair of beretta 950s sequential numbers. Great guns. Carried one in my pocket for almost 5 years.

They are fun to shoot. Never shot anything but fmj out of mine.

Here's a Mauser WTP Series II

I have two .25 pistols, my fathers and his fathers. $5.70 a box in the 70's.

Can it still kill you? Plenty of weapons to shoot it from? People still making ammmo for it?

Yes, yes, and yes.

Come back in 100 years and there will still be people using it.

Dang, ya'll got me pondering now...

I have a Frommer Lillput:



Haven't shot it yet(Field stripped it after purchase & extractor came out in 2 pieces). Finally found a replacement after 3 years of searching (in Poland of all places), as soon as it's put back together I'll shoot it.

I've been a fan of the little Beretta for years.
My first was a 950 SAO in .22short. That was a DEEP pocket carry rascal.

A couple of 21a in .22LR came later and just a couple of days ago I put on lay away a SAO 950bs in .25acp. (1990 build)

The 21a feeding on CCI STINGER was impressive and accurate. However chamber cleaning was necessary after 40-50 rounds.

I read somewhere: "A mouse gun in your pocket is better than a .45 left at home".

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.25ACP is going to be around a long time.
I've had the 950 Beretta and the Baby Browning I liked them both. The nod goes to the 950. But the Baby Browning had the ahh factor. The 950 is purpose built and always worked. I had a Seecamp 25 I liked it better than my 32acp seecamp.
Still the 950 would be the one I'd carry if...

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I have a 950BS from about the same era as para's

Had a Bauer back in the 70's. It was well made, reliable and fun to shoot. Used it as a BUG for my GM 1911. Only issue I had was what condition to carry it in. Didn't like empty chamber and never really trusted the little safety.

Replaced it with a Seecamp .25, primarily for the DA trigger. Solved the problem.

It's amazing what these little guns will do in the right hands. In the mid 90's I was shooting a LOT. For fun, I'd use the Seecamp for man-on-man poppers (7 yards) with my defensive shooting group compadres. Nearly everybody was using 1911's back then. Pissed off a number of guys when I'd beat them using the Seecamp against their 1911's. Aim high on the popper and concentrate on fundamentals.

I still have it, but it has been replaced with a Seecamp 32. I've always used the little guns for BUG purposes, not primary carry.

As an aside, I had one of the Beretta tip up barrel .22 LR's. It was a fun, very accurate range gun. As you have probably read, the .22 LR tends not to be as reliable as the .25 in tiny guns. Eventually sold it.

Granted the .25 has no real "stopping power". However, nobody likes picking a half-dozen .25's out of their face.

Nah... My Beretta Jetfire has saved my pelt twice over the years. Best gun to carry when you are not carrying a gun... VI

A 1908 vest pocket has always been on my short list. They are impossible to find here behind the iron curtain though.

had a Beretta 950 BS,
lovely little gun, easy to hide in a pocket and shot well,

sold it off when I bought my Seecamp 32


I also have a Bauer 25 that my Dad had given my Mom years ago,

and a couple of the Astra Colt Jr's

those guns were made for a purpose, and will kill you dead in a jiffy

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Originally posted by dog44:
I have a Beretta 950. Nice little pocket pistol.

My wife's 950 is in 22short, but I had one briefly in 25. it was a fun little gun.

The local walmart still sells 25acp, so it cant be THAT hard to get.

As the story was told. It was winter night as a young man was walking when a threat came out of the shadows with a knife ready to do harm. The young man pulled out his 25ACP and fired, the threat screamed, fell, dropped the knife, got up and ran away. While the threat was stopped, the young man never carried a 25 ACP again. Nothing less then 9mm since that time. As the story was told. Chris

I know from personal experience the .25ACP is capable of one-shot stops. Might not be my first choice, but it's better than nothing.

As far as defense goes, I was under the impression the .25 was more for stopping dogs while out on your bicycle ride. Presumably an early 20th century problem.