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Is this .25 ACP Mouse Gun enough for Personal Defense?
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 12/8/2017 | J Hines

Posted on 12/08/2017 5:41:10 AM PST by w1n1

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To: Texas resident

“Placement of the round you bet.”

In the eye...works everytime.


61 posted on 12/08/2017 8:31:13 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: mountainlion

A few years back my wife, my 3 small daughters, and I were spending time in and around the Chequamegon National Forest. The blackberry season is quite late there and we had stopped to grab a bunch to bring back to the cabin. As we pulled away I noticed that a 6th from the forest had joined our party and it never said a thing. I had felt kind of silly bringing my .45 on that trip and, even though I didnt have to use it, was glad I had had enough sense to bring it along.


62 posted on 12/08/2017 8:36:22 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: MileHi

Tried by 12 or carried by six is the choice.


63 posted on 12/08/2017 8:40:25 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: OldSmaj
I have a very nice 9 mm M & P Shield with night sights. I carry it in a great Alien Gear IWB holster. But Phoenix is hot. Very hot. There are days where I like light clothes but still want a CCW.

Enter the NAA .22 WMR Sidewinder in a small pocket holster sheath. I have carried it in running shorts and light weight dress shorts to church. Invisible.


64 posted on 12/08/2017 8:43:44 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

I will have to say that even on a laptop that displays larger than life size.


65 posted on 12/08/2017 8:44:52 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Stevenc131

Not sure I see much value in a gun smaller than an LCP. It reaches a point where it is darn hard to get hold of and use.


66 posted on 12/08/2017 8:46:24 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: mountainlion
I never had to defend myself from a mouse.

My cats are good outdoor mousers but most of the time they bring the trophies in and drop them, usually alive.

The little vermin get behind desks, under computer cords, in corners where the house was added onto...

I went and bought a Daisy pellet gun. The cats stand back like safari gun-bearers. I'm like a kid again.

67 posted on 12/08/2017 8:49:40 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: DCBryan1

Indeed a great executioners pistol if the victim is restrained

For more practical use if do for 32 mag minimum

But if you truly want small caliber but serious

This is the bomb.....but it ain’t cheep

FN 57

Low bullet weight extremely lethal

About a quarter less powder than a 9mm

30-40 her projectile

19 ounce unloaded

Add a quarter pound when loaded


68 posted on 12/08/2017 8:50:14 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: w1n1

My mom had a baby Browning

My dad almost shot me cleaning it

We have s beretta top load 25 too


69 posted on 12/08/2017 8:51:05 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: Fightin Whitey

I talked to a competitive shooter that said he took 22 short rounds and cut the bullet off at the end of the brass. He said if he missed a mouse he sometimes left a little dent in the baseboard.


70 posted on 12/08/2017 9:03:09 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: momtothree

Good, brutal series. I liked it.


71 posted on 12/08/2017 9:11:29 AM PST by Belakflognirb
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To: submarinerswife

GODLESS.....Not a chick flick. Highly implausible massacres, but entertaining premise and Jeff Daniels is phenomenal in his part.


72 posted on 12/08/2017 9:13:45 AM PST by Belakflognirb
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To: submarinerswife

GODLESS.....Not a chick flick. Highly implausible massacres, but entertaining premise and Jeff Daniels is phenomenal in his part.


73 posted on 12/08/2017 9:17:49 AM PST by Belakflognirb
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To: treetopsandroofs
What’s up with the latter? Have not seen a new one on sale in at least three years.

The local guys at the shop told me more than a year ago, “They make them in batches,” and dutifully took my name ans phone number, but there’s still nothing out there.

Gunbroker.com. They have lots of them for sale and at good prices.

74 posted on 12/08/2017 9:22:02 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: mountainlion

Pellet gun same thing.

One pump, they want to twitch a while.

Two pumps, get the 409 for the baseboard.


75 posted on 12/08/2017 9:29:59 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: JimRed
Drill out a tiny cavity in the tip of the projectile (think hollow point). Insert a drop of fast-acting deadly poison. Seal with a drop of wax. Size no longer matters; any hit is a kill.

This is guaranteed to create a legal problem for you. I don't care WHAT state you're in. Plus I can just imagine what the media reaction would be to your using poison bullets.

Much better idea would be to just use a modern sub-compact in 9mm or .45, and forget .25, .32, or .380 in 2017.

76 posted on 12/08/2017 9:31:27 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: w1n1

Have one of those Baby Brownings, but would not bother carrying it.


77 posted on 12/08/2017 9:32:59 AM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: DCBryan1

They Were Efficient!


78 posted on 12/08/2017 9:34:26 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: OldMissileer

Thank you, but there still does not seem to be a new, freshly made Judge there, nor does there appear to have been any manufactured in quite some time.


79 posted on 12/08/2017 9:54:51 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: AppyPappy
There was a mob hit on a mob member. Big guy, and multiple (3 or 5) .25 cal rounds were fired point blank into the back of his head. He survived, and was still functional (after he work up, and the headache stopped).

Maybe the extra mm's of flesh, or perhaps a literally thick skull, dissipated the energy.

80 posted on 12/08/2017 11:23:05 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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