Hipster handgun cartridges

[CountryGent]

.32 French Long.. I used to have an M35A, awesome gun, sucky cartridge, even back when you could actually buy milsurp ammo.

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Ouch. Yah, 7.65×20㎜ Longue makes other unobtanium look easy by comparison. Still, nicely built pistolas.

 

[DeanMk]

Two that I've found vaguely interesting, but would likely never invest in, is the .25 NAA and .32 NAA. Neat-o, I guess, but it just doesn't make sense. The similar 5.45×18㎜ Soviet is also, arguably, neat, but as far as I know it is unobtanium in this country.

NAA playing with the fact that they make a gun chambered for .25, .32 and .380 auto....also, their attempt to legitimize a .25 cal self-defense round.
I guess their stats are pretty impressive.




Dean

 

[CountryGent]

NAA playing with the fact that they make a gun chambered for .25, .32 and .380 auto....also, their attempt to legitimize a .25 cal self-defense round.
I guess their stats are pretty impressive.

Indeed, they look great on paper. When we were arming up with a bunch of pocket pistols (and mind you this largely, with at least a couple exceptions, predated single-stack Glocks) the NAA guns were very tempting. But we stuck with conventionally chambered little autos. Don't get me wrong, what they created is neat. Just not enough to go with an oddball cartridge.

 

[CLT65]

I know some people like to consolidate and have only a couple calibers to stock, but I'm the opposite. I enjoy variety, and reload for all kinds of odd-ball rounds. I never thought of it as hipster though. The most challenging to load for is the 7.62x38R.

If I was really hip and cool and had lots of money (none of which is true, by the way), I'd like to custom make a "pistol" 1903 Springfield, and fit a Pederson Device to it. That would a pretty cool but completely impractical and useless handgun. I have a couple of original .30 Pederson rounds in my meager collection, but otherwise have absolutely no idea where one would find ammo.

 

[DeanMk]

Indeed, they look great on paper. When we were arming up with a bunch of pocket pistols (and mind you this largely, with at least a couple exceptions, predated single-stack Glocks) the NAA guns were very tempting. But we stuck with conventionally chambered little autos. Don't get me wrong, what they created is neat. Just not enough to go with an oddball cartridge.

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Yeah, I'm with you.
It's like NAA's version of cheese ("cheese" as in, Milk's leap at immortality).
I've heard the gun itself is very legit, but I'd opt for the .32 acp over one of their own cartridges.


Dean

 

[DeanMk]

My hipster vote was going to be the .41 AE, but the OP beat me to it, so how about the .50 AE.
Does everything the .45 acp does, but the gun holds less ammo.....???

 

[spider]

It's either 25acp or the 50GI

 

[2DaMtns]

How'd the hipster burn his tongue?


He drank his coffee before it was cool.

Does the 22 Jet qualify?

 

[Captain O]

I started thinking of all the oddball cartridges I enjoy and why I enjoy them. Then I started to get butt hurt. Then realized its the same arguments used by hipsters to justify their grape-infused third nut licker imperial stout butt porter.

Now that I make that connection, only super mainstream American calibers for me!

Now THAT'S funny! (I nearly peed myself laughing at that one)!

 

[2DaMtns]

You could just shoot the 44 magnum and call it by the proper name of 43 magnum.

 

[P7M13]

.460 Rowland
Feeling Lucky, Punk?
You're looking down the barrel of the 460 Rowland, the power of Dirty Harry's 44 Magnum brought out of the stone age.
Now I can't remember, in all the excitement, did I fire 11 or 12 rounds?
Your friends are all dead, and I cannot believe you're still here, sucking breath. I musta missed, or not taken the shot.
So what's it gonna be?
You can get up, run, and takes your chances
Take a roll of the D30 die I have in my pocket from my D&D game you interrupted with all your excitement,
Or call it a day and wait for the police to arrive....
So what say you? Feeling lucky ... punk?

 

[Medic!]

Nothing Special there just another .38-55.

It's true. I can always shoot .38-55 in my rifle.
But you go touch off a .375 in your old .38-55 and let me know how that works out for you?









Please don't.

 

[elsie]

.475 Wildey Magnum.


elsie

 

[DeanMk]

Charles Bronson's best friend...so it must be good. =D

 

[Captain O]

How'd the hipster burn his tongue?


He drank his coffee before it was cool.

Does the 22 Jet qualify?

The .22 Jet should never have left the drawing board. The tapered case is known to back out from the chamber and tie-up the revolver's cylinder. S&W engineers should have predicted this and put the kybosh on the revolver's production.

 

[Captain O]

NAA playing with the fact that they make a gun chambered for .25, .32 and .380 auto....also, their attempt to legitimize a .25 cal self-defense round.
I guess their stats are pretty impressive.

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Dean

Frankly, I would like to have a full-sized Browning Black Label in .380 ACP with an additional barrel in .32 NAA. Load that puppy up with 50-grain Lehigh bullet in that case and it would be smoking out the barrel at a speed that will allow it to penetrate a good 18" of 10% ballistic gelatin. Almost no recoil, tissue disruption up the wazoo, and accurate to a fault.

I could go for that.

 

[DeanMk]

"...and accurate to a fault."

Cap,

You have experience with the .32 NAA?

 

[asbtg]

45 Colt (Long, whatever) seems to be a cartridge that exists just to amuse CAS people or revolver geeks, but in modern strong rifles (still pistol caliber) can do what it's meant for-- namely, blast a deer or 2-legged miscreant with minimal recoil and a fast follow-up. I have yet to chrono my tank loads but they're probably pushing 250 grains at 1300fps. This was cool before it got cool.

 

[KKG]

The .22 Jet should never have left the drawing board. The tapered case is known to back out from the chamber and tie-up the revolver's cylinder. S&W engineers should have predicted this and put the kybosh on the revolver's production.

I believe that the real problem with the "Jet" is that they put "Magnum" on the barrel and too many people tried to boost the cartridge up too far. I've got a couple and as long as I keep them clean and load them to the Factory loadings, I've never had a single Problem. They're also a Kick(mainly because there is NO Kick) to shoot and are incredibly Accurate! They are LOUD and you really need both plugs and muffs but that's All that I can see is wrong with the Gun and Cartridge.

 

[3MTA3]

FN Five seveN
Anything Tokarev for the communist panache