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Old 10-11-2015, 07:36 PM
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Picked these up today and don't know why, maybe because they were shiny , Maybe I'll use them for key fobs. BAUER .25 ACP
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I have a great fondness for the Browning Baby and its various clones. I have a PSP-25 myself. Wonderful little pocket guns.
The Bauer guns are excellent pistols. Nothing to be ashamed of there.
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Picked these up today and don't know why, maybe because they were shiny , Maybe I'll use them for key fobs. BAUER .25 ACP
Those would make excellent little his and hers key fobs !!
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Before you do anythig serious with them, run some rounds through them. The Browning Baby and its clones have a bad reputation for failures to feed.
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I own a Bauer myself..and my pal had a Frasier which was the same gun and factory just post Bauer...I told him I wanted it..but he traded it!

Oh well..Just a .25acp..too small physically and caliber-wise to suit me. However back in the day many a corpse was created with a .25 auto 'cause folks didn't realize it wasn't deadly!
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Beautiful little pistols and fun plinkers. I had a couple of Bauers way
back when they were in production. Fun to play with but I wouldn't
carry one as a primary. Reliability of mine didn't quite campare to the
Astra Cub and Beretta 950.
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If they run reliably, they beat a .22 by a darned sight! You can actually load a .25 up to 945 fps and 99 fpe with 2 grains of Bullseye. This is considered a "nuclear" load for the little .25, so shoot these very sparingly!

I make NO guarantee that your firearm can handle this load, but I did take it from a reliable source. IT COULD BE TOO MUCH PRESSURE FOR YOUR HANDGUN!
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I had a Bauer .25 that a coworker brought to work disassembled in a brown paper bag about 25 years ago, gave him $10 for it.
Lucky for me all the pieces were there and I carried it for quite awhile.
I had to aim low, as it shot high, but I killed a cottontail with it and it always functioned well for me.
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I own a sweet little double action Iver Johnson .25acp that is reliable as all get out. It's not my primary carry gun but it makes a nice little BUG.
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Picked these up today and don't know why, maybe because they were shiny...
I, too, am often attracted to bright shiny objects. Those are pretty.
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My little Bauer was well used when I got it...the factory mags must be fairly soft sheet metal as the factory mag had dents front and back from the cartridges beating back and forth...wouldn't reliably feed or extract.

A new blue Baby Browning mag helped...and later I bought a new chrome Baby Browning extractor which fixed the occasional failed extraction. I also 'fixed' the original mag..pulled the follower and spring out and made a mandrel out of a piece of strap-iron so I could peck the cartridge dents from the body. So if anybody asks..Baby Browning mags and parts will work in a Bauer....
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My last year of college (1960--I took five years due to transferring) I worked evenings as a radio engineer and jazz disc jockey. The station was within easy walking distance of the campus, and as I went back I'd often stop and talk to the night watchman. He carried a .38 snubby, until one night I saw a little Baby Browning on his hip. I asked why, and he said "I was afraid if I had to shoot the .38 I'd kill a kid, so I swapped it to my son for this."

He showed me the little .25, and it hadn't been cleaned since the Coolidge administration. I offered to cleanit for him, and did.

The next day I learned he had accidentally shot himself in the arm with it. He said, "It looked so nice and shiny I was just playing with it it, and..."

Good think it wasn't a 9mm.
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When I was in my teens we had a 6 foot 2 or 3 inch bully that wemt from bar to bar. He loved to pick on folks and could back it up.

He had one litfle fella scared to death. If the little gent was in a bar the bully would rough him up.

one night the bully grabbed the little guy and lifted him by the shirt.

Everyone heard multiple shots ring out. The bully dropped the little guy ran to his truck and drove to the ER.

The little 25 auto held 6 or 7 rounds. All stopped in his abdominal muscles. No charges against the little guy, defense.

The bully turned over a new leaf. Quit running bars, started horse trading. We knew him well. My bro and I would break and train his green ones so they would sell.

Pretty neat ride our horses across 3 farms, swim the river go his farm and get to ride every horse he bought.
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