I finally got around to taking a picture of this one. It was going to be my "next to the last" gun until that H&R came along.

A North American Arms "mini" 22 LR with the Rodeo winners belt buckle. I got it in case I'm ever attacked by a Grizzly Bear here in suburbs of Richmond. Hey, you never know. It COULD happen.



The belt buckle is too big for me, so it's more of a mounting plaque than anything else. I have fired the revolver and was able to hit the paper target at five yards. Actually it got better once I figured out where to hold the (what pass for) sights, and how to hold the gun at all. I finally settled on using my strong hand trigger finger to hold the gun, and my weak (left) hand to pull the trigger and thumb the hammer back.

The trigger is funny. On the scale it breaks between 4.5 and 5 pounds, which I guess isn't awful for this kind of gun. On the range however, it feels like about 25 pounds, and I thought it was never going to break. Probably because the little gun is hard to hold steady. I just gave up trying to squeeze the trigger, and just pulled it. Oh well, it's meant to be a "get off me" gun at best I suppose. Five yards is probably a long shot, although I watched Hickok45 hitting the 80 yard gong with a 22 magnum version in one of his video's. I ain't Hickok45 though. I was eventually able to keep my shots "in the vicinity" of the POA.

It has surprising recoil. Not painful or anything, it just twists in my hand and I had to reacquire a shooting grip after each shot if I wanted to have any chance of hitting the paper even.

I think if I was going to shoot it much, or carry it for anything, I'd get one of the folding stocks they have for them and have something to get a grip on. That little bird's head is cute, but that's about it.

What's it good for? Well, it's cute. It's a conversation piece I suppose and I can think of a couple of very selective situations where it might be useful as a SD gun. Miight. Well better than crying and begging "please don't hurt me."

I do plan to shoot it some more. It is a fun little thing.

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I have one without the buckle. They are a fun little thing to play with and I shoot mine the same way you shoot yours. Surprisingly pie plate accurate at3-5 yards. Right now it's misplaced amongst other stuff, but is always turns up. Have shoot tw cylinders trough it and it is not something I would shoot regularly nor would I use it for anything other than a "get off me so I can get to my real gun" gun, but it rides well in the pocket of my seer sucker summer suit.

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I have always thought they were cool guns, especially with the buckle holsters. Very nice setup and I hear they are very high quality little guns.

That reminds me of the toy Mattel (?) belt buckle derringer of the early sixties. When mounted in the buckle it wold pop out and fire a plastic bullet if you stuck yer belly out far enough. My problem was that I was too skinny to make it work! Wouldn't have that issue these days.

John

I had one of those without the buckle.

Carried it with CCI Stingers.

It failed to fire when I need it not to, so I got rid of it.

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Richard

I had one of those too, but my problem was the gun would go flying across the room when it popped out. Never did figure out why it wouldn't stay on the buckel. Didn't matter. I was too "husky" as they used to say for the gunbelt, even then.

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I have one with the folding grip. It lives in the chest pocket of my fishing vest. I have found it to be plenty effective on close quarter venomous snakes. Yes the little 22 shot capsules will do a number on snakes. The best part is the holes the tiny pellets leave don't even show when you want to skin and save the hide.

As I said this lives in my fishing vest. One year the wife got all dressed up as a fisherman for Halloween. She wore a plaid shirt, my hip boots, a ball cap, and my fishing vest. She was all dressed up for her retail variety store job. When she got home that evening, she pulled the little NAA revolver from the vest pocket and asked me "what is this". Doh!!! My Bad.

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