So... What good IS the .25 ACP???

[LPD256]

Oh, I don't know LPD256.

Let's debate something different and open up a thread on .25 ACP versus 9mm. After all the .25 ACP's diameter is only a tenth of an inch smaller than the 9mm's diameter, which is only a tenth of an inch smaller than the .45 ACP.

If the 9mm can be as good as the .45 ACP as it is claimed these days, even though 9mm is a tenth of an inch smaller in diameter than .45 ACP, then would it not follow that the .25 ACP can now be as good as 9mm because it's a mere tenth of an inch smaller in diameter than 9mm?



Isn't that how modern enhanced ballistics work?

Carrying this a bit further, it could then be argued that the .25 ACP is as good as the .45 ACP since .25 ACP can now be said to now be as good as 9mm.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

And to think that you read it first on Smith & Wesson Forum.

I like the way you think. Along the same lines, a.223 coming out of an AR is only .003 larger than a .22LR. If we could just get the media to realize a Marlin 39A and an AR shoot virtually the same round. Therefore AR’s are just as safe as your Grandpa’s squirrel-gun

 

[alwslate]

Any size gun can be a deterrent. A .25 auto is surprisingly loud without
ear plugs. My dad had hunted as a teen but did not as a family man and
owned no guns at all when I was a kid. Around 1955 when I was ten
years old he decided he wanted a handgun. He bought a new Beretta 418
(Panther) .25 auto, got a permit and carried it in his pocket everywhere.
One night after leaving one of the less glamorous bars he liked to
frequent some guy tried to rob him at knifepoint. He told me he pulled
the .25 out of his pocket and fired a round into the ground in front of
the perp. He said the guy begged him to put it back into his pocket
and then ran. No one really wants to get shot with any gun.

 

[Wise_A]

I like the way you think. Along the same lines, a.223 coming out of an AR is only .003 larger than a .22LR. If we could just get the media to realize a Marlin 39A and an AR shoot virtually the same round. Therefore AR’s are just as safe as your Grandpa’s squirrel-gun

I'm using 40-grain Hornady V-Maxes over 27.3 grains of Varget in my 26" barrel'd 700 Varmint. I am saddened to learn it is no more powerful than my bullseye pistol loaded with 40-grain CCI SV.

 

[JayFramer]

Oh, I don't know LPD256.

Let's debate something different and open up a thread on .25 ACP versus 9mm. After all the .25 ACP's diameter is only a tenth of an inch smaller than the 9mm's diameter, which is only a tenth of an inch smaller than the .45 ACP.

If the 9mm can be as good as the .45 ACP as it is claimed these days, even though 9mm is a tenth of an inch smaller in diameter than .45 ACP, then would it not follow that the .25 ACP can now be as good as 9mm because it's a mere tenth of an inch smaller in diameter than 9mm?

Isn't that how modern enhanced ballistics work?

Carrying this a bit further, it could then be argued that the .25 ACP is as good as the .45 ACP since .25 ACP can now be said to now be as good as 9mm.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

And to think that you read it first on Smith & Wesson Forum.

I hope you’re being facetious...

 

[bmcgilvray]

Ya' think?

 

[Buford57]

For whatever purposes the .25 ACP may or may not be useful it excels at starting vehement discussions.

The .25 is slightly larger than my 2-shot High Standard .22 Mag (I won't use the "d word") and slightly smaller than my RM380. That's a gap I don't see a need to bridge. If I replaced the HS, I would be more likely to choose a NAA revolver than a .25.

Personally the only use I find for a .45 ACP is to fight my way to a .470 Nitro Express.