This one should be a 1956. I took it to the range a couple weeks back and ran it at 5yds. Very accurate considering the size and sights. In .22 Short.

I have that same gun except mine is heavily engraved . Stovepipes every round . It's a safe queen .Got this for my "just for fun" gun group.
C1 code puts this at 1957, held up pretty well.
After some cleaning and forcing cone filing and polishing (don't dry fire these!!) ,it shoots well and with some extra punchy shorts it will be a great pocket gun for around the property.![]()
Any other shorts out there?
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I have that same gun except mine is heavily engraved . Stovepipes every round . It's a safe queen .
That little Firecat looks like a clone of the Colt 25 Vest Pocket. Complete with grip safety and everything.Astra made some great little pocket pistols. The pics below are of my mom's "purse gun". I didn't learn that she had it until I was grown and out of the house. It's a .25 acp Astra 200 Firecat that was made in the late 40's as best I can make out. I think one of my uncles got it for mom in the mid-60's.
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I have a Bauer Brothers stainless copy of the Baby Browning. Mine has been 100% with every brand of ammo I've put through it.Had a couple of those, but now only have “Frazer” .25 (a stainless copy of the little Browning Baby). I’m rather good sized, and could not usually get through a magazine without a miss-feed. Thought that the pistol was defective, but two of a buddy’s grand daughters thought it was “cute” and when they shot it it fed perfectly. If you want to use one as a hide-out, likely will want to see if it is reliable in your hands.
Because the 22s are rimfire, they must have a rim. Obvious, right? Rimmed cartridges do not sit right on top of each other. The rims would lock. They must sit in a slant - each cartridge must be slightly forward of the one below it.
With a little bitty Pocket Gun like that, there is not a lot of room to angle the magazine. Using shorts you have room to set them at an angle. The longer 25 ACP, being rimless (all right - semi-rimmed. Sue me) can stack right on top of each other with no problem.
The question that you should be asking is how did Beretta manage to put 22 long rifle in their little bitty pistol. Because nobody else seemed to have figured it out.
Not quite following your "they didn't" statement in regards to Beretta.I'm going with "they didn't" at least to the extent they were able to with the 22 Short and 25ACP.
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I couldn't find my Beretta in 22 Short, but it's the same as the 25 ACP pictured. The Browning really is life sized. That would have been a great one to upsize to 22 lr.![]()
BC38;141341933 Because they DID get the 22LR to work in the Bobcat 21A. I just picked one up last week - haven't had it to the range yet...[/QUOTE said:I hope you have better luck than I did. The one I had worked better with some brands than others but was not reliable with any brand. In my opinion it was only good for self defense against tin cans and paper plates.
The gun did make 2 people happy. The guy that bought it was happy because he really wanted one and I was happy it was gone. Larry
Not quite following your "they didn't" statement in regards to Beretta.
Because they DID get the 22LR to work in the Bobcat 21A. I just picked one up last week - haven't had it to the range yet...
I wasn't aware of be Baby BernadelliBernardelli made a 'Baby' Vest Pocket semiauto. Tiny little thing about the size of a Walther Mod 9
The Bernardelli was made in 25acp, 22Short and also .22Long
But no .22LR
That extra bit of length would require a different magazine and then the opening in the frame for it.
Probably not much of a problem in todays mfg' world but back when many of these were designed and made it was a different world in the factorys.
I had a couple of them in 25acp. Not very reliable the ones I had and had a habit of dropping the disconnector free of the pistol when Taken Down.
They are a pain to make from scratch.
The Astra Cub used to be available with a conversion kit 'slide/bbl/magazine/recoil spring'
in either .22short or 25acp. You could swap parts and turn your pistol from one cal to the other.
IIRC the Colt marked version offered the same conversion kits as well.
Missed a chance to buy a PPk in 25acp for lack of cash.
Not really a Mouse size pistol but a rarity in 25's.
Walther even made some Model PP pistols in 25acp
All Pre-War mfg.
Just a CZ45 25acp on hand right now.