25 ACP Revolver

[Haggway]

Has anyone seen one like this?

Sorry for the links.



http://s1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/haggway/?action=view&current=IMG_6412.jpg



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[I'll Make Mine]

Looks like some of the Belgian folding revolver designs I've seen. Is it actually marked for .25 ACP or 6.35 Browning? Judging by the gap between cylinder and frame at the rear, it might have been originally made for some rimmed .25 round (6.5 Bergmann Rimmed, for instance, which predates .25 ACP by 14 years); I'd do some careful research before trying to fire it with modern .25 ACP ammunition. And is that a crack in the trigger, just where it comes out of the frame?

[Murphy]

Congratulations,

Have a look at this.

http://www.horstheld.com/0-Oury.htm

Murphy

P.S. Several examples online are showing up in the $3,000 to $,3,500 range, depending on condition of course.

[MtGun44]

Looks like the one Murphy showed the link to is 25 rimfire, not .25 ACP.

Better be careful with that thing - if you shot someone with it it could cause
an infection. :bigsmyl2:

Bill

[Haggway]

Better be careful with that thing - if you shot someone with it it could cause
an infection. :bigsmyl2:



Now thats funny.

I should add the cylinder has shoulders cut to keep the cartridge from slipping out of the cylinder. There isn't a caliber mark I can find.

[I'll Make Mine]

Hmm. If there's a headspace ledge in the chambers, then it might well have been made for .25 ACP -- that style revolver was made into the 1920s or later, well after .25 ACP was introduced. The tricky part would be checking that a round was headspacing on the case mouth rather than the semi-rim; the 1894 vintage 6.5 mm Bergmann I mentioned above was also made in a rimless version that would have headspaced on the mouth like 9 mm Parabellum (or like .380 and .25 ACP are supposed to and don't always).

The linked page above has a 5.5 mm rimfire (probably not compatible with modern .22 LR, more like Velo Dog case dimension, only shorter) and a 6.35 that the page author claims is .25 ACP -- but the firing pin in the 6.35 certainly does look like it's in a rimfire position. Haggway, is yours rimfire or centerfire? I suspect you'll have trouble finding 6.35 mm rimfire ammunition...

[Haggway]

Its a center fire. 25 acp chambers properly. I have thought about makeing some mousefart loads for it.

[ddixie884]

Hamilton Bowen built one on a J-frame S&W that used moon clips...........

[I'll Make Mine]

Its a center fire. 25 acp chambers properly. I have thought about makeing some mousefart loads for it.

Cool -- .25 ACP was smokeless from the get go (introduced in 1916 as 6.35 mm Browning). If the rounds chamber without slop, they aren't 6.5 Bergmann (larger head and longer case than .25 ACP). You should be able to chamber a fired case and see from the front of the cylinder that it's resting on the case mouth. If so, any powder you'd normally use in .25 ACP could be cut in half to produce a light load.


Hamilton Bowen built one on a J-frame S&W that used moon clips...........

Did they have really, really thick chamber walls, or did they hold 8-9-10 rounds?! :kidding:

[ddixie884]

6-shot, used a J-frame .22 cylinder. I don't remember if he rebored a .22 barrel or relined a .32..........