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stumbling over the occasional ".25 vs. .22" rants on this forum, it just appeared to me that these aren't even the weakest (among the common) pistol calibers, since there used to be models in .22 short as well. Which brings up two questions: 1.) As far as I know, the .22 short was originally...

I've seen some pics of Kind of "chamber sleeves" on the internet, still I wonder how it is possible to ignite a rimfire .22 with a centerfire .223 striker...?

Maybe it's just my misconception... But why is it that while the vast majority of semiautos is black (or blued or whatever "dark" finish), a larger portion of the revolver family seems to Feature a stainless steel finish. Is there any possible reason why stainless makes more sense in a wheelgun...

On the international scale, I'm pretty sure its the G17, but what about the US?

Somewhere I have read that the Mossad used special, .22lr rounds with a reduced charge (and, thus, adjusted springs) in order to reduce the sound signature of the Beretta 70s used by its assassins (unfortunately I couldn't retrieve the source). Does anybody have any more information on that...

while there is a lot of talk about .22lr effectiveness, I could nowhere find the actual maximum muzzle energy that is achievable out of a mean length pistol barrel (let's make that 4,5 inches). Any ideas of what we are talking about here? 100 ft/lbs? More? Less? Since HV-loads don't make too...

Has anybody already seen this new piece? Interesting caliber for a more or less pocket gun, yet I quite can't see the use... A .223 out of such a stubby barrel will produce a giant muzzle flash and a petite muzzle energy (out of a 3" barrel hardly 140 ft/lbs which is not even double a .22lr's...

Hey folks, just wondering: Is there some kind of universal adaptor that I can use to put on a normal LED torch (or any kind of laser) on my G17?

it just occurred to me that apart from the several different Glock 22lr conversions, there are no striker-fired .22lr pistols I am aware of. Is that maybe because striker-fired ones lack the second-strike-capacity which is very desirable especially for .22lr? (yet, there are many...

I recently presented myself with a .22lr conversion kit for my G17. I used to have a Ciener, years ago, which was a simple blowback design. Now I have a Uhl system, made in Germany, and very expensive. I haven't tried it out by now, but it did strike me on the first glance that it features kind...

with all the fuss about the beginning of WWI 100 yrs ago, there is of course also a lot on the media about the assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo. He was killed with a FN 1910, 7,65mm / .32 ACP. I just wondered about the makings and calibers of other handguns that made history, be it...

I recently watched "Lone Survivor", an Afghanistan war movie. There were of course a lot of .223 rifles / carbines in action, some of them seemingly suppressed. I just wondered whether suppressing a .223 actually makes sense since you would still have the supersonic crack of the bullet. And even...

Has anyone already tested the CAA Tactical Glock Carbine Kit? Apart from a general opinion on this stuff I particularly wonder whether there is any kind of sealing between the outer housing and the Glock's slide (which seems hard to achieve since the slide has to move...)? I fancy it's not...

I'm not sure whether my observations are true, so I'm curious if any of you comes to the same conclusion: - The .32 acp used to be quite a popular round for semiautos from the 1930ies onward, maybe not as much in The States, but nevertheless. Think of the PPK, e.g. - It appears to me that it...

is there any perceptible difference as far as the boom is concerned between a .22lr and a .25 short-barreled semiauto? I used to own both but being quite cautious with my hearing, I couldn't tell through earplugs and mufflers...

I was able to do some ballistic testing with my handgun on a friend's shooting range and was really surprised about the state of the bullets I retrieved. - I shot approx. 5mm of laminated wood with a stack of paper (my old income tax documents :D ) behind @ ca. 5 meters (ca. 15 ft) - Federal...

I'm not awaiting any zombie apocalypse to be imminent, alas something like a longer blackout, energy shortage or public unrest due to currency turbulences or natural disasters has become more likely in the recent years. Thus, I started to build up a little more on basic supplies, bottled water...

What I wanted to epitomize with the thread title: While there was surely some progress from the first mass-produced pistols of around 1900 to todays super small, poly, double stack and-what-not-else pistols, imho the calibers did not greatly improve from there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not...

obviously another wonder round out of the realm of the so-called PDW (Personal Defence Weapons), this one really surprised me... I don't want to go deeper into the ballistic properties claimed for this round, here is the link: http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/cbj/cbj_crtg.htm Actually, a 9mm-sized...

Alas, there is a lot of anti-gun stuff on the internet (youtube, e.g.). what do you propose: A) Trying to shun such videos, giving them a number of viewers as small as possible (which can be hard given that not in all cases the content is obvious by the title) or, B) watching them, but giving...