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- From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: .380 Derringer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031527.300@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:36:18 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Cat Factory
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec30.231142.16672@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
- }ksw9324@zeus.tamu.edu (WASHBURN, KENNETH SCOTT) writes:
- }
- }#Has anyone had any problems with the Davis Ind. .380 auto caliber derringer?
- }
- }#Saw it in a gun shop for only $69.00. The .22 magnum derringer was the same
- }#price. At that price it is hard to go wrong. If one were to load the .380
- }#version with Glaser safety slugs, this would be an adequate self-defence pistl
- }
- }Well, they are cast from zinc, with steel barrel sleeves, so I don't know
- }about how well they would stand up to pressure.
- }
- }I also wonder if using Glaser's wouln't _decrease_ the effectiveness
- }of the gun over using hardball. Glasers are designed for low penetration,
- }and .380 is not famous for penetration in the first place.
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- Glasers are also loaded to SAAMI (SAMMI? Damn, I getting senile. (-: )
- maximum pressures (or so their package inserts claim). I don't think I'd
- want to shoot them in something so ... er ... um ... lightly constructed.
- At best, it wouldn't last long on a steady diet of hot loads (but you'd
- need to practice with something approximating your defensive rounds). At
- worst, you could find yourself picking pieces of pistol out of your hand.
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