Browning 'Baby' .25

[1 old 0311]

Geez is right. Around here that is an EASY $500 gun, in that condition. Got some time? Go to Gunbroker and search the completed sales.

I had a 1914 Colt Vest Pocket .25 some years back. A gunsmith friend of mine was dying of cancer and I wanted to help him out so he did a 100% restoration job on it, including the classic colt blueing, and case hardened the trigger and safety. Ex girlfriend took it. Man I miss that gun.

[xtimberman]

0311,

You made me curious to look up the mfg. date of that Colt Vest Pocket .25. Proofhouse.com says this one was a fairly early one made in 1911. Yesterday, I was carrying it as a companion to the LCP .380 when it dawned on me that they are exactly 100 years apart in age! The LCP was made last year.

Which do you want - a 1/4" drill or a 3/8" drill?


The Colt is noticeably larger and heavier than the Browning .25 we are discussing. Again...size and reliability are what attracts folks to the neat little Browning .25s.

[MOONDAWG]

$300-$500 in my neck of the woods depending on condition of finish and accompanying paraphanailia.

[19and41]

My .25 is a "baby S&W 639". I'd wanted one since first reading about them. It is a little gem.



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[xtimberman]

...I had a 1914 Colt Vest Pocket .25 some years back...Ex girlfriend took it...

I'm not surprised at all!

When you pull out one of these tiny little all-steel "gems" to show off - if any ladies are around, their eyes will light up like they are looking at expensive jewelry - even many of the non-gun ladies! Those boring guns suddenly become sort-of interesting. Show 'em a really fancy one with ivory or mother-of-pearl grips......and the normally-boring you suddenly becomes interesting.....

Just kidding....but it's no coincidence that plenty of women have gut-shot their wayward paramours with these things.

[wewaslim]

In 1969 I was shot in the chest while trying to break up a fight between my friend an another guy. .25 RG, FMC ammo; went through a heavy coat and stuck in my sternum. ER doc pulled it out with forceps, iodine and a band-aid, and I was good to go. If it had been 6" either way, probably would have hit a lung or the liver. I'll always remember the .25. Bill

[1 old 0311]

In 1969 I was shot in the chest while trying to break up a fight between my friend an another guy. .25 RG, FMC ammo; went through a heavy coat and stuck in my sternum. ER doc pulled it out with forceps, iodine and a band-aid, and I was good to go. If it had been 6" either way, probably would have hit a lung or the liver. I'll always remember the .25. Bill

I had a friend, Kurt Kahlo who owned, what at the time, was an Amoco station at 49th and Penn in Indy, his Father has a Jeep dealership in Noblesville. Guy came in to rob the station one night and put one shot from a .25 into his head. He died on the spot.

[DocZeus]

The only .25 Auto I ever had was a brand-new Beretta 950, back in the late 80's.....carried it in a Kramer pocket holster. My BIL at the time, HAD to have it, so I sold it to him for $40 more than I bought it for......a month later, that dumba$$ pawned it for $35, and never went back to get it.

I'd have given him his money back on it, minus the $40.....oh, well.

DocZeus
AKA
David

[Charlie686]

Not a"Baby Browning" But a "Baby Beretta 22A". This was my store pistol when I worked retail years ago. Can be nasty enough with Stinger Hollow Points and is very dependable double action pocket pal.DSCN6712.jpgDSCN6715.jpg

[19and41]

Those "bambinos" just fit he hand so well. I like my Tomcat for that reason.