WestKentucky
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Today I shot my little derringer a few times. Under the house at 5 yards. I was surprised by the noise of the short barrel mouse gun, even for shooting indoors it was a bit ridiculous. I very quickly determined that accuracy was next to nothing with this thing. As a defensive weapon it’s really a joke. 22 short with no accuracy in a defensive situation is better than nothing, but it’s still a liability. The only honest hope of success is to go point blank shoved against the assaillant and pop off the round. I fully expected this and really only intended the little gun to be a fun toy.
10 rounds of short was enough. My pattern was about a foot at 5 yards. I partially blame the terrible sights, but also the shallow almost nonexistent rifling in the unlined zinc barrel. Between the accuracy and noise I was done with shorts. I grabbed the #1 write drill and the cordless drill. Not worried about a clean chamber because I have already decided to reline it, I took the chamber deeper ever so slightly until a colibri fit. 22lr still will not fit, so there’s no dangerous conditions created.
Colibri ammo is quiet, but not silent. It was much more tolerable on noise, and shot a little bit better, but not much. When I reline this barrel I will probably buy a 22lr liner, and trim the chamber back to roughly what I have now. I don’t want to push LR through this zinc frame, and I thoroughly enjoyed burning a box of colibri. When I get a chance on a nice day I will go after a paper plate and post pics. It’s wet nasty and rainy today and the paper plate got destroyed when I slipped in the mud coming back up from my crawlspace door.
10 rounds of short was enough. My pattern was about a foot at 5 yards. I partially blame the terrible sights, but also the shallow almost nonexistent rifling in the unlined zinc barrel. Between the accuracy and noise I was done with shorts. I grabbed the #1 write drill and the cordless drill. Not worried about a clean chamber because I have already decided to reline it, I took the chamber deeper ever so slightly until a colibri fit. 22lr still will not fit, so there’s no dangerous conditions created.
Colibri ammo is quiet, but not silent. It was much more tolerable on noise, and shot a little bit better, but not much. When I reline this barrel I will probably buy a 22lr liner, and trim the chamber back to roughly what I have now. I don’t want to push LR through this zinc frame, and I thoroughly enjoyed burning a box of colibri. When I get a chance on a nice day I will go after a paper plate and post pics. It’s wet nasty and rainy today and the paper plate got destroyed when I slipped in the mud coming back up from my crawlspace door.