I bought a Raven .25 and... I like it :-)

I like mine as well. I like it for it's novelty and history. It has also proven to be reliable and accurate. I beieve I paid $50 a few years back. Fun little gun!



 
my wife had one with the black finish and white grips when we met .she wanted to get rid of it cause she never shoots it but I talked her into letting me keep it for the collection. they are really kinda neat guns though. :)
 
The cheap pot metal guns are fun. I have a HP22a in .22lr, both me and my girlfriend enjoy shooting it. Just turned a 1000 rounds, all is well and still alot of fun.
 
I used to have a Raven 25 back in the 70s. I carried it behind my wallet. I hocked it a few time and I always tell the clerk that I need to get my drinking buddy out. :D

I shot it at the range a few times at 15 yards. Hits the target every time.

The Saturday Night Specials are usually them RG 22s and 38s.
 
The Raven .25 was the pistol we most often took away from "clients" that were on the way to the pokey. There were a lot of shootings with them and a few serious injuries were the result. I had one person shoot himself and when i arrived he was laying on the floor as if expired. A check of the " corpse" found a Raven and a victim with a wet jacket and broken pint of whiskey in his left breast pocket containing the bullet from the Raven. It penetrated one side of the bottle but ran out of poop at that point.
Don't cut them up with a torch as they give off a really weird color of smoke.
 
IMO, the .25 is nigh worthless today. 110 years ago? It had a place given what was capable in manufacturing then.
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It was pretty nigh worthless then, BUT it did have the one advantage it keeps today, besides being cheap. Compared to the same guns in .22LR, the traditional fmj .25acp almost never jams.

Despite the fact that it often fails, it is a gun, and it CAN kill.

As to the term "Saturday Night Special" it goes back a ways, and is very racist in origin (by today's standards) and was originally applied to a certain knife type. The info is out there, I won't repeat it here.
 
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I have studied cutlery for about 50 years, and have never heard "Saturday Night Special" involved with knives in any way- only guns.
 
It was pretty nigh worthless then, BUT it did have the one advantage it keeps today, besides being cheap. Compared to the same guns in .22LR, the traditional fmj .25acp almost never jams.

Despite the fact that it often fails, it is a gun, and it CAN kill.
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Yes, and the lesser chance of jams made me decide that a micro .22 pistol, like the Beretta 21A, wouldn't be a gun I'd trust. It's a cool gun tho, not many .22's out there like it.

While .25 is at times not even as powerful as hot .22 LR, it's just better in a pistol. If there was a choice between the two in a revolver... it'd be a tough choice.

I don't agree that .25 ACP was nigh worthless 100 years ago because if you think back to that time medicine, trauma surgery, etc. was nowhere near as good as it is today, thus getting shot with a .25 or any other bullet had a high chance of causing death. That psychological factor alone would likely cause shock in someone at that time and back then we didn't have people hopped up on insanely mind altering narcotics that they wouldn't feel it. At most they'd be drunk, but I'm sure getting shot would sober someone up pretty quick.
 
When I finally move out of NY in a few months, I am thinking of starting a saturday night special collection. I was actually going to start with one of these since I've heard they're not the worst of the lot.

I'd like to collect at least once of each model from the "Ring of Fire" manufacturers, but then there's all sorts of variants of each...

Still, gotta start somewhere. Should be a cool project.
 
I owned a nickeled Raven .25 a few decades ago. I could not get that thing to jam. I only used FMJ in it, but I fired it side ways, upside down, as fast as I could pull the trigger, it never failed even with the aluminum cased garbage.
 
The info is out there, I won't repeat it here.
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Links would add much needed credibility. Especially since multiple searches turn up nothing but references to cheap handguns.
Inquiring minds want to know.....Or at least mine does.

Been tempted a couple times to buy another 25acp just for grins. But every time I have seen what should be a cheap one, it isn't!:eek:
 
The cheap pot metal guns are fun. I have a HP22a in .22lr, both me and my girlfriend enjoy shooting it. Just turned a 1000 rounds, all is well and still alot of fun.
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:D (we need a thumbs up smiley)

When a Raven grows up does it become a Hi-Point?:D
 
No shame in that TruthTellers, Congrats! :)

I just came home yesterday with two little pocket .380s. An NAA Guardian in the factory lockbox with all the paperwork and three magazines, plus an AMT Backup DAO with two magazines.
Scrap copper money burning a hole in my pocket and I've always had a fondness for the all steel little pocket .380s.
Out the door for a little over $400, I'm not ashamed.

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