NAA Mini Revolver

[skb12172]

Shot placement, as always, counts.

Unless you've got it shoved up the other guy's nose, consistent shot placement with one of these can be problematic. Like an AK, they tend to shoot patterns more than groups.

True, but the intended use as a "last ditch" option, seems to suggest that is exactly the range for which it was designed.

[randy]

AKA a knife fighting gun.

[McClarkus]

That platform and round is not to be underestimated. Trooper Coates got into a "halitosis" range gunfight on a traffic stop. He fired several .357 rounds into the midsection of the assailant. The assailant fired a round from his NAA that went through Coates's armpit, severing an aorta. Trooper Coates has a piece of highway named after him and the other guy is in a cell.

Shot placement, as always, counts.

I saw that once. An accident I responded to had a guy that hit another vehicle, and the damage was minor but he was dead. It was winter and he had on a down jacket. It was only after a few minutes that i discovered that he had been hit in the armpit with a .22 round because the blood didn't show right away. Turned out that he had been on the bad end of a domestic dispute about 5 minutes earlier.

[Jericho941]

The assailant fired a round from his NAA that went through Coates's armpit, severing an aorta.

IIRC, there is only one of those.

[Weetabix]

The assailant fired a round from his NAA that went through Coates's armpit, severing an aorta.

IIRC, there is only one of those.

They probably meant an artery. The brachial runs right through that area, IIRC.

[Combat Controller]

I have purchased 5 of the .22 magnums and am happy with the accuracy and controllability.

[Aesop]

The assailant fired a round from his NAA that went through Coates's armpit, severing an aorta.

IIRC, there is only one of those.

They probably meant an artery. The brachial runs right through that area, IIRC.

You have both an ascending and a descending aorta.
Surprising no one, they both meet at the heart, and either is immediately accessible from an armpit hit.
Which, as a rule, is non-survivable, even if you were laying on a table in surgery with a trauma team at the point of ignition. About 6-8 pumps, and your heart is running on fumes. As the heart itself draws its own blood supply from backpressure in the aorta, having it all drop to zero pressure means the lack of blood elsewhere isn't much of a problem, because the heart stops beating fairly rapidly at that point too. What senior doctors refer to as one of them there viscious circles. One of those "Faces Of Death" videos, where a politician handed out suicide notes at a press conference, and then ate a .44Mag taken from a handy manila envelope, is fairly illustrative of the concept.(NSFDinner, and this is the edited version.)

That's one of those life mistakes at which you simply don't get a second chance.

[308Mike]

I have purchased 5 of the .22 magnums and am happy with the accuracy and controllability.

And you're using full magnum rounds?? I KNOW what those are like to fire out of a short-barrel Derringer, and they kick like a .38 - and although I would agree with you about their accuracy and control-ability, and when shooting .22 rounds in a back-up, I ALWAYS recommend using .22 MAGNUM - BUT, I've never before held those particular guns while firing .22 Magnums. My OWN High-Standard .22 Derringer, YES - MANY TIMES and it kicks like a .38 (which I also find comforting as the bag guy would also be receiving such the same at CONTACT RANGE). Having 4-5 rounds of the same BOOM as the ones coming out of my Derringer, would make me want to buy/have (MORE of) the same.

I would only hope that revolver could be as reliable as my 2-SHOT Derringer when SHTF. The more moving parts, the more things can go wrong (especially during a fight for your life and if dropped in the mud/puddle/snow/etc - and it would STILL go BOOM when the trigger is pulled).

YMMV!

[Combat Controller]

I have purchased 5 of the .22 magnums and am happy with the accuracy and controllability.

And you're using full magnum rounds?? I KNOW what those are like to fire out of a short-barrel Derringer, and they kick like a .38 - and although I would agree with you about their accuracy and control-ability, and when shooting .22 rounds in a back-up, I ALWAYS recommend using .22 MAGNUM - BUT, I've never before held those particular guns while firing .22 Magnums. My OWN High-Standard .22 Derringer, YES - MANY TIMES and it kicks like a .38 (which I also find comforting as the bag guy would also be receiving such the same at CONTACT RANGE). Having 4-5 rounds of the same BOOM as the ones coming out of my Derringer, would make me want to buy/have (MORE of) the same.

I would only hope that revolver could be as reliable as my 2-SHOT Derringer when SHTF. The more moving parts, the more things can go wrong (especially during a fight for your life and if dropped in the mud/puddle/snow/etc - and it would STILL go BOOM when the trigger is pulled).

YMMV!

Yeah... But I also have 12 oz .357's and snubbie .44 mags that don't bother me too much for the most part. I just have meaty hands I guess.

[Windy Wilson]

Sonofagun, the NAA in either .22 lr or .22 magnum is on the California list of pistols approved for peons -- at least until January 24, 2015.