Fairly Rare Model of 1920 Ortgies .25 Pistol

[1srelluc]

I found this one today at a local shop.....Model of 1920 Ortgies pistol in .25 acp in factory nickel.

While the blued Ortgies pistols are not scarce at all the factory nickel ones are.

They were upgraded with Turkish walnut stocks and heat-tempered blue trigger, extractor, and take-down button.

I was lucky as this one came with a spare OEM mag.

I have a blued example of the same series.

Pretty neat history with them too.

The Ortgies Pistol

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

a .25 pistol is more of a threat than deadly

 

[The Duke]

a .25 pistol is more of a threat than deadly

I wouldn't want to catch one.
Is there any really kind of "good" .25 ACP gun?

 

[The Duke]

I think 1s got about the best one there is. I don't even wanna look at these things no more.
That's a whole lotta ugly in the .25 ACP area. Old German ones are probably the best.

 

[1srelluc]

a .25 pistol is more of a threat than deadly

Hornady makes a HP round that get 12" of penetration and expands to .32 cal.....Oddly enough it feeds well in everything I've tried it in.....I'd not want to be hit with it.

 

[1srelluc]

I wouldn't want to catch one.
Is there any really kind of "good" .25 ACP gun?

Beretta, Colt, Browning, Walther, to name a few.

I've yet to have an Ortgies fail. Quality is quality.

Still looking for a decent .380 example.

 

[odanny]

Is that what the original James Bond carried (Sean Connery) until he realized he needed more stopping power?

 

[1srelluc]

Is that what the original James Bond carried (Sean Connery) until he realized he needed more stopping power?

Berretta .25.

James Bond used a Beretta in the first five novels of the series by Ian Fleming. Bond's pistol is described as "a very flat .25 Beretta (the model number is never specified by Fleming) automatic with a skeleton grip," (i.e. side grip panels removed – frame only), and a threaded barrel to support a suppressor.[3] At the end of the fifth novel, From Russia, with Love, Bond is unable to draw the Beretta at a critical moment when its suppressor catches on the waistband of his trousers, and is very nearly killed as a result. This incident leads to an order from his superior officer, M, to start carrying a new duty weapon in the opening chapters of the sixth novel, Dr. No. Major Boothroyd, the MI6 armorer and "the greatest small-arms expert in the world" in M's opinion, insists that Bond trade it for a weapon with more stopping power. Bond is issued a 7.65mm Walther PPK,[4] and a Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight revolver for situations where he needs more power than the PPK can offer. He carries both guns during a mission in Jamaica for this novel, but only fires the S&W; in subsequent stories, he relies on the PPK. In the film adaptation of Dr. No, the first in the series, Boothroyd only offers the PPK (in the scene, a larger Walther PP stands in for the mentioned PPK) and Bond reluctantly turns in his Beretta 1919 or 318 or 418* (a larger M34 is standing in for the 1919/318/418).[5] -Wiki