Dear Friends,
Back when I had my two eight inch Remington Old Army's, I one day had the urge to get a pair of their teeeensy little brothers, the trigger-guardless Pocket Models. I bought a pair of brass framed ones, rationalizing that they took so little powder, What The Hell! Their performance was SO POOR, I threw them into a drawer in disgust, and in the end, GAVE them away to a guy who though they looked,"Cute!"
Their performance was Pitiful! I stuffed as much Holy Black into them as I possibly could, and still get the cylinder to rotate, and fired them at some soft pine planks in a nearby vacant garage. Some of the balls actually stuck in the plank! They were only just embedded deep enough to retain their hold on the wood, and one of them bounced back out of the plank, and slightly bruised my upper left arm. By the next morning the bruise was gone! The accuracy was SO POOR, I was lucky to hit the 8" wide plank from about ten feet! I would say their value as a personal defense weapon was absolutely NIL! To begin with, in a state of excitement, (And if you were going to shoot another human Being, believe me, you WOULD be in a state of excitement!) you would be very lucky to hit a human sized target at ten feet with one, and this may be just as well, for if you DID hit him, you may make him VERY ANGRY, and he may then do you serious harm! In a potential gunfight situation, it would be a little like poking the angry German Shepherd with a sharp stick! The dog would bite the stick in half, and then begin to leave teeth marks ALL OVER YOU!
In the Accuracy Dept., Forget it. Useless for teensy-Weensy Animals, because you'd never hit them with it! Sights are crude, and on the two I had, the trigger pull was so appalling, I had to pull SO HARD to make them go off, that my whole arm was trembling with the effort. They are truly, "Mouse Guns," but the mouse would have to be Bloody Close to have any hope at all of hitting the, "Puir Wee Timorouse Beastie!" as Robbie Burns so aptly described the poor crittur!
About the ONLY reason I can think of for buying one of these totally useless guns, is that you have every other type of Remington they ever made, and feel the desperate need to have a 100% complete collection of the companies Products! I suppose that you MIGHT frighten a "Puir Wee Timorouse Mugger," provided he had absolutely NO KNOWLEDGE of Guns, and was a total Wuss to begin with! My frank advice, save your money and spend it on something that, 1/ You can hit something with, and 2.That will shoot a projectile that will do SOME damage when it hits it's intended Target!
I wasted a WHOLE DAY, TRYING TO HIT THINGS WITH THAT STUPID PAIR OF GUNS! If I can save some of you from doing
likewise, this posting will have been time well spent Of course, as an old Cowhand once said to me in Nevada, "Johnnie, There's folks you couldn't drag into Heaven at the end of a three-quarter inch Lariat, and a 1,300 Lb. Quarter-Horse!" Between you and me, there are few things that won't move for THAT combination!
Johnnie Roper,Alias:Gunslinger9378.
