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stroo wrote:Why would you shoot any pocket gun at 25 yards? Pocket guns are meant for up close and personal encounters certainly 7 yards or less and probably more like 3 yards or less.

To check the accuracy and sight registration, of course . . . with a small round like the .32 ACP, accuracy is paramount, as COM hits are much less likely to dissuade a bad guy than a hit in the vicinity of the eye socket . . . and if you have to aim at the BG's opposite ear to make that shot, maybe the pistol isn't so great.

Use your imagination, and I'm sure you can come up with any of a number of plausible scenarios where accuracy at realistic pistol distances matters - a lot.

My "always" gun is an S&W 340Sc. For summer wear, it fits in the right front pocket of my shorts with no problem, and unlike so many small autos, reliability isn't an issue.

I tried a friend's Kel-Tel P32 . . . the pistol was reliable, but with what passes for sights on that pistol I was getting patterns - I won't call them "groups" - at 25 yards that were centered a couple of feet away from point of aim.