[Yo-Yo]

Never saw the appeal, but Bond Arms seems to have made quite a niche for themselves.

[Texas Fossil]

-A soldier was shipping out to Iraq and was allowed to take one of his own guns. His wife insisted he take the .45 Double Derringer because he could always have it on his person. In Iraq he was hit by an IED that overturned his Humvee. An Iraqi came up to shoot him through the window and finish him off, but the G.I. pulled the little .45 Double Derringer from his front shirt pocket and killed the Iraqi with it. He dropped the gun as he scrambled to get out of the burning vehicle and it was burned with the Humvee. He recovered the Derringer from the ruins of the burned out vehicle and sent it back to American Derringer where they fixed it for him free.

Now. That is a story. And that is what you call great customer service.

[gnarledmaw]

A guy went to take a leak and was jumped by a moose and a grizzly and took them both out? I would almost think that I would have seen that in every outdoor mag and forum since whenever.

[OldSmaj]

The article is filled with anecdotal crap that probably is not the least bit true.

I mean, a moose...then a grizz?

Uh, huh.

And I was not aware that the Army allowed personal-owned firearms to be carried into theater by individual soldiers, particularly in ones shirt pocket.

Be that as it may, the two-shot derringer is a good final backup piece.

If I were going to recommend one, it would be the Bond Arms with the 2-inch barreled .45 ACP.

Built like a damned bank vault and locks up as tight as one.

Heavy as hell, though.

I machined the front sight off of mine (Gordon, what were you thinking?) and put the small wooden grips on it.

It's a belly gun...just stick it in their belly and pull the trigger.

Now if you want to hunt moose or grizz, though, best to go with the American Derringer.

I think.

[IamConservative]

Wonder how well one could control the recoil on that little pocket rocket?

I’ve been contemplating adding a Mossberg Shockwave in .410 to my home defense. Load it with 0000 buckshot.

[Seruzawa]

I bought a .38 Derringer years ago. I fired only a couple of rounds of .38spec through it. Hurts like hell. I load special low power cartridges for it now. Derringers are a last resort.

[The Pack Knight]

The current crop of ultra-light polymer-framed .32s and .380s with double action only trigger mechanisms are also very hard to hit anything with. There is a more effective alternative available.

Where the heck does this guy get his info? Has anyone ever even made a polymer-framed .32? I've certainly never heard of one, let alone a "crop" of them. The only .32 on the market today I'm aware of is the Beretta Tomcat, which is aluminum-framed and double-action/single-action (and probably a much better pocket gun than this derringer, despite the shortcomings of .32).

Also, there are plenty of .380 mouse guns out there with single-action or striker-fire triggers, like the Glock 42, Kimber Micro, or Sig P238. The Sig is only a half-inch longer and has the same height, width, and weight as the Derringer, but you get 7 rounds of .380 instead of 2 rounds of .45 Colt. If you want .45, you can go an inch larger and get a S&W Shield in .45 Auto, which is considerably more powerful than .45 Colt and you get 7 or 8 of them instead of 2.

The Derringer may be a neat pistol, but the article is bunk.

[mabarker1]

PPPing (Pocket Pistol Ping)

Well isn’t that just the cutest little thing ?