6.35 mm Browning

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6.35 mm Browning
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general information
caliber 6.35mm Browning
.25 ACP
6.35 × 15.5mm HR
Sleeve shape Half rim with
pull-out groove
Dimensions
Sleeve shoulder ⌀ 7.02 mm
Floor ⌀ 6.38 mm
Cartridge bottom ⌀ 7.65 mm
Sleeve length 15.55 mm
Cartridge length 22.80 mm
Weights
Bullet weight 3.25 g
Powder weight 0.09 g
total weight 5.50 g
Technical specifications
Speed ​​v 0 230 m / s
Bullet energy E 0 86 y
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The cartridge in caliber 6.35 mm Browning (nominal: .25 ACP or 6.35 × 15.5 mm HR ( H alb R and)) was produced in 1904 by John Moses Browning in collaboration with the US company Union Metallic Cartridge Company and developed by the Belgian state arms factory FN ( Fabrique Nationale ) as a pure pistol cartridge and brought onto the market with the FN model 1906 (or Colt model 1908) self-loading pistol. The cartridge was designed universally and has a half-rim sleeve, which enables it to be used in pistols and revolvers. The bullet of the cartridge is almost exclusively a full jacketed bullet with a lead core encased in tombac . The caliber leads the series of ACP calibers one step lower (below the .32 ACP ). Attempts have been made to develop rapid fire pistols in this caliber, but the results were unsatisfactory for military use.

history

It could not establish itself as a half-rim revolver cartridge: In the first half of the twentieth century, a few smaller manufacturers in Belgium or Spain mostly produced individual items or small series, a few also in Germany, mostly in Suhl . However, the rimmed cartridge has remained the preferred revolver cartridge to this day.

The introduction of the 6.35 mm Browning cartridge worldwide led to almost all weapon manufacturers also constructing these small pocket pistols or some more or less based on the development of JM Browning: The demand for these small weapons was correspondingly high.

During the First and Second World Wars, pocket pistols in the 6.35 mm Browning caliber became popular officer's weapons, at least among staff officers, while others only carried them as a "second weapon" and / or purely as a defense weapon.

With the German police, guns in caliber 6.35 mm Browning were in daily use for almost three quarters of a century, most recently with the female criminal police. It was only with the advent of the 9-mm police pistols in the late 1970s / early 1980s that the last of the small weapons disappeared from the arsenals and were mostly sold on the market.

At the latest with the emergence of the discussion about target ballistics and man-stopping effects of the various calibres in the early 1970s, the 7.65 mm Browning cartridge and the 6.35 mm Browning cartridge with its ballistic properties (260 m / s, 90 J) were considered defective classified in the defense effect.

The cartridge was still used for pocket pistols and declared as a defense weapon, although the target ballistics / stopping effect of a pocket pistol / revolver in caliber .22 lfB with high-speed ammunition and hollow-point bullet is more effective.

Weapons (selection)

  • Bayard
  • Beretta model 20
  • Beretta model 21
  • Beretta model 950
  • Bernardelli Mod. 68
  • Colt 1906
  • ČZ 36 (ČZ 45, ČZ 92)
  • FN Browning model 1906, model Baby (1931)
  • Haenel-Schmeisser M1 1920
  • Korovin
  • Langenhan model 2, 3 and 3a (as a so-called one-hand model)
  • Little Tom 6,35 by Alois Tomiška (Wiener Waffenfabrik)
  • Mauser model 1909, 1910/14, 1910/34, WTP 1 and 2 (abbreviation for pocket pistol)
  • Melior
  • 6.35mm Browning Ortgies pistol
  • Horizontal bar P8 cal. 6.35
  • Roland model 6.35 (largely based on the Browning construction)
  • Sauer & Sohn model 1913, 1919, 1920, 1928
  • Sauer & Sohn model 1919, 1924, 1928
  • Simson model 22 and 27
  • Star model Starlet
  • Steyr model 1909 Pieper
  • Stock model 6.35
  • Taurus PT 25
  • Walther model 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, TP, TPH, rarely PPk
  • Zehna model 6.35

  • FN Browning model 1906

  • Sauer & Sohn model 1913

Other names

  • DWM508
  • GR757
  • 6.35 mm ACP
  • 6.35 mm for self-loading pistol
  • 6.35 x 15.5 mm HR
  • 6.35 × 15.8 Browning pistol
  • .25 ACP
  • .25 ASP
  • .25 Automatic Pistol
  • .25 Colt Automatic
  • .25–6.35mm Auto

variants

In the Soviet Union, a performance-enhanced, i.e. H. sharper version of the 6.35 × 15.5 mm HR produced for the Korowin TK pocket pistol . This cartridge achieved a v 0 of 230 m / s in the TK compared to 200 m / s of the original cartridge .

Further variants in other calibers can be found in Automatic Colt Pistol .

literature

  • Günter Wollert, Reiner Lidschun: Infantry weapons yesterday . (1918-1945). In: Illustrated encyclopedia of infantry weapons from around the world . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89488-036-8 , cartridges, p. 73 .

Web links

Commons : 6.35mm Browning  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIP 6.35 Browning (PDF 94.2 kB) ( Memento from June 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b Günter Wollert, Reiner Lidschun, Wilfried Copenhagen : Rifle weapons (1945–1985) . In: Illustrated encyclopedia of rifles from around the world . 5th edition. tape 1 + 2 . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-89488-057-0 , p. 81 .
  3. ↑ Representation of the Bernardelli Mod. 68 on the manufacturer's website ( Memento of December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ Contribution to Bernardelli pocket pistols - accessed on November 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Sarsilmaz P6 (identical to Bernardelli Mod. 68) , accessed on November 17, 2012.
  6. ^ Brad Miller: Taurus PT-25 Review. In: www.handgunsmag.com. July 24, 2015, accessed April 12, 2016 .