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Heizer DoubleTap , anybody have any desire to get one?
The website below has a couple links to shot show videoes demonstrating this pocket pistol. If nothing else, it's quite unique.


http://theamericansurvivalguide.com/sho ... -Derringer

Hakaman wrote:Heizer DoubleTap , anybody have any desire to get one?
The website below has a couple links to shot show videoes demonstrating this pocket pistol. If nothing else, it's quite unique.


http://theamericansurvivalguide.com/sho ... -Derringer

My J frame is not much bigger and is better looking and carries rounds of .38 +P

Does this mean you are going to get one, Mr. Greener?

They look interesting, but I'll stick with my TCP738 and S&W442.

Derringer clones don't do much for me. By the way the grips don't say "HO" they are printed "HD" for Heizer Defense.

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Bullseye

I'd like to have one.

My favorite little gun right now is the Beretta model 21 Bobcat in .22lr, and if I can conceal it, the model 3032 Tomcat in .32 ACP.

For a .40 caliber small gun, I like the obsolete Star Firestar, a small, steel-framed automatic. It's kind of heavy for a small gun but it has great shooting qualities, to make up for that.

The DoubleTap looks like a good back pocket or boot gun, a good backup. It doesn't look like it would be much good for plinking though, which is what I always end up doing with the small guns, trying to keep my hand in.

The smaller the gun, the more critical shot placement gets to be so I like to practice by whipping it out and plinking, when I get a chance to.

I can't see myself doing much of that with the DoubleTap. - I'd probably fire a dozen rounds or so with hearing protection when I first got it, to see where it shoots. It doesn't look like much of a plinker though, so that would probably be about all the practice I would get.

It looks awfully loud, which will cut down on the instances of casual plinking.

It's a personal quirk, but I feel a lot more confident with guns that I shoot and clean regularly. - I'm speaking about mechanical reliability and familiarization with the guns handling here, not just practicing for accuracy.

For what it does though, the DoubleTap looks like a great design. Nice and flat, lightweight.

The barrel porting is a toss-up.

You have to wonder how effective the porting will be for a low-pressure round like the 45, but with a short barrel you do tend to get more pressure at the muzzle...

One thing for sure about porting a short barrel gun though, is that it effectively makes the barrel even shorter, reducing velocity on a gun design where the main drawback is low velocity due to a short barrel.

Taking the chamber into account, it looks like about half of the guns barrel is ported.

So the barrel-porting question is something that cannot be determined from the armchair. I'd have to borrow somebody's DoubleTap and try it out for myself before I would consider coughing up big bucks for something like that.

If I couldn't hit a soda can at ten feet with it on the first or second try, I'd have to give it a pass.

Personally, I have to concentrate, and kind of develop a casual attitude about injury to my hand in order to relax enough to shoot heavy-recoiling handguns with tiny grips accurately, and after all that - I expect to be rewarded with a hit.

I would also expect the can to bust and make a soda-cloud, not just end up knocked-over with a hole in it.

If it would bust a soda can at ten feet for me, I'd seriously consider it, as currently I do not have anything like that. The DoubleTap really does look like a good vest pocket, or boot gun.

Reminds me of the liberator pistols we dropped into France during ww2 .......

Not on my list of guns I want.

Some good points brought up here. The main reason for a gun like this is how easily it conceals. I think it has great success in this category, but the compactness takes away in velocity, like charlesb said. I personally would like to have one, but I won't spend the money to get it. I still like my Kahr enough to be quite satisfied in the "pocket gun" category.
haka